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If You Can Identify At Least 20 Of The 24 Tools In This Quiz, You’re Basically A Historian
We’ve collected 24 tools for you to figure out. Most of them come from the past, some even from ancient times, and a few are still used today. A lot of these objects don’t exactly look like the tools we’re used to now, which makes things a bit trickier. Your job in this quiz is simple – look at the picture and try to pick the correct use for each tool.
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Cee Cee 6 months ago
17 tally stick. Much, much older than Roman. The picture is of the Lebombo bone found in S. Africa and is over 40,000 years old. These are subject to differing opinions as to their use and certainly not confined to recording debt. Tallies of livestock, a sort of calendar or purely decorative/ritual markings.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
BP's "source" (the tiny link under the photo on the left-hand side) literally says "Actually, it’s hard to know how these devices were used." It mentions that sometimes they were used as calendars/day trackers and sometimes as livestock tallies. And yet those answers were "wrong", according to BP. XD https://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/tally-sticks/
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Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
The given answer to 11 is wrong. I spotted it was Chinese. Traditional Chinese magnetic compasses pointed south (not north - the "correct" answer), so I guessed at a different use. The original article states: "...Its author notes [...] the compass, or “south pointer” as the Chinese called it...". Anyway, I'm happy with 22/24 given the number of wild guesses I made, even though it should have been 23 if only Q11 had had a correct answer available. 😉😁 Thank you BP.
Russell Bowman 6 months ago
"People used tiny spoon-shaped ear scoops to clean their ears as part of hygiene routines." Ear spoons are still used in modern day Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) offices
Rick Murray 6 months ago
What *was* this tool used for? The candle snuffer? Was? [looks up at candalabra hanging from the ceiling]
Beak Hookage 6 months ago
I actually own a plumb! It belonged to a great-grandfather of mine who was a builder.
UKGrandad 6 months ago
Called 'plumb' because they were originally made from lead.
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person (i think) 6 months ago
#9 is wrong. _Everyone_ knows those are used for collecting souls.
UKGrandad 6 months ago (edited)
#18 is not a lamp snuffer, it's a candle extinguisher. Snuffers were special scissors used to trim the wick while the candle/lamp was still alight. The scissors were kept extremely sharp and one blade had a tray on its outer edge to catch the trimmed wick.
Ace 6 months ago
Just the one 'wrong' answer, but that's because the right answer was not listed. 20. No, these pictured jars are not for dripping medicine, they're for collecting tears.
UKGrandad 6 months ago (edited)
They weren't used for collecting tears. They're called 'tear bottles' because of the teardrop shape. The wide f****e around the mouth of the bottles would have made them totally useless for catching tears. EDIT: the censored word is 'flànge'. WHY?
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Cee Cee 6 months ago
17 tally stick. Much, much older than Roman. The picture is of the Lebombo bone found in S. Africa and is over 40,000 years old. These are subject to differing opinions as to their use and certainly not confined to recording debt. Tallies of livestock, a sort of calendar or purely decorative/ritual markings.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
BP's "source" (the tiny link under the photo on the left-hand side) literally says "Actually, it’s hard to know how these devices were used." It mentions that sometimes they were used as calendars/day trackers and sometimes as livestock tallies. And yet those answers were "wrong", according to BP. XD https://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/tally-sticks/
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
The given answer to 11 is wrong. I spotted it was Chinese. Traditional Chinese magnetic compasses pointed south (not north - the "correct" answer), so I guessed at a different use. The original article states: "...Its author notes [...] the compass, or “south pointer” as the Chinese called it...". Anyway, I'm happy with 22/24 given the number of wild guesses I made, even though it should have been 23 if only Q11 had had a correct answer available. 😉😁 Thank you BP.
Russell Bowman 6 months ago
"People used tiny spoon-shaped ear scoops to clean their ears as part of hygiene routines." Ear spoons are still used in modern day Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) offices
Rick Murray 6 months ago
What *was* this tool used for? The candle snuffer? Was? [looks up at candalabra hanging from the ceiling]
Beak Hookage 6 months ago
I actually own a plumb! It belonged to a great-grandfather of mine who was a builder.
UKGrandad 6 months ago
Called 'plumb' because they were originally made from lead.
Load More Replies... person (i think) 6 months ago
#9 is wrong. _Everyone_ knows those are used for collecting souls.
UKGrandad 6 months ago (edited)
#18 is not a lamp snuffer, it's a candle extinguisher. Snuffers were special scissors used to trim the wick while the candle/lamp was still alight. The scissors were kept extremely sharp and one blade had a tray on its outer edge to catch the trimmed wick.
Ace 6 months ago
Just the one 'wrong' answer, but that's because the right answer was not listed. 20. No, these pictured jars are not for dripping medicine, they're for collecting tears.
UKGrandad 6 months ago (edited)
They weren't used for collecting tears. They're called 'tear bottles' because of the teardrop shape. The wide f****e around the mouth of the bottles would have made them totally useless for catching tears. EDIT: the censored word is 'flànge'. WHY?
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