Revisiting History

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @thenoelmiller
    @thenoelmiller  2 года назад +233

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  • @bartholomew7852
    @bartholomew7852 2 года назад +3750

    Oooh, Alex's trick question was awesome, what a great teacher, what a great trick question. I'm gonna add that to my curriculum.

    • @JustMe-ql9li
      @JustMe-ql9li 2 года назад +26

      right on lmao

    • @elinorris1739
      @elinorris1739 2 года назад +8

      I don't understand what makes it a trick question isn't it just a normal question?

    • @turk58guy
      @turk58guy 2 года назад +53

      @@elinorris1739 everything they were talking about was related to a world War so throwing a completely different war while talking about storming beaches was the trick. Noel fell for the trap saying Normandy but completely missed the country

    • @ineedamilkshake
      @ineedamilkshake 2 года назад +1

      just about what you'd expect from a mf called Bartholomew

    • @bartholomew7852
      @bartholomew7852 2 года назад +6

      @@ineedamilkshake Homies out here really do be named Bartholomew

  • @SheaButterBoys
    @SheaButterBoys 2 года назад +2751

    Man, I loved Alex's Trick Question. It's a shame that it's gonna cost him like 30 Noel-bucks from his next check though

    • @elinorris1739
      @elinorris1739 2 года назад +12

      why is it a trick question? isn't it just a normal straightforward question?

    • @kikinatrone
      @kikinatrone 2 года назад +2

      And so it should

    • @DekuSword
      @DekuSword 2 года назад +10

      @@elinorris1739 last couple questions were about ww2, this one wasnt without explicitly saying it

    • @NeshaBoo21
      @NeshaBoo21 2 года назад +1

      You think he gets that much to begin with?

  • @DaddyLongLegs_x
    @DaddyLongLegs_x 2 года назад +9339

    You can tell Noel and Aleena should be together because their combined knowledge is almost equivalent to a normal person

  • @-Alexander-K
    @-Alexander-K 2 года назад +2736

    Man I’m dogshit at history and I felt like a god damn genius watching them struggle with these grade school questions. The American education system really do be hitting different

    • @soapy7619
      @soapy7619 2 года назад +99

      they’re canadian 😭

    • @BA-qn7xj
      @BA-qn7xj 2 года назад +29

      @@soapy7619 no they’re not? Isn’t Alena American? and I think Noel was joking about being Canadian

    • @taylorelliott9605
      @taylorelliott9605 2 года назад +18

      @@BA-qn7xj Alena is from London

    • @taylorelliott9605
      @taylorelliott9605 2 года назад +53

      @@BA-qn7xj and no he is Canadian he’s talked about it before

    • @BA-qn7xj
      @BA-qn7xj 2 года назад +27

      @@taylorelliott9605 really? I genuinely had no idea. I thought only Cody was Canadian. Do you know how long Noel was raised in Canada for? Did he go through the Canadian high school education system? Cuz I’m then I’d be kinda shocked that he didn’t know most of those basic questions lol

  • @codynardone8772
    @codynardone8772 2 года назад +707

    This was one of the most painful trivia videos I have ever watched

  • @guy8200
    @guy8200 2 года назад +3506

    Not only did Noel think that Normandy was in the U.K, he also thought that the landing there happened in 1965.

    • @joshentertainment2
      @joshentertainment2 2 года назад

      France

    • @jjwang7597
      @jjwang7597 2 года назад

      @@joshentertainment2 France

    • @TheSludgeMan
      @TheSludgeMan 2 года назад +71

      yo fr are all americans like this? how do they not know this shit?

    • @B-Durry
      @B-Durry 2 года назад +6

      There also weren’t any Marines in Normandy lmao

    • @sunny100294
      @sunny100294 2 года назад +11

      @@TheSludgeMan to be fair. They probably know way more about America that we europreans dont know

  • @bigfish3846
    @bigfish3846 2 года назад +5431

    As a midwesterner I’m more pissed off by Noel calling Idaho the Midwest than by Alena’s joke

    • @MahkReeProductions
      @MahkReeProductions 2 года назад +23

      lol - same

    • @case_0223
      @case_0223 2 года назад +28

      Facts, but that’s Canadians for you

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +64

      What do people in Idaho refer to themselves as? Potatoes?

