Packet 11: Bonus 15
This thinker commented that “Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker who also quipped that “the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” This author of “An Essay on Universal History” frequently communicated with Frederick the Great.
ANSWER: Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]
[10e] Voltaire wrote a history of this country’s King Charles XII. This country’s earlier Queen Christina nominally moved its capital to Stockholm.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Sweden
[10m] The protagonist of Voltaire’s novel Candide arrives in the ruins of this 1755 disaster, after which the Marquis of Pombal oversaw the reconstruction of a capital city.
ANSWER: 1755 Lisbon earthquake [or Great Lisbon earthquake]
<European History — Sam Macchi> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |