4:30 The owner of the Shackleton Cat (without giving the answer away) was Harry McNish who is buried in Wellington, NZ. There is a small statue of the cat on his grave, added in 2004.
Greetings from Australia. Really loved this. Any possibility quizzes like this could become regular features? Please, pretty please, she begs. Sooooo much better than the drivel on tv. Happy new year everyone.
I go to Georgia State and have had the pleasure of hearing Nick Wildings story from himself. He is banned from the Vatican for making a similar discovery towards one of their Galileo documents. Super cool guy!
Susannah Lipscombe is so ridiculously beautiful. She could have stepped straight out of a painting by Millais or Waterhouse. 😍 Really enjoyed this - more quizzes please!
In honor of the Pedants, I have to point out the E in the Japanese Edo period is pronounced like the E in Edward. Good content though. Looking forward to more.
The question about the pope, she got right. The pope has always claimed to be infallible in matters of faith and doctrine, claiming the Holy Spirit guides him, but it was only until 1870 that the teaching of infallibility was made doctrine, meaning that it was something to be believed by every Catholic and was not open to debate.
I enjoyed this, thanks. Could you add proper subtitles to videos, please? Auto-generated subtitles often don't get names right. For example, "Judas Caesar" instead of "Julius Caesar" and "ciao chesku" instead of "Ceaușescu" in this video
I do hope that they read up on the answers that they've missed, because history is fascinating. Diogenes lived an extremely interesting life: He debased coins with his father (that was the first clue) until he was exiled from his birthplace Sinope, which was regarded as a more extreme punishment than death. Then he went to Athens and became an ascetic social critic who spoke out when people relied on blind faith and traditions rather than used their heads. Later he was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Crete, where he is supposed to have mocked Alexander to his face. The Palace of the Parliament is also very interesting. Ceausescu's megalomania was so huge that it boggles the mind. More than 700 architects, 5,000 soldiers and 100,000 "volunteers" worked on its building during which they've levelled 7 square kms of the old city centre. Today it houses both the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, an office for the Regional Southeast European Cooperative Initiative Centre for Fighting Transborder Crime, plus many governmental organisations hold their events there and still 70% of it is unused.
I was wondering if the Ceausescu palace would come up when they started the 'how many rooms' round. Wasn't it built as his personal palace though? Heating bills must be a nightmare :)
The thing about Polish cavalry charging German tanks is actually kinda true. Initially they charged a German infantry position but they didn't realise there was German armour behind the infantry, who then drove the cavalry back
That's hardly true then. They didn't charge tanks, they charged infantry, and in that particular engagement they successfully routed the German infantry which is why the tanks got involved.
It just amazes me that less than 30 year after Columbus and his spanish crew landed in San Salvador, Magellan was in the Philippines . Please knock the spanish for all their atrocities along their long maritime history, but those dudes could sail!
Erm, pedant alert! I'm sorry but Magellan was Portuguese, not Spanish. Columbus was Italian, not Spanish although he was funded by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabella of Castile. Spain didn't exist then, they were separate kingdoms which only united to form Spain in 1715, although the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella was the first important step to unification, uniting the 2 largest kingdoms. Change the Spanish to Iberian & I'll agree 100% with all you've said. 🙂
@@angelaburrow8114 Italy wasn't a thing until late 1800s. So technically speaking, Columbus was "German" as Genoa was, in theory, still part of the Holy Roman German Empire. If he was born in Genoa, of course... 🤔🤔🤔
I could really go for more of these, they are informative to an extent and engaging. Hope to see more of these!
Agree, very well put together! Loved the format & questions.
monthly quiz!
I don’t think I can compete with the level of knowledge that the History Hit team have but I’ll certainly give it a go
it's more about recent developments in historical scholarship
I just like to listen and try to retain some new knowledge. I dont hold up against people this smart in any subject. 😂
This rocks and I want it this format to be a regular appearance on the channel!
Nicely done Dan, very entertaining and everyone was a good sport. Hope to see it again next year.