    • @dingledonk8027
      @dingledonk8027 2 года назад +156

      @@jasonvargas7564 there aren't people in idaho

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +43

      @@dingledonk8027 that’s true I forgot. Nothing but potatoes and wendigos there

  • @JamilJarvis
    @JamilJarvis 2 года назад +2758

    Alex's trick question was criminally underrated, psychologically manipulating noel & Alena to the point where both were left in denial of his pure genius. This man was playing mental chess games with them from the very start & left no trace of his master plan leading up to it

    • @TurnTheCameraOff
      @TurnTheCameraOff 2 года назад +76

      You should add it to your curriculum

    • @JamilJarvis
      @JamilJarvis 2 года назад +36

      @@TurnTheCameraOff It's actually gonna be my thesis for my PHD

    • @trishaagz
      @trishaagz 2 года назад +4

      dude I was so proud when I got that one

    • @JamilJarvis
      @JamilJarvis 2 года назад +1

      @@trishaagz as you should

    • @JamilJarvis
      @JamilJarvis 2 года назад +1

      @@trishaagz As you should

  • @oliviagauvin8894
    @oliviagauvin8894 2 года назад +146

    i literally gasped and CHEERED when alex said the fun fact about the british intercepting the code because it is the same cipher that enabled them to get ahead in WWII and develop Turing’s enigma machine and i find that so fascinating!!!!

    • @aquaticfishiepompom
      @aquaticfishiepompom Год назад +1

      A bit unrelated but -It sucks that they killed Alan Turing

  • @eliosimpson5974
    @eliosimpson5974 2 года назад +313

    this was genuinely hilarious, we need more of alex's history corner!

  • @pguth98
    @pguth98 2 года назад +3284

    "Who knows these?"
    Guys, I finally figured out why our history seems to keep repeating itself as if we've learned nothing.

    • @MrDukeSilverr
      @MrDukeSilverr 2 года назад +12

      I mean I guess if you’re just not interested in world war history you wouldn’t know most of this, it’s still fucking cringe that they dont tho

    • @fxxalaba3836
      @fxxalaba3836 2 года назад +97

      @@MrDukeSilverr
      This is basic knowledge that people learn in school.
      And beside that you hear about this stuff all the time.
      You have to be a special type of „ignorant“ to not know any of these

    • @pguth98
      @pguth98 2 года назад +40

      @@MrDukeSilverr knowledge is never "cringe." being ignorant isn't cool.

    • @t.williams274
      @t.williams274 2 года назад +16

      @@fxxalaba3836 ^ i hate history and haven't taken it in 10 years and could answer all of these.

    • @TheElusiveReality
      @TheElusiveReality 2 года назад +10

      @@MrDukeSilverr imagine thinking that knowing what happened in WWII, ya know, all the stuff w hitler and nazis , is CRINGE 😭😭😭 "ew bro you know roughly how many people died in the holocaust? thats cringe"

  • @laurencass6449
    @laurencass6449 2 года назад +2766

    feeling united with Alex and my fellow history girlies in this moment

  • @rachemyebba8838
    @rachemyebba8838 2 года назад +2083

    I love how Noel is still acting like Aleena's answers are dumb even though he's been super wrong too

    • @maxschaeffer7228
      @maxschaeffer7228 2 года назад +116

      nah fr. They’re both awful but this guy said Hitler was WW1 he should be banned

    • @solangediesternenochstehen
      @solangediesternenochstehen 2 года назад +39

      that's what I was thinking. low key was worse than Aleena.

    • @jadenia
      @jadenia 2 года назад +2

      its so funny how he asks what the correct answer is and goes ohhh yeah thats right like he knew it 😭😭 motherfucker u didnt

    • @rachemyebba8838
      @rachemyebba8838 2 года назад +4

      @@jadenia 100% 😂

    • @rainy7106
      @rainy7106 2 года назад +38

      @@maxschaeffer7228 ngl at first I thought Noel was just into dumb girls but then I realized he was somehow dumber than her and she probably amazed him with her intellectual ability.

  • @JustMe-ql9li
    @JustMe-ql9li 2 года назад +528

    this is really entertaining, but its also concerning to see people still know so little about basic history

    • @shircarmichael1265
      @shircarmichael1265 2 года назад +28

      Right?? Like I laughed but now I feel sad lmao

    • @terradon852
      @terradon852 Год назад +2

      Well they have a more successful life than everybody in the comments telling them they’re dumb so idk if it’s all that concerning lol. They may not know the dates of important events but they know how to make lots of money from doing something they enjoy, which is a LOT more rare.

  • @beth4692
    @beth4692 2 года назад +87

    The fact Noel thought WW1 was going on in the 30s is hilarious

  • @gilesbuxton738
    @gilesbuxton738 2 года назад +2040

    Alena is so nice to Alex very refreshing to see him get praised more than the usual noel bucks.

