Bored and stuck in an airport. AMA about the Middle Ages and I’ll give you a wrong answer
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How long would I have lived?
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All people died before they were born that’s why the life expectancy was so low
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Who was Edward Longshanks’ favorite singer?
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Longshanks loved Toad the Wet Sprocket - a bit mournful, always soulful
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How dark were the dark ages?
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SO FUCKING DARK
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What Is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?
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African or European
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😆
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who was the best bishop adalbero?
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Trick question: they were all the same Adalbero
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When is it appropriate to have a midlife crisis?
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Definitely ~1347-50
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Weapon for use in the melee competition
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Favorite medieval dynasty
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Duck
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How did peasants give prompts to chatGPT?
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What was the extent of literacy?
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8
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Explain the extent to which individuals cooked their own meals individually
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Everyone used Portal Dash
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Why did medieval Byzantium collapse
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They were too byzzy to pay their maintenance bills
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What was the average rate of novel heresies per year in the eleventh century?
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5
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Where were all the Protestants from 325 to 1517?
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In the forests of Bulgaria biding their time
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When was the last dragon killed on continental Europe? I know the last English one was Margaret Beaufort.
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Puff is still out there. Somewhere
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Would Hildegard of Bingen think I'm cool? Would she hang out with me
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No and no
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Sorry
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😭😭😭 What if I got pretty good at manuscript illumination
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Were beer and ale really different beverages like they are in the taverns of the original “Bard’s Tale” RPG?
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Yes each with different hp gains, so save your gold pieces that everyone carried carefully
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Why didn’t the mongols conquer Europe?
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Germans dug a ditch and that was considered crass by the great khan so he directed the army elsewhere
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the great khan is at peace with ditches
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Did they always wear suits of armor, or just on their annual Portrait Day?
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Always armor. Never get close enough to smell it at a museum
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what were the most popular social media platforms?
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Inquisitiongram
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well played sir
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Matt did people in the middle ages take baths
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Only in the blood of their enemies
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Who would win in an arm wrestling match, Charlemagne or Alfred the Great
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Charlemagne but only because einhard would be hiding under the table shivving Alfred
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How did the Templar treasure get inside of mt. Rushmore?
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Carefully
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What happens to ghosts when old castles are torn down?
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Best video game set or based in the Middle Ages?
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Doom the dark ages
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Longtime listener, first time caller: Which Middle Age kings would have been crypto/options daytrader bros?
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Every pope Every Pope
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Is this the right answer or a wrong answer? Because I feel like this is a right answer...
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It’s wrong because 2 popes wouldn’t be into crypto
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why is it called the middle ages?
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It comes from “midevil” because what happened in the period was the median of all evil things
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Why did nobody expect the spanish inquisition?
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Stay tuned. It may be coming around again.
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Everyone was red-green colorblind so they blended into the forest
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Were there bespoke hairshirts or did one have to make one’s own?
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All bespoke because you had to grow your own
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How many eels did a noble, say, Eleanor of Aquitaine consume in their lifetime?
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How was the tooth hygiene
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No one had teeth
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Did all roads actually lead to Rome? What about streets, avenues, and boulevards?
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Who would win in a (you get to pick the kind of) fight? Meister Eckhart vs. Hildegaard von Bingen
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Eckhart is definitely a “stop hitting yourself guy.”
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Current question first: are you seeing children with mitochondrial challenges there today? Middle Ages: How was fever treated (as a prediction of new CDC recommendations)?
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When did the Middle Ages start and end?
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Why is it called the "High" Middle Ages and not the "Middle" Middle Ages?
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I mean you know why
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Did Medieval people know about lead poisoning, and if so, did anybody make lead free pigments for manuscripts?
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They did know but lead-based bread “blead” was too tasty to give up for them
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Sweet!
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What was the most popular food in the Middle Ages and why was it turkey drumsticks?
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Easier to carry to the joust, while drinking a pepsi
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what's your favorite pilgrimage path to rome?
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I try to avoid western NY generally but I guess staying overnight in Binghamton is doable
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How many witches were burned at the stake during the entire duration of the Middle Ages?
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There were no women in the Middle Ages, so 0
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What’s your favorite medieval torture?
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Listening to economists talk about the dark ages
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Sorry that one’s actually torture
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