RICHEST

Alan Rufus

Being one of the men who joined William the Conqueror in battle, Alan Rufus was an extremely wealthy man. He owned thousands of acres of land, and a castle, and his net worth value today is an estimated $145 billion, making him very comfortable on the list of the richest people in history.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

During the 1870’s Cornelius Vanderbilt had an estimated net worth of around $105 million, which even today would be considered extremely wealthy. Having earned his absolutely massive fortune from is investments in the shipping and railroad industry, his net worth today would be estimated at a value of around $170 billion.

Henry Ford

The founder of the even still famous Ford Motor Company, it comes as no surprise that Henry Ford has made the list of some of the richest people in history. The car brand of Ford today, is one of the most popular car brands ever. Today’s value of his net worth in the 1930’s would be an estimated $180 billion.

William The Conqueror

Being the leader of the Normans, who were triumphant in the battle of Hastings in 1066, is what led to William the conqueror being crowned king of England. The value of his net worth today is estimated to be somewhere in the region of $200 billion, making him one of the richest people in history.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

Although he has been blamed and accused of destroying both the military and the economy of Russia during his reign from 1868-1918, this doesn’t stop Tsar Nicholas II making the list of one of the richest people ever to have lived. The peak of his wealth in reference to today’s value is an estimated $290 billion.

Andrew Carnegie

An investment in the steel industry is one of the main investments that helped Andrew Carnegie to earn his tremendous wealth. However, unlike many other millionaires or billionaires, Carnegie did not like the thought of dying rich and so he used his masses of wealth in the 1880’s to help make the society a better place.

John D. Rockefeller

Being the first man in history to ever have a net worth of $1 billion in 1916, John D. Rockefeller’s estimated worth in respect of today’s value, would have been around $340 billion. His fortune was earned through being the founder of a major oil company. He is most certainly considered one of the most, if not the most, wealthiest people in history.

Mansa Musa

Known today as the richest man in history, Mansa Musa’s net worth has been valued at around $400 billion. Being the richest African king ever to have lived, there is still not all that much known about Mansa Musa and he is not as well known today as many of the other richest people in history.

QUIZ SHOW

Type of Questions, list
1. Main Emperors and Main Rulers
2. What Medium of a Known Artwork is Used
3. Famous Document
4. Famous Book, and here is the Year
5. Type of Candies- A:What is Turkish Delight?
6. Famous Organizations
7. Nat'l Parks
8. Popular Sitcoms
9. Great Explorers, who explored South Africa, Sahara, etc.
10. Middle Names
11. US States
12. Peninsulas
13. Shakespeare, Fortinbras is the prince of this country A: What is Norway
14. Archaeology
15. US Postal Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Opera, Names and Title Characters
18. Which Bible Book, and which Bible Verse
19. Academic Degrees
20. Current Day Novels and Best Sellers
21. Game and Reality shows
22. Sports Rules, When a defensive player makes a catch in football   A: What is an Interception
23. POP NEWS, Deepak Chopra performed the Wedding Ceremony of Swiss Beatz and who?
      A: Alicia Keys
24. French Novelists
25. Men Of Science
26. Word Origins
27. Famous Gardens
28. Who beat who, which sports team and which arena
29. World Flags, what do they mean exactly
30. Colleges

STRATEGY
Never Guess. Know Everything Cold.


Q: In 71AD, this Empire founded what would become York - then called Eboracum
A: What is the Roman Empire?

Where a Prince write the sins of the people on this animal
A: What is Scapegoat


Q: Latin or Greek for Newly Planted
A: What is a neophyte

Q: Allowed puffs of air to remove impurities from steel
A: The Bessemer Process

Q: Who is this indie group w/ the album, The Suburbs
A: Who are Arcade Fire?