    • @rolon-ew5kl
      @rolon-ew5kl 2 года назад +19

      Ying and yang there alena nice to alex, noel mean to him😂

    • @zero1487
      @zero1487 2 года назад

      Well Alex sucks soo…

  • @duke8912
    @duke8912 2 года назад +895

    Ah yes I remember the dropping of Winston Churchill, nicknamed Fat Man, on Nagasaki as the Japanese Air force chanted "JET! JET! JET!" Probably one of my favorite historical moments.

    • @Purplesquigglystripe
      @Purplesquigglystripe 2 года назад +35

      Definitely one of the most moments in history

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад

      To be fair he was very fat and he was a man. He was quite literally a fat man

    • @Fiemus9
      @Fiemus9 2 года назад +3

      Looool

    • @samihauke4895
      @samihauke4895 2 года назад

      @@Purplesquigglystripe 😭

    • @3nzo.568
      @3nzo.568 2 года назад +6

      Yeah and it really sucked that Napoleon was rejected from art school because he was short

  • @kaegerator
    @kaegerator 2 года назад +411

    "i was thinking vienna"
    aleena had previously implied vienna was in italy, and then gave a frenchman as her answer

    • @bradhuygo
      @bradhuygo 2 года назад +47

      On top of that Hitler was Austrian, and Napoleon was 100 years earlier

    • @jessican7151
      @jessican7151 2 года назад +12

      to be fair Napoleon was ethnically italian

    • @lavarelease2928
      @lavarelease2928 2 года назад +2

      Napolean actually was italian

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +18

      @@jessican7151 no he was ethnically a short king

  • @elizabethtrop9924
    @elizabethtrop9924 2 года назад +51

    Pls make this a series it boosted my self confidence so much

  • @Pete_Finch
    @Pete_Finch 2 года назад +71

    I'm a history buff and I'm just glad you guys might have actually learned something after doing this video lmao

  • @tali6387
    @tali6387 2 года назад +1743

    make this a series pls as a history major this made me laugh my ass off and as a library science grad student this was horrible and i loved every minute of it

    • @juliaa.4102
      @juliaa.4102 2 года назад +13

      international affairs here - aka world history over and over again im in pain

    • @genevieve222
      @genevieve222 2 года назад +2

      wtf is library science

    • @kamk.5710
      @kamk.5710 2 года назад +1

      Alex needs to continue to host!

    • @melibeatriz
      @melibeatriz 2 года назад +4

      The true MLIS experience

    • @lolbutt124
      @lolbutt124 2 года назад +2

      Why are we the same person? I'm also an MLIS student who studied History!

  • @ari1758
    @ari1758 2 года назад +1829

    Noel and Aleena’s relationship is so amazing I love how they complement each others humor so well

    • @ChristicleNielsen
      @ChristicleNielsen 2 года назад

      One is smart and the other is literally ratarded.

    • @jassingh6943
      @jassingh6943 2 года назад +24

      thanks ksi

    • @Rabbit-the-One
      @Rabbit-the-One 2 года назад +3

      @@jassingh6943 it's not later enough yet.

    • @JiggyYeetLord
      @JiggyYeetLord 2 года назад +4

      Alex is such a good teacher! Wow what great questions. I will definitely be adding these to my repertoire!

    • @s.m.williams8209
      @s.m.williams8209 2 года назад +1

      hop off tf

  • @j03daschm07
    @j03daschm07 2 года назад +772

    I think one of the funniest things that got completely glossed over was at 10:55 when Aleena said Vienna was making her think of Italians lol

    • @turk58guy
      @turk58guy 2 года назад +74

      Or that napoleon is from Vienna

    • @ratedpending
      @ratedpending 2 года назад +7

      I mean Austria borders Italy that's not as bad as answering Napoleon

    • @chchchcherrybomb37
      @chchchcherrybomb37 2 года назад +59

      @@ratedpending the borders aren’t why she said it, it’s probably because she was thinking of Venice. And thinks they’re the same place.

    • @rear5118
      @rear5118 2 года назад +6

      Being from Vienna myself it raises the question if "Vienna" sounds Italian to Americans?

    • @ratedpending
      @ratedpending 2 года назад +2

      @@rear5118 no she confused it with Venice probably lol

  • @jennique96
    @jennique96 2 года назад +44

    The way Aleena got so excited about wanting to do statistics next was so wholesome.

