Oops ! Forgot about this :
Answers follow : (Q4 and Q6 remained unanswered)
Trivia Quiz : Some myth, some history, lots of mystery
Q1) This Order was created around 1100 AD. Its members were sworn to poverty, chastity and obedience, but rapidly acquired positions of immense wealth and power. They are also considered the first international bankers and pioneered the practice of assigning credit ratings to their clients.
Who were they ? The Knights Templar
Q2) Greek Myth :
Phaeton was the son of Apollo (Helios), the Son God. Clymene was his mother, and she was mortal. A friend of Phaeton's said that Phaeton could not be the son of Apollo because he had no proof of this claim. Phaeton went to his mother, and demanded to know if he were really the son of Apollo, to which she replied that he was. Unsatisfied with this answer, Phaeton went to Apollo and demanded to know if what his mother had said was true. Apollo confirmed that Phaeton was his son, but Phaeton still did not believe him. Apollo promised to grant him anything that he might want. And shortly afterwards, Phaeton declared that he would like to drive Apollo’s chariot ( the chariot of the Sun, that provided Earth with light and heat). After Apollo spent a long time begging his son not to demand this, he succumbed to his desire. Being young and weak, Phaeton was unable to control the mighty horses. The horses ran unchecked, going too high at first and then going so close to the Earth that they scorched the land and set a great forest on fire.
What did this fire result in ? The Sahara Desert (also, the reason why Africans are dark skinned)
Q3) When he was born (a Prince in a mountain kingdom), a soothsayer predicted that he would become either a great king or a great saint. Hoping to ensure the former, his father, the King, kept him confined to the Palace grounds, never letting him see the outside world. One day, however, he secretly got out, and saw four disturbing sights. They were an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a wandering beggar (or holy man). He had never seen the unfortunate side of life and what age, sickness, death, and poverty can do to a person. These scenes caused him to go on the Great Departure in search of a new meaning of life.
By what name (meaning ‘the enlightened one’) do we know this Prince ? The Buddha
Q4) ‘BIGOT’ was a WWII code word used by the Allies. What did it refer to and what is its origin ?
BIGOT was a 'top secret' classification for high priority Allied communications relating to the Normandy Landing.
Origin : Before Normandy, Allied orders for officers being sent to Gibraltar for preparations for the invasion of North Africa were stamped "TO GIB" ; later these orders were stamped BIG OT (TO GIB backwards) when many of these same officers were sent back from Gibraltar to begin planning Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach.
Q5) The Princess of Amen-Ra (~1000 BC), after her death, was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the banks of the Nile . . . . .blah blah . . . (see original post)
Eventually, an American archaeologist (who dismissed the happenings as quirks of circumstance), paid a handsome price for the mummy and arranged for its removal to New York . The new owner escorted his treasure aboard a liner about to New York.
This is how the legend ends :
On the night of April 14, amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess of Amen-Ra accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the Atlantic. The name of the ship was 'Titanic'.
Q6) This one’s from WW I : During the Battle of the Frontiers in August 1914, in Belgium, the British forces were being beaten back by the Germans, until this group of horsemen came to their aid. The terrified German troops soon panicked and fled.
Who were these horsemen ? (some versions speak of only one horseman)
I apologize for poorly wording this question.
The story goes that the Germans were scared away by an army of angels on horseback. The phenomenon has come to be known as the Angel(s) of Mons. (google it for more info).
