Selected Articles from
The Gull Archives

If you would like to submit an article for The Gull, please contact the Chronicler.

Trivial Pursuivant

(A Shameless rip-off of other History quizzes)

By Wulfric of Creigull

Not cheating is a "Moral Imperative”

Part 1: Easy

1) What is a goutte?

a) a heraldic monster, a cross between a camel and a sea lion
b) the heraldic form of a teardrop
c) a painful disease
d) a stylized pair of water bags on a yoke
e) a heraldic dolphin.

2) Southern Shores' charter dates back to:

a) AS III
b) AS IV
c) AS VI
d) AS VII
e) When the ink dries

3) Which of these is NOT a period name?

a) America
b) Original
c) Fiona
d) Neon
e) Marie

4) Who were the Goliards?

a) People who made a living teaching kicking games
b) Playwrights who founded a college
c) Traveling minstrels in France
d) Heretics banned by Pope Benedict XII
e) a family of Burgundian Dukes.

5) Which Christian Theologian got his lover pregnant and was emasculated by her angry relatives?

a) Thomas Aquinas
b) Hilderbrand of Saona
c) Peter Abelard
d) John of Damascus
e) Stephen Langton

6) Which Southern Shores relic dates back the farthest?

a) the bird
b) The pavilion
c) the brick
d) The box
e) Paul of Bellatrix

7) What was the first ever town the English captured using artillery?

a) Harfleur
b) Belfast
c) Aachen
d) Paris
e) Ingeborg

8) Who was the cathedral of Cartres dedicated to?

a) Saint Bernard
b) Christ
c) Saint Louis
d) Saint Peter
e) Virgin Mary

9) Which king had Diane de Poitier as a mistress?

a) Henry IV
b) Henry II
c) Louis IX
d) Louis VI
e) Charles VII

10) Who were the Stylites?

a) Christians at the Mongol court
b) Tax collectors for Baldwin I
c) Hermits who sat on Platforms
d) a religious order founded by Innocent III
e) Middle class merchants obsessed with clothes

Part 2: Medium

11) Where is Creigull located?

a) in Staffordshire, England
b) Near Lubeck Germany
c) a suburb of Berlin
d) by Canterbury, England
e) next to some Welsh town with too many consonants in its name

12) Which of these is NOT a period last name?

a) Motel
b) Ascii
c) sca
d) Death
e) Sneezum

13) What does "John Barleycorn must die" refer to?

a) Beer making
b) the execution of an anti royalist conspirator
c) tile decline of a philosophical movement
d) burning of tile fields after the harvest
e) a somerset Herald referring to a man whose arms were color oil color

14) In what year did the events chronicled in the Song of Roland take place?

a) 632
b) 778
c) 808
d) 861
e) 923

15) Which author first mentioned the omelette a la provençale?

a) the Venerable Bede
b) Gregory of Tours
c) Augustine
(d)Anselm of Aosta
e) Abbot Irmino

16) Which of these lending practices was forbidden by medieval theology?

a) charging interest if a loan repayment was late
b) selling pawned items to the original owner at a profit
c) lending money at interest if the proceeds went to charity
d) taking out a loan with interest if it was backed by a piece of land as collateral
e) selling an IOU at a discount

17) Which "mayor of the palace" became king?

a) Pepin
b) Childeric
c) Carloman
d) Louis the German
e) Charles the Bald

18) According to the Heretical Cathar sect, which of' these was NOT acceptable?

a) eating meat
b) adultery
c) fasting until death by starvation
d) blessing bread to make it pure
e) God and Satan viewed as equals

19) Under which dynasty did feudalism combine vassalage (personal fealty) and benefice (land grants)?

a) Merovingians
b) Carolingians
c) Hohenstaufens
d) Capetians
e) Plantegenets

20) What was the original "treat" of Halloween?

a) sticky buns
b) fruit
c) bread
d) ale
e) scones

Part 3: Really Obscure

21) What was Tirant Lo Blanc's highest rank at the time of his death?

a) Emperor of Barbary
b) Knight of the Garter
c) Marquis of Ligana
d) Admiral of the Greek Empire
e) Admiral of the Western Navy

22) Which saint was martyred by being disemboweled by a cow?

a) Wulfric of Haselbury
b) Eadmund
c) Blandine
d) Blasie
e) Apollonia

23) How long did it take to build Mont Saint Michel?

a) 115 years
b) 132 years
c) 78 years
d) 102 years
e) 174 years

24) Which humble maid had her queen sent to a convent and then murdered, subsequently married the king, killed some of the princes and assassinated several other kings?

a) Brunhild
b) Galswintha
c) Radegund
d) Audovera
e) Fredegund

25) In the 10th 13th centuries, an oath of fealty frequently contained which of these elements?

a) doing homage (clasping one's hands between the lord's)
b) standing on a casket of relics
c) a ceremonial kiss
d) a written contract
e) all of the above

26) Who was the second ruler of independent Normandy?

a) William Longsword
b) Thietmar of Merseburg
c) Robert of Flanders
d) John the Younger
e) Peter Ermines

27) Which of the following does NOT appear in the Dictatus Papae of Gregory VII?

a) the Roman Church was founded directly by God
b) only the Pope can use the imperial insignia
c) when speaking on Church matters, the Pope is infallible
d) the Pope can depose emperors
e) the Pope may absolve subjects from unjust fealty

28) What is "meslin"?

a) a kind of fabric
b) a kind of bread
c) a blend of tea
d) local currency used in Canterbury
e) the term for pottery apprentices

29) When was the acrostic first used (as far as we know)?

a) 731
b) 819
c) 853
d) 1074
e) 1203

30) Which King of the West fought in Southern Shores' Warlord Tourney as "Bumble D. Bee"?

a) Terence of Holliday
b) Christopher of Houghton
c) Frederick of Holland
d) James Greyhelm
e) Thomas the Incomplete

Answers

NOTE:

Copyright of each article belongs to the original author. Reproduction rights are not given by virtue of their appearance here.

If you wish to reprint any of these articles, in whole or in part, in any medium, you must first get permission from the the author. Please contact the Chronicler, who will forward your request to the appropriate party and respond to you.