  • @darrenedwarddolhanty6814
    @darrenedwarddolhanty6814 2 года назад +84

    The question both times was about the years that WW1 & WW2 happened/started and ended, even hinted how many years each one was and Aleena still wrote one year down each time😂😂

  • @hex2637
    @hex2637 2 года назад +2336

    As a european I want to thank you very much. You made me feel extremely smart for knowing basic history

    • @nilssteinhauer9879
      @nilssteinhauer9879 2 года назад +95

      honestly I was terrible in history and this really bugged me lmao

    • @KatherineMcat
      @KatherineMcat 2 года назад +91

      you're not smart your education system just isn't broken

    • @Drew-kx7yf
      @Drew-kx7yf 2 года назад +32

      No just you know basic history we are taught this people just don't care after HS you'd get the same results almost anwhere

    • @yreva_02
      @yreva_02 2 года назад

      nobody cares mr european

    • @joshentertainment2
      @joshentertainment2 2 года назад

      1939-1945

  • @actuallydudethatwouldbesal7644
    @actuallydudethatwouldbesal7644 2 года назад +2508

    Damn people like you guys make me feel really smart😭

    • @Nijha.Png.
      @Nijha.Png. 2 года назад +107

      Wrong for that💀

    • @ari1758
      @ari1758 2 года назад +77

      @@Nijha.Png. He didn’t lie tho 💀

    • @lilypuckey3030
      @lilypuckey3030 2 года назад +22

      right 😭

    • @rarebert6794
      @rarebert6794 2 года назад +60

      Fr, must be the air in LA or something ngl I might’ve lost some respect for Noel

    • @Quzga
      @Quzga 2 года назад +63

      My eyes almost popped out when she said 100k died in ww2

  • @andrrewgay
    @andrrewgay 2 года назад +629

    noel’s comment about idaho being in the midwest makes me want a geography version of this video

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +5

      Is Idaho considered west coast? I just assumed west coast was California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. Arizona I classify as southwest along with Texas and New Mexico. Midwest is Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Dakotas (Fanning and Johnson), Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

    • @bigfish3846
      @bigfish3846 2 года назад +6

      @@jasonvargas7564 Midwest is kinda a hard definition because of how different the eastern Midwest is the to the western Midwest. But most people inside the Midwest consider the borders to be Ohio to Kansas and North Dakota. Most people west of those states also do not consider themselves Midwesterners.

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +1

      @@bigfish3846 that’s interesting. I would have thought they identify more with the people from your definition of Midwest more than “west coast” states since culturally I’d say it’s more similar to Midwest than west coast, politically too.

    • @Hidden_Seeker_
      @Hidden_Seeker_ 2 года назад +4

      In a literal sense he’s right, it’s in the middle of the Western half of the country. People calling clearly Easter places like Chicago Midwest is what’s dumb to me. Just a poorly named region

    • @Awesomoso
      @Awesomoso 2 года назад

      @@bigfish3846 as a Midwesterner (using a corn stalk as an antenna right now) I consider just "the West" being passed Missouri but I don't see a lot of people with that distinction. Really the West is just less industry historically to me.

  • @orioncomet2469
    @orioncomet2469 2 года назад +21

    Alex is like the unsuccessful jester to the king and queen Noel and Aleena. I love it.

  • @kamehameha30
    @kamehameha30 2 года назад +78

    The way I SCREAMED "NAPOLEON????????” lmfao

  • @Oneofone77
    @Oneofone77 2 года назад +887

    This was… so bold of them to expose themselves like this for content. MAD respect. 😂😂

  • @PRED_exe
    @PRED_exe 2 года назад +635

    Can testify that you don't need to be a history buff to know most of these questions

  • @Pr0fessorB1ble
    @Pr0fessorB1ble 2 года назад +596

    ALEENA GETTING A QUESTION FROM HER OWN QUIZ WRONG IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IVE EVER SEEN LMFAO

  • @mrPurplexedYT
    @mrPurplexedYT 2 года назад +27

    It's honestly brave you even posted this omg, I'm not convinced this isn't just to test how the comments would be... like a social experiment

  • @mariamendonca1508
    @mariamendonca1508 2 года назад +61

    shocked by noel's performance on this he looks like someone who is really into ww2

  • @hoodiebk
    @hoodiebk 2 года назад +310

    Noel and Aleena forgetting basic knowledge and us knowing the answer to every question is the exact reason why they’re up there and we’re down here

  • @PaolaGarcia-lw4qf
    @PaolaGarcia-lw4qf 2 года назад +257

    this should be a series tbh- Alex just quizzes them in a select range each episode

  • @willpage6574
    @willpage6574 2 года назад +431

    Noel describing Occam's razor theory without even realizing killed me

    • @ethanbriggs1274
      @ethanbriggs1274 2 года назад +5

      Came to the comments to say this

    • @Holocoasterr
      @Holocoasterr 2 года назад +1

      Wait, timestamp?

    • @jolintoh
      @jolintoh 2 года назад +2

      @@Holocoasterr around 17:17

    • @LukasThyss
      @LukasThyss 2 года назад

      Was thinking recognition heuristic

    • @sjpd3352
      @sjpd3352 2 года назад +1

      yh not entirely sure if its what noel was going for but I get your drift... idk occam is more about complexity over which is more obvious/well known

  • @terryr4623
    @terryr4623 2 года назад +51

    I want another history trivia video. This was gold.