Zacharias Ministers in the Temple in this book that comes before John and after Mark
A: What is Luke

They bravely go up, down under. RAAF
A: What is the Royal Australian Air Force

A non state US Postal abbreviation
A: What is American Samoa

Q: Meaning the position in which a discovery is first uncovered
A: What is In Situ?

Q: Also a Keanu Reeves movie, the layers of rock surrounding fossilized bone
A: What is Matrix?

Q: This Mexican Peninsula, lies between the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean Sea
A: What is the Yucatan?

Q: This Triangular Peninsula was occupied by Israeli forces during The Six Day War
A: What's the Sinai Peninsula?

Q: The Adriatic, Ionian and Black Seas wash the shore of this Peninsula
A: What is the Balkan Peninsula?

Q: Fur Magnate, John Astor
A: What is Jacob?


Tell Peter Tchaikovsky the news
A: What is Ilych

Rules of this Game Show
If you answer wrong, you can get $1000 deducted off of your total.
You can get into a hole for answering wrong.

The world's first Nat'l Park was Yellowstone opened in 1872, this country opened its first park at Banff in 1887
A: Canada

Q: Your econ prof thanks you for photographing key passages of this 1776 Adam Smith work for everyone
A: What is the Wealth of Nations

Q: Who was the Emperor of Mexico who was executed in June 19, 1867?

Q: The Oscar goes to him for directing the Schindler's List

Q: Geoffrey Fletcher for writing this, based on the novel Push by Sapphire

Q: This singer, for her role of Effie in "Dreamgirls"

Q: Him for his role of Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire

Q: Who is Cuba Gooding Jr

Q: These 2 Brothers, for their adapted screenplay for "No Country For Old Men"

A: Who are the Collin Brothers?

Q: The Ides of March, 44 BC.. he is entered as he enters a Senate Meeting

Q: At June 15, 1215 at Runnymede - King John puts his Seal on this Document

A: What is the Magna Carta

Q: November 10, 1871..these 2 have a historic meeting in the Central African Village of Ijiji

Who is Stanley and Livingston

Q: June 10 1864.. this ArchDuke is Crowned Emperor of Mexico

Q: Featuring Roller Coasters, Ohio’s Cedar Point is one of these parks with a Gleeful Name

A: What is an amusement park

Q: Matthew, chapter 14 verse 27 .. Jesus spoke unto them saying, “be of good”

A: What is Cheer?

Q: Rembrandt for 1669’s Return of the Prodigal Son (what type of medium)

A: What is oil?

A: What is Acid Rain?

Types of Answers

A:  What is EPA

A: What is Sierra Club

A: What is Acid rain?

Synonymous w/ Theatrical Make Up

A: What is Grease Paint?

How Krylon and Valspar is meant to be applied

A: What is Spray Paint?

To Create a Glow in the Dark Halloween display, what is Latin for light?

A: What is luminous or luminescent

Q: Having scaled Mt. Everest at Age 23, Bear Grylls started hosting this Survivalist show 

A: What is Man VS Wild

"Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story" and "Mother, may I sleep w/ danger?"

A: What is Lifetime?

Us website for this, "When spies get fired they don't get a letter from human resources

A: What is Burn Notice

1869 to 1874, Gustav Nachtigal explored this Dessert.. first to Cross from Lake Chad to the White Nile

A: What's Sahara

In the late 1770s, Robert Gordon explored this present day country from the High Veldt to the Orange River

A: What is South Africa

John Hanning Speke and this Fellow Brit had a long running Feud as to the real source of the Nile

A: Sir Richard Burton

Around 2750 BC, Hannu, an Egyptian sailed down this Sea, reaching what is now Ethiopia and Somalia

A: What is the Red Sea

FINAL QUESTION

Q: The Title Character Of This Opera, addresses his son in the Aria "Sois Immobile"

"Hold Yourself Still"
A: What is William Tell?

My viewing list

Hans von Walter  (Semifinals - 11/16/2010)
Second One w/ Hans Von
Ep w/ Joohn Pahk