4:30 The owner of the Shackleton Cat (without giving the answer away) was Harry McNish who is buried in Wellington, NZ. There is a small statue of the cat on his grave, added in 2004.
This could NOT have been more fun. Thank you so much for a major bright spot in 2023. Take care and Happy New Year to us all. DA
This was so fun! Do it more often!
Greetings from Australia. Really loved this. Any possibility quizzes like this could become regular features? Please, pretty please, she begs. Sooooo much better than the drivel on tv.
Happy new year everyone.
Could we please do this again next year? Highly entertaining! Thank you for all of your efforts...Much appreciated!
p.s. More Alice, please!!
I go to Georgia State and have had the pleasure of hearing Nick Wildings story from himself. He is banned from the Vatican for making a similar discovery towards one of their Galileo documents. Super cool guy!
This was so much fun! A monthly quiz?
This was quite fun to watch. Happy New Year to the History Hit Fam
Aww this was great! Thanks for another year of great facts and things I didn't know. Happy New Year History Team!
Now that was ENTERTAINING! thank you.
Lots of fun! Love seeing people whose podcasts I listen to all the time!
Very enjoyable watch!
that was great. wish we had one of these a week
This was soooo much fun!! More please!
Great fun! Happy New Year to all at History Hit, and all viewers and subscribers. 🌟👍🎉
The collective noun for a group of historians is ''an argument".
Well done guys, and have a sexy new year.
This - and everyone involved with it - was excellent. More!
Fantastic! Enjoyed this so much and well done to the Pedants 😄👏🏻👏🏻
I really enjoyed that quiz. Thank you all involved. 🙂
Oh man what a reading room that would be!!
Extremely enjoyable&Interesting. Learnt a lot. Worth watching multiple times if I can fit it in what with watching more superb History Hit shows.
Tristan Hughes is my favorite
This was brilliant.
Really enjoyed that thank's folks. Happy New year
Thank you for this quiz game, was very entertaining and engaging to watch. I feel we got to know our historian hosts a little more too.
This was fabulous!! More please!!
Magnificent set. I want that library! Happy New Year!
This was a load of fun! I wouldn't, however, want to be in competition with Prof. Lipscombe.
Susannah Lipscombe is so ridiculously beautiful. She could have stepped straight out of a painting by Millais or Waterhouse. 😍
Really enjoyed this - more quizzes please!
A lot of fun, and I learnt new things. Thanks!
Really enjoyed this!☺️
This is fun!!
Happy New Year 🎊🎊
Great fun quiz!😀 Also particularly nice of Flourish and Blotts to let you record the quiz in their shop
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Why Does TH-cam Turn down the volume on interesting stuff?
This was fun, I think you guys all have great chemistry
Thank you amazing people. Happy holidays. XO
That was great! Thanks 👏🏻👌
In honor of the Pedants, I have to point out the E in the Japanese Edo period is pronounced like the E in Edward.
Good content though. Looking forward to more.
Fantastic!
Just commenting for the engagement very fun quiz video
More please! Happy New Year!
Love it keep it up as you would a ball
what a fantastic, seasonal quiz show
yep, wife and I loved this.
Suzy and Alice are the ultimate
This was fun!! I hope there’s another one! Team Alice! lol
My husband and I were going head to head on this, (him a past ships captain, me a European historian). So much fun! Thanks!
Nice to see what Matt Lewis and the Tristorian look like.
Loved it.
Great fun!
This is really entertaining.
Better than anything on mainstream tv..
I got Ivan the terrible,
Did anyone else get a question right that the team didn’t get then feel like a history genius?
Just me…
This game show should be more of a regular feature it's interesting competitive informative and fun
ANOTHER OF THESE!!!
Pls.,feature quizzes.
21:30 - Made famous...by Sejanus.
The question about the pope, she got right. The pope has always claimed to be infallible in matters of faith and doctrine, claiming the Holy Spirit guides him, but it was only until 1870 that the teaching of infallibility was made doctrine, meaning that it was something to be believed by every Catholic and was not open to debate.
Great fun, this!