  • @AubreyKennedyx
    @AubreyKennedyx 2 года назад +31

    I want a series where the two of them just do quizzes like this like trivia, I really liked this video

  • @jrpark1945
    @jrpark1945 2 года назад +523

    I feel super smart right now. Thank you Noel and Aleena

    • @andreaskatsikakis5223
      @andreaskatsikakis5223 2 года назад +8

      Not a very high bar apparently 😂

    • @halatiny6537
      @halatiny6537 2 года назад +2

      You’re just basically HS educated

    • @PedroLucas-nh1mh
      @PedroLucas-nh1mh 2 года назад +5

      fr we all learned this within the past 4ish years, been a few decades for noel though

    • @WileChile51
      @WileChile51 2 года назад +9

      @@PedroLucas-nh1mh A few decades?? Man, you wrong for that. xD

    • @KazzieBB
      @KazzieBB 2 года назад +1

      @@halatiny6537 so were they

  • @goldwhining
    @goldwhining 2 года назад +467

    She wrote Napoleon with so much confidence, holy shit...

    • @kazakukog
      @kazakukog 2 года назад +43

      fr it's not even funny atp it's just sad 💀

    • @ariiannaperez
      @ariiannaperez 2 года назад

      i was legit thinking the same answer

  • @Whyohwhymybrain
    @Whyohwhymybrain 2 года назад +729

    So glad Noel's carer is doing these history flashcards with him, so nice to get into his special interests! 😁

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +36

      Odds are at least 5 of his family members had a hand in Pearl Harbor considering his racial ambiguity.

    • @ncense1608
      @ncense1608 2 года назад +22

      @@jasonvargas7564 BROTHER....

    • @recitationtohear
      @recitationtohear 2 года назад

      Link to the Clip : one of us is Dead
      ruclips.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/видео.html

  • @amybaby3694
    @amybaby3694 2 года назад +53

    I keep laughing at the automotive secrets 😂

  • @D0cJ0hn
    @D0cJ0hn Год назад +2

    14:56 Getting a mid-roll ad for Oppenheimer right as Alex shouts out “BOMB!” was hilarious and great timing 😂

  • @msw3314
    @msw3314 2 года назад +285

    Alex is such a great teacher. I’m gonna add his stuff to my curriculum.

  • @FRANKBLACK2
    @FRANKBLACK2 2 года назад +134

    Noel making fun of Alina for not knowing what the Roaring Twenties was but literally getting the year of the Great War off by 19 damn years...

  • @goos3billogn4
    @goos3billogn4 2 года назад +203

    I'm absolutely astonished and physically excited about the Vietnam question. good job alex

    • @elinorris1739
      @elinorris1739 2 года назад +3

      can you explain to me what made it a trick question? it seems like a straightforward question to me

    • @adamrose524
      @adamrose524 2 года назад +3

      @@elinorris1739 this whole quiz is about WW1 and WW2 so that’s what Noel and Aleena had in mind, but throwing in a Vietnam question to see if they’d catch it was the trick

  • @connorbjornson8315
    @connorbjornson8315 2 года назад +140

    My favorite part was definitely Alex's trick question. Both funny, and educational... A masterpiece compared to the rest of this mid video

  • @amerillys97
    @amerillys97 2 года назад +11

    Loved this so much lmao. They are so cute together and their answers had me cracking tf up 😂. This should be turned into a series.

  • @connorfagan3574
    @connorfagan3574 2 года назад +232

    As a history buff myself, this was a wonderful quiz Alex. And your trick question was lovely.

    • @JoeLigmama
      @JoeLigmama 2 года назад

      Wonderful? More like super easy

  • @flipflopsandsocks50
    @flipflopsandsocks50 2 года назад +761

    As a history major I’m not only screaming internally but I also feel like our k-12 history education is severely lacking and it makes me sad

    • @TheTGOAC
      @TheTGOAC 2 года назад +73

      Or maybe people just tend to forget information they don't use often. Not everyone is a history major. If someone was a math major and called you dumb for not knowing integrals would you think that's fair?

    • @jadenia
      @jadenia 2 года назад +34

      @@TheTGOAC i agree with you like i couldnt answer some of the more specific questions since the last time i took a history class was high school but most of this is pretty common knowledge not exclusive to history majors e.g hitlers domination occurring in ww2 not ww1

    • @gdoering8917
      @gdoering8917 2 года назад +52

      @@TheTGOAC These history questions weren't the equivalent of integrals, they were the equivalent of addition and subtraction.

