Famous Wars
The 3 countries who made up the Axis Powers alliance during World War 2.
Who are Germany, Japan, and Italy?
The man credited for the creation and patenting of the first telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Known for his sexual debauchery and attempting to wage war against the god of water, Caligula served as the emperor of this empire.
What is Rome?
Homer's The Odyssey served as a follow up to his original play with this title.
What is The Illiad?
The number of prime ministers Canada has had so far during the 21st century.
What is 4?
A series of wars named after this fruit resulted in US imposed dictators in countries such as Cuba and Nicaragua.
What are bananas?
The shortest reigning US president who died of pneumonia only a month after his innauguration.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The Greek War of Independence allowed Greece to become its own country and gained freedom from this ruling empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
A series of pro-democracy protests, uprisings & armed rebellions that broke out across Africa & the Middle East in the early 2010's.
What is The Arab Spring?
This ethnic group faced a genocide imposed by the Hutu during the Rwandan Civil War.
Who are the Tutsi / Watusi?
While many of William Shakespeare's plays in his First Folio followed the lineage of multiple King Henry's, he also has two plays that bookend these, about two kings who share this name.
Who is Richard?
Black-figure, red-figure, and white ground are all styles of this Greek art form.
This country signed the Falepili Union with Tuvalu and the Pukpuk Treaty with Papua New Guinea in the last 5 years.
Who is Australia?
China became unified after wars waged by this state between 230-221 BC, eventually also sharing the state's title with the following dynasty.
What is Qin?
The Great Leap Forward of 1958 was a failed policy that led to widespread famine in this country.
Where is China?
This famous empire originally served as a small kingdom amongst Greece, thriving for over 2 centuries before their fourth war demoted them to a Roman province.
What is Macedon / Macedonia?
A Libyan politician that was successfully assassinated in 2011.
Who is (Muammar) Gaddafi?
This war was fought in the 15th century as the Lancaster and York families vied for the throne.
What is the War of the Roses?
Mary, Queen of Scots, failed to negotiate peace between these two warring religious factions during the 1560's.
Who are the Catholics and Protestants?
The Greek astronomer and physician who first used pi to find the area and volume of circles.
Who is Archimedes?
This country was the first country in the Americas that a Pope was born in.
Where is Argentina?