And, oh my, Suzannah is such a beautiful woman. Brains & beauty. 😍
OMG! Normally on quizzes I am terrible but I actually got lots right on this one!
That was cool and this set is amazing!
I enjoyed this, thanks. Could you add proper subtitles to videos, please? Auto-generated subtitles often don't get names right. For example, "Judas Caesar" instead of "Julius Caesar" and "ciao chesku" instead of "Ceaușescu" in this video
This is great fun, thank you. :)
do a quiz next year!
I do hope that they read up on the answers that they've missed, because history is fascinating.
Diogenes lived an extremely interesting life: He debased coins with his father (that was the first clue) until he was exiled from his birthplace Sinope, which was regarded as a more extreme punishment than death.
Then he went to Athens and became an ascetic social critic who spoke out when people relied on blind faith and traditions rather than used their heads.
Later he was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Crete, where he is supposed to have mocked Alexander to his face.
The Palace of the Parliament is also very interesting. Ceausescu's megalomania was so huge that it boggles the mind. More than 700 architects, 5,000 soldiers and 100,000 "volunteers" worked on its building during which they've levelled 7 square kms of the old city centre.
Today it houses both the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, an office for the Regional Southeast European Cooperative Initiative Centre for Fighting Transborder Crime, plus many governmental organisations hold their events there and still 70% of it is unused.
I was wondering if the Ceausescu palace would come up when they started the 'how many rooms' round. Wasn't it built as his personal palace though? Heating bills must be a nightmare :)
I suspect the heating bill doesn't ammount to much where he is !
At 5000 years ago, would Doggerland (or any portion thereof) still have been extant? Referring to approx. 2 min. in.
Literally my dream come true would be to spend an extended pub night with this crew
I really love this 🙏
Good show ,I did ok
Nice way to enjoy a late breakfast, athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh from Ireland.
Great quiz
and some amazing vintage synths in the background.
Where was this filmed?
That was entertaining, and informative. Thank you! May your New Year be bountiful.
Fantastic stuff
I actually knew several of these.
thank you , see you in 23
The order is second and last but one
Great format.
"died without product" 😂
Damn! Is that Harry and Merkle?
The thing about Polish cavalry charging German tanks is actually kinda true. Initially they charged a German infantry position but they didn't realise there was German armour behind the infantry, who then drove the cavalry back
That's hardly true then. They didn't charge tanks, they charged infantry, and in that particular engagement they successfully routed the German infantry which is why the tanks got involved.
Lovely
The lack of Dan Jones in this makes me sad. At least Susannah is here
well done
that was fantastic thank you
fun
Very good! Heartening that I could on a very few questions get it. Even better when my bad guesses mirrored theirs! Great fun!
Yay, so many more NON-American events,whew. Like Graham Norton , but without the swearing. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
When I hear..I killed my oldest son my mind goes to Ivan the terrible . Enjoyed it so much. There should be more of these.
apparently the quiz is just ring in till you come up with the right answer
What’s with all the musical gear piled up behindvtge cameras?
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Why are all these history buffs so ;\much more beautiful than myself (a mediecalist)?
Awesome awesome stuff!
Thanks!
It just amazes me that less than 30 year after Columbus and his spanish crew landed in San Salvador, Magellan was in the Philippines . Please knock the spanish for all their atrocities along their long maritime history, but those dudes could sail!
Erm, pedant alert!
I'm sorry but Magellan was Portuguese, not Spanish. Columbus was Italian, not Spanish although he was funded by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabella of Castile. Spain didn't exist then, they were separate kingdoms which only united to form Spain in 1715, although the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella was the first important step to unification, uniting the 2 largest kingdoms.
Change the Spanish to Iberian & I'll agree 100% with all you've said. 🙂
Colonisation civilised the countries where it took hold
@@angelaburrow8114 Italy wasn't a thing until late 1800s. So technically speaking, Columbus was "German" as Genoa was, in theory, still part of the Holy Roman German Empire. If he was born in Genoa, of course... 🤔🤔🤔
surely something one year old cannot be considered history...