    • @ewpickles864
      @ewpickles864 2 года назад +17

      i'd be screaming too if i chose to major in history

    • @Hot_Soupp
      @Hot_Soupp 2 года назад +12

      ​@@gdoering8917 Yes, I too talk about the Treaty of Versailles multiple times a day, every day, throughout my entire life, just as I add and subtract things every day of my life.

  • @alexishermes5932
    @alexishermes5932 2 года назад +240

    I’m yet another history major begging for this to be a series I just laughed so hard. It’s even funnier knowing Noel said he was getting into WWII stuff in the podcast

  • @princessacquah4317
    @princessacquah4317 2 года назад +5

    I’m sorry but @13:48 confirms to me that Noel was indeed a school bully back in his day 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @prostee8843
    @prostee8843 2 года назад +3

    9:30 the trick question was impressive (not patronizing)

  • @evanh1205
    @evanh1205 2 года назад +128

    Noel’s gotta stop pretending like he knew that shit after the answer is revealed💀

  • @pibro3861
    @pibro3861 2 года назад +223

    Can’t wait to see what next guests Alex has on!

  • @duke8912
    @duke8912 2 года назад +38

    The reason that restaurant mentioned by Aleena in Cuba is named Versailles, a french royal residence. Is because in the 19th and 18th centuries there was a mass migration of french people to Cuba, especially the eastern part, and it heavily influenced the culture.

  • @alumnae
    @alumnae 2 года назад +12

    the napoleon bit literally made my jaw drop LMFAOOOOOOOO

  • @SuspiciousSubstance
    @SuspiciousSubstance 2 года назад +6

    When Winston Churchill comes back to tell me, "we eatin good, I'm a fat man." Truly inspirational.

  • @swarlz_jr8042
    @swarlz_jr8042 2 года назад +304

    Noel, please make this a series! This is fire

  • @aidanp22
    @aidanp22 2 года назад +95

    Wow what a great teacher Alex is! He shows the whits of a veteran historian, his charisma and passion for history is truly inspirational!

  • @chrisjyoub
    @chrisjyoub 2 года назад +132

    I love the *annoying little brother energy of Alex

  • @ponyride23
    @ponyride23 2 года назад +14

    Noel really theorized Occam's razor on his own logic.

  • @varsity.1
    @varsity.1 2 года назад +15

    14:55 should not have made me scream laughing as loud as i did

  • @kitty7901
    @kitty7901 2 года назад +105

    noel’s roasting aleena but they scored pretty much the same points lmao

  • @mattkruse2145
    @mattkruse2145 2 года назад +72

    Noel be getting all the questions wrong and then nodding along to the answer lmaoo

  • @actionjackson3522
    @actionjackson3522 2 года назад +180

    What I've learned from this video: Aleena and Noel both slept through the WWI portion of world history.

    • @alexdobma4694
      @alexdobma4694 2 года назад +14

      My bro they didnt even know WW2 or Vietnam

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +6

      Noel gets a pass since he missed history class that day since he was interned with the rest of his family because his great grandfather’s cousin is Japanese and the US government was like, let’s throw them all in just to be safe.

    • @losisd3ad
      @losisd3ad 2 года назад

      history is by far the worst subject so

    • @tinyprettymoon
      @tinyprettymoon 2 года назад +1

      At first I read this as they slept through WWI itself and I was like hold up lmao

    • @mari98_
      @mari98_ 2 года назад +4

      ngl ww1 is kinda skimmed over in history classes versus ww2 that I feel like is beat to the ground in public education, also there’s so much more ww2 media that covers it that I think there’s a larger collective consciousness

  • @salamipastrami69
    @salamipastrami69 2 года назад +9

    This NEEDS to become a series.

  • @ninascarpa6752
    @ninascarpa6752 2 года назад +31

    The edit at 14:54 killed me

    • @violetwtf
      @violetwtf Год назад

      ME TOO IM LOSING IT RN HAHAH

  • @ellingw1143
    @ellingw1143 2 года назад +70

    Alex really made this work, it's clear he loves being the smart one.
    I don't know how they know nothing about this

    • @TheTGOAC
      @TheTGOAC 2 года назад +2

      Some people just don't read all that much about history. Noel really likes cars and I bet he'd look smart talking about that. People are good at different things

    • @ellingw1143
      @ellingw1143 2 года назад +8

      @@TheTGOAC I haven't had history since school but I know all of this. Maybe because I'm european but american education really is dogshit

    • @sahilsalvi9864
      @sahilsalvi9864 2 года назад +4

      @@TheTGOAC that's literally not an excuse for getting questions like "How did hitler die", "Who helped in making the atom bomb", "What was fat man" wrong, like cmon bruh it's been almost 10 years since I have last seen any history books but even I knew the answers :(

    • @TheTGOAC
      @TheTGOAC 2 года назад

      For everyone saying "this is basic school shit" ok how about recite the quadratic equation without looking it up. It's basic school shit so you should know it off the top right? Being an ass isn't gonna help your argument. Which isn't even an argument since I wasn't saying whether something was right or wrong. Anything to condescend though, right?

