tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post1271909330679610110..comments2023-09-25T15:31:09.296+01:00Comments on Leaflocker: Through History with the Monday Quiz in Exile: The 1460'sUnwiseOwlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-22246068959214944332017-08-13T03:00:15.339+01:002017-08-13T03:00:15.339+01:001. Sarajevo!
2. Perhaps Lithuania! Or Poland, whi...1. Sarajevo!<br />2. Perhaps Lithuania! Or Poland, which would be much the same thing in the 14s. Or the Holy Roman Empire.<br />3. All eligible voters, I think! Funky little republics...<br />4. You'd think he'd start with German!<br />5. Scotland! Or perhaps England!<br />6. The Samourai Movie Period! Oh, actually -- the Shogunate? Same same.<br />7. There are so many ways this question could go. "Because it was a vital factor in War X" or "Because it advanced mathy theory" or "it's like Enigma in miniature" or so on. I'm going to just say "it was the first code that was systematically unbreakable given the cryptography of its time."<br />8. Had he retired there? Was he the last Pope to retire for all that time, maybe? Working on his memoirs?<br />9. The Gambia, for a bathe. Just kidding. If the Fula are going to become the Fulani, than they are heading ESE towards modern Nigeria, taking in numerous other modern countries on the way.<br />10. That's going to be an encyclopedia, or perhaps something closer to a dictionary, and I will get my point either way or I WILL KNOW WHY, damn it!Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-16744101183234241722017-08-03T01:46:14.283+01:002017-08-03T01:46:14.283+01:00Right, let's do this.
1. Sarajevo.
2. A guess...Right, let's do this.<br /><br />1. Sarajevo.<br />2. A guess, but I'll say Poland-Lithuania.<br />3. I'd imagine from among the old, wealthy families, but I don't have enough knowledge of Florence to name anything specific.<br />4. Two obvious candidates: French and German! (and in Strasbourg it's not trivial guessing one or another); let's guess German.<br />5. Scotland. Poor Margaret died on her way to claim the crown, I believe.<br />6. The Sengoku period.<br />7. I would imagine the biggest advance is it means you're not confined to a single cipher for the entire message, which would otherwise leave it vulnerable to a letter-frequency analysis and guessing common words.<br />8. Probably at war with one of the Italian cities, or the Holy Roman Empire, or the French.<br />9. It's guessing time once again, and I'll say Mali.<br />10. Dictionaries?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15242025288095910910noreply@blogger.com