Here’s a little quiz to keep your spear sharp. It quite easy, so long as you remember your classes in central Asian military history and Japanese cooking. you must choose whether the name given is that of one of my stalwart Generals, or a Japanese Dessert.

General or Japanese Dessert?

1. Jebe
   General
   Dessert

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2. Jochi
   General
   Dessert

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3. Mochi
   General
   Dessert

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4. Manju
   General
   Dessert

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5. Ohagi
   General
   Dessert

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6. Ogedei
   General
   Dessert

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7. Wagashi
   General
   Dessert

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8. Orda
   General
   Dessert

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9. Subutai , Lord of the Uriankhai, Commander of the Western Hordes, Scourge of the Khwarizm
   General
   Dessert

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If you get fewer than four, then you are either a cannibal or can’t tell ice cream rice cakes from mounted warriors. If you got between four and six, the disgrace should only follow you for, say, two generations. But if you guessed right more than seven times you shall walk amongst the chosen. In the afterlife you will be cooled by winds with no sand and drink from ponds with no urine. You will not be required to apologize to any of the bugs you smashed or the times during sexual congress where you thought of those you were not with.  You will, however, be required to pay sales tax on all in-state purchases. Them’s the rules.