    • @ellingw1143
      @ellingw1143 2 года назад +4

      @@TheTGOAC that's not basic school shit. WW1 and 2 are the 2 most significant events in recent history. You get reminded of their consequences every day. It's a lot less abstract and complicated than the quadratic formula

  • @dragonsrule20201
    @dragonsrule20201 2 года назад +144

    I appreciate Aleena's point about her graduating GPA being meaningless without context because I was a straight C student at best and could answer most of these. I also missed about a day of school a week. However, all my teachers loved me, I was in AP classes (they didnt require testing into), and I'd always stay after class to discuss the subject matter further. I love learning! School was just a bad time for me.
    Also this is a funny ass video. I ask for more trivia time with Aleena and Nole

    • @iamcool544
      @iamcool544 2 года назад

      This was fucking painful to watch. The more questions were asked the dumber she seemed tbh. This is the first time I have heard her talk but when she said "what does predecessor mean" I actually yelled.

    • @maxgolub558
      @maxgolub558 2 года назад +3

      No one asked for you to give your life story in this RUclips comment section

    • @dragonsrule20201
      @dragonsrule20201 2 года назад +11

      @@maxgolub558 I dont think most people mind others sharing small things relevant to the video :) That said, this comment has inspired me to give an actual recount of my life now:
      You see, it all started on a chilly day in October, 1969. I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms, at night I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep. No one visits me, but I do have a few cats to keep me company. They enjoy Meow Mix. Their names are Winsor and Newton. I like to watch the birds outside my window. Thank you for showing interest

    • @jesusjimenez6499
      @jesusjimenez6499 2 года назад +5

      @@maxgolub558 dude touch grass

  • @kpoplover1901
    @kpoplover1901 2 года назад +174

    Tbh I appreciate videos like these because I also took APs and did well in school when I was studying this material but now I have forgotten so many things because I honestly hate history. This quiz made me feel a bit better about myself because I knew a good amount, but a lot of information gets mixed up in my brain or I genuinely forget it lol. I do think history is important and wish my teachers helped to cultivate more of a love and interest for this subject instead of just focusing on grades.

    • @jiminsmcthighs3620
      @jiminsmcthighs3620 2 года назад +1

      ok

    • @br4ve-trave1er.asf2
      @br4ve-trave1er.asf2 2 года назад

      Did you happen to take AP world? if so do you potentially have any tips for me?

    • @YerMate
      @YerMate 2 года назад

      Theres some great channels that make well researched history content in really entertaining ways. Oversimplified and Sam o'nella academy are some good ones to start with but there are heaps of channels in different styles that make informative and entertaining history content. I love to binge this stuff in the background while I work on other things

  • @thebadguywalking7396
    @thebadguywalking7396 2 года назад +7

    changing from jet to plane to clarify is too funny

  • @reubenallen7789
    @reubenallen7789 2 года назад +4

    17:26 Noel just casually discovering Occam’s Razor on his own over here

  • @onurekinaydin
    @onurekinaydin 2 года назад +56

    It's insane how little you two got correct, this was amazing, astonishing i love you two

  • @GalinhoFC
    @GalinhoFC 2 года назад +93

    What a great trick question Alex!

  • @bulelwashezi4540
    @bulelwashezi4540 2 года назад +63

    Great trick question Alex, definitely adding that to my curriculum!

  • @dierichtigelisa4627
    @dierichtigelisa4627 2 года назад +2

    Noel's little "oh" after the "Jet" answer is hilarious 15:43

  • @bibii422
    @bibii422 2 года назад +14

    watching this as an Austrian just makes me grateful for our education system lmao

  • @ggkush9956
    @ggkush9956 2 года назад +10

    09:21 That was actually a great question, Alex!

  • @benedictt.1050
    @benedictt.1050 2 года назад +34

    As a grad student in history this was both painful and hilarious to watch.

    • @alexpenneytration699
      @alexpenneytration699 2 года назад +4

      As someone who studied history at school until the age of 13, this was painful to watch

  • @lizard8694
    @lizard8694 2 года назад +55

    As a history education major this hurt so bad and I haven't even gotten my associates yet

    • @shivyadra2365
      @shivyadra2365 2 года назад +4

      i only just graduated highschool without taking any senior history and this video hurt so bad

    • @S4KCx
      @S4KCx 2 года назад +1

      As an unborn fetus this hurt so bad and I’ve not even been born yet.

