Generals
Who was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who was the Queen of England from 1952 to 2022?
Queen Elizabeth II
Who was the first person from the Iberian peninsula to find the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
Who traveled to China in the 13th century?
Marco Polo
Who was the main advocate for women's suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony
Who organized the D-Day invasion?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who is the most notorious king of Russia?
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
Who sailed across the Indian Ocean as a general under the Ming Dynasty?
Zheng He
Who was the first Russian merchant in India?
Afanasy Nikitin, who visited there in the 1470s
Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo?
Charles Lindenburgh
Who was nicknamed "The Desert Fox"?
Erwin Rommel
Who united Norway into one kingdom?
Harald Fairhair
Who was the first European to discover the Americas?
Leif Erikson
What Muslim merchant traveled from Morocco all the way to China?
Ibn Buttuta
Who created the Periodic Table?
Dmitri Mendeleev
Who was the general that defeated the French during the Haitian Revolution?
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Who was the first emperor of Mexico?
Agustin de Iturbide
Who famously said: "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!"
John Paul Jones
Who was the first merchant to sell silk in America?
Jean Louis Poyas
Who patented the backpack?
Henry Merriam
Who was the commander of the Mexican troops during the Anuahuac disturbances?
Domingo de Ugartechea
Who was the first king of the Swedish?
Erik the Victorious (Erik Segersall)
Who was the first recorded person to find Iceland?
Naddodd, in 860 AD
Who was the Muslim merchant that founded the city of Kilwa?
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi
Who was forced out of Korea, came back, and ended up winning the Pulitzer in 1951?
Marguerite "Maggie" Higgins