A most successful quizzing
Sep. 24th, 2017 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAn extremely successful quiz night despite lacking two members of our time — they were on a mini-break in southern Italy. Fortunately, another occasional member had returned from a recent trip to Florence in time to bolster numbers and we won after dropping a mere nine points across the rounds. Unfortunately, we dropped one where I thought the answer was Prince Philip — and it was! — but the others managed to talk me round.
On the plus side, when a question came up about the Russian revolution, I insisted on adding that it was carried out by the Bolsheviks rather than simply going with the general asnwer of the communists — I remembered that two factions had split prior to the revolution and that they didn't formally become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until much later — and sure enough, there must've been a CP history on the setting team because they didn't want communists as an answer.
(There was also a certain amount of confusion about the exact relationship between the The Communist Manifesto and it's the Russian Revolution — I think one of the others had conflated it with What Is To Be Done?, probably thanks to title of Marx' work and the standard political use of the term manifesto. Fortunately, having a father who is something of expert on the works of Marx, it was pretty easy to straighten things out!)
On the plus side, when a question came up about the Russian revolution, I insisted on adding that it was carried out by the Bolsheviks rather than simply going with the general asnwer of the communists — I remembered that two factions had split prior to the revolution and that they didn't formally become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until much later — and sure enough, there must've been a CP history on the setting team because they didn't want communists as an answer.
(There was also a certain amount of confusion about the exact relationship between the The Communist Manifesto and it's the Russian Revolution — I think one of the others had conflated it with What Is To Be Done?, probably thanks to title of Marx' work and the standard political use of the term manifesto. Fortunately, having a father who is something of expert on the works of Marx, it was pretty easy to straighten things out!)