  • @alexandracaggiano7819
    @alexandracaggiano7819 2 года назад +5

    As a history teacher, this whole video breaks my heart

  • @finnstaley2475
    @finnstaley2475 2 года назад +7

    Alex is such a creative and good host especially with his truck question !!!

  • @-opie-
    @-opie- 2 года назад +12

    I actually really appreciate Alex’s trick question in a really non patronizing way

  • @abyblue7287
    @abyblue7287 2 года назад +148

    Okayyy
    Is it just me or is Noel getting more and more comfortable with his dark jokes these days??
    It feels like the pre-TikTok days around here sometimes and I love it.
    Also, how tf did Nord VPN approve the beginning of that ad read?? 😂

    • @jasonvargas7564
      @jasonvargas7564 2 года назад +1

      That’s what married life does to you

    • @leek6068
      @leek6068 2 года назад +18

      hes not offensive/ignorant tho (most of the time). thats the diff. however i think some people dont get satire unless it is explicitly stated so idk

    • @ppppppppp64
      @ppppppppp64 2 года назад +4

      It seems like a lot of people nowadays are fighting against the gen z sensitivity (especially guys). Kind of like going back to how it was before

    • @abyblue7287
      @abyblue7287 2 года назад +16

      @@ppppppppp64 going back to before would maybe be going too far lol.
      It's just nice to hear something you KNOW is a joke be just that. A joke. No trying to decipher hidden meanings or whatever.

    • @rayquetzalcoatl9672
      @rayquetzalcoatl9672 2 года назад

      @@abyblue7287 Which jokes here particularly stood out to you as having hidden meanings? :o

  • @MyceliumNebula
    @MyceliumNebula 2 года назад +260

    I DID PEARL HARBOUR

  • @SurgicalStrike41
    @SurgicalStrike41 2 года назад +6

    As a history major specializing in the World Wars, I could only make it through this video after drinking vodka like a Russian soldier

  • @dommyd-kd1928
    @dommyd-kd1928 2 года назад +4

    I respect how they’re not afraid to be wrong on camera.

  • @Ms12369
    @Ms12369 2 года назад +49

    Love how Noel appreciates Aleena's humor. So cute!

    • @uwu-uv4mg
      @uwu-uv4mg 2 года назад +10

      So cute how he hypes her everytime

  • @abyblue7287
    @abyblue7287 2 года назад +105

    I find it so funny that Aleena in this video exudes the stereotypical "dumb blonde" energy when I thought she was *the* STEM smart kid lmao😂

    • @joshentertainment2
      @joshentertainment2 2 года назад +15

      She is smart but not in history

    • @iamcool544
      @iamcool544 2 года назад +18

      @@joshentertainment2 She didnt know what the word predecessor meant.

    • @joecexe1
      @joecexe1 2 года назад +6

      @@joshentertainment2 you hardly need to study history to know the awnsers to these questions tho, theyre just common knowledge. Idk how she could be considerd smart, no offence.

    • @botanicalitus4194
      @botanicalitus4194 2 года назад +4

      @@joecexe1 Its really not common knowledge, in my country things like world wars were not taught to us at all so I didnt know anything about them until a couple of years ago when I arrived at the US. Besides, intelligence is not defined by the facts you memorize but by your ability to think critically and apply those facts and concepts in various ways

    • @sifumonkey78
      @sifumonkey78 Год назад

      I guess they just didn't remember history stuff from high school.

  • @MahkReeProductions
    @MahkReeProductions 2 года назад +35

    every time Noel posts a new video I check his ring finger to see if he recorded this before or after his wedding. Idk why....

  • @madid7783
    @madid7783 2 года назад +5

    this should be shown in all history classes across america

  • @Crysta11ize
    @Crysta11ize Год назад +1

    That cut at 14:56 had me in tears

  • @LostandWithered
    @LostandWithered 2 года назад +26

    Got a history exam in 7 hours so this was very much needed!
    Thanks to Aleena and this guy, I’ll pass this exam easily :)

  • @actionjackson3522
    @actionjackson3522 2 года назад +12

    "A lot people don't know what this stuff is."
    So a lot of us went to American schools?

  • @Fiemus9
    @Fiemus9 2 года назад

    17:20 Well Einstein didn't want the project to continue but folks like Tycho Brahe kept going.
    I love Alex's history enthusiasm!

  • @mrcirk8765
    @mrcirk8765 2 года назад +8

    This whole thing makes my head hurt so much