Sunday, August 19

QUIZ

Name the only major city in the world to have had three different well-known names (i.e., names it was known by while being a major city, not just some village). Give all three names as well.

First correct answer gets a Dewey button.
Posted by Metamatician on Sunday, August 19, 2007

7 comments:

Unknown said...

They Might Be wha...?

Byzantium
Constantinople
Istanbul

August 20, 2007
Metamatician said...

You are correct sir!

Damn, that was quick, bet you were the first one to even see that post.

Please go here for your prize:
DEWEY BUTTON

August 20, 2007
Anonymous said...

Shucks, oh well, I was never much of a fan of Dewey anyway. All you young squirts don't even know who he was. LOL

August 20, 2007
Metamatician said...

You're right, I know very little about Thomas Dewey. I think he was from New York, of course I know the story about the famous newspaper headline declaring him to have defeated Truman based on the Tribune's own projections, and I would guess that meant he ran for President in the '40s, either '44 or '48 if my olympiad/presidential backwards counting is correct. I think he was fairly young at the time too, but I could be wrong.

Much more interesting is John Dewey, no relation, who was a philosopher and psychologist with strong pragmatist views who fought for progressive education in a time of conservatism, and who by the way was on a committee or cleared Trotsky of the charges leveled at him by Stalin! Not that it helped Trotsky, who was assassinated a few years later.

But neither of these are the point. The real thing we want to know is: Would you have gotten the original quiz question correct without researching it online? (Even that might be a hard thing to search for, but I'm sure it could be found.) Answer honestly!

August 20, 2007
Hans said...

I wanted to say Istanbul,..but didn't know if it had a 3rd name. Really wanted that Dewey button!! Have more? Good going Jon, the proud owner of the D.B. Award.

August 20, 2007
Unknown said...

Frankly, I prefer Byzantium to Instanbul. I am a fan of the name Constantinople, for whatever that's worth.

Sadly, I only remember the answer because my jerky college roommate spent a semester in Istanbul and I insisted on calling it Byzantium. He came back all holier than thou, which was hard on roommate relations since I usually fit that niche.

I was going to suggest New Amsterdam, New York, and Stengertopia, but only an elite few recognize the latter...

August 20, 2007
Metamatician said...

I hear ya man. I was gonna say "name the TWO cities..." but I realized it violated the rule that it has to be widely recognized by that name.

Maybe we're just a little early with this quiz. We'll try it again in a couple of years when I run the Internet and you are the Dicktator of Stengertopia.

See who gets all the Dewey buttons then!

August 20, 2007

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