Show how smart you are! Apolyton History and Science quiz!

[Vesayen]

Heres how it works: One person asks a history or science question, and the first person to get it right(the person who asked it has to confirm it) in turn gets to ask a question of his own. Please try to keep them relativly reasonable.


Heres the first question .

In what country was the first almost complete neaderthal skeleton found, and what was the skeleton named?

(HUGE Hint-it was in the town of La Chapele)

[Boris Godunov]

Sudan!

[Vesayen]

wrong .

[Dauphin]

Wales, Spink.

[MBD]

Neanderthal Man was found in Aix-La-Chapelle France

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Wales, Spink.

[Immortal Wombat]

France. Can't find a name for it though...

[Boris Godunov]

I got one:

Which famous ruler's body exploded at his own funeral?

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by MBD
Neanderthal Man was found in Aix-La-Chapelle France

No ones going to know the name......so you get it for knowing the country heh.

BTW if your curious the name was "The old man of La Chapelle" because he was deformed from alsheimers(spelling?).

MBD, ask a question about history or science.

[markusf]

The one in whales was only 10,000 years old, and they found a living decendent of that guy.. which is pretty damn amazing.

[MBD]

I'm not sure I'm going to state this exactly right, but what exactly happened to those officials as a result of being thrown out the window in the Defenestration of Prague?

[Zoid]

Defenesteration? I couldn´t find it in my dictionary. What does it mean? And when did this take place?

[Paul Hanson]

Originally posted by markusf
The one in whales was only 10,000 years old, and they found a living decendent of that guy.. which is pretty damn amazing.

It was in Cheddar, England. DNA testing revealed that Adrian Targett, a man who lived a quarter of a mile from where "Cheddar Man" was found, was a direct descendant.

Defenestration means "to throw out of window". Presumably, the officials in question died from being thrown out of said windows.

[MBD]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson

Defenestration means "to throw out of window". Presumably, the officials in question died from being thrown out of said windows.

It happened in ~1618, at the start of the Thirty Years War. And, strangely enough, being thrown out the window didn't kill them. Guess why?

[Paul Hanson]

They were thrown out of ground floor windows?