Wars & Conflicts
This Japanese city was hit by the first atomic bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
This monarch gave up the British throne in 1936.
Who is Edward VIII?
The pyramids were built as tombs for these Egyptian rulers.
What are pharaohs?
The Black Death was a form of this disease.
What is plague?
This empire ruled much of India during the 19th century.
What is the British Empire?
“Blitzkrieg” is German for this kind of warfare.
What is lightning war?
This English king had six wives.
Who is Henry VIII?
Ancient Egyptians wrote using this system of picture symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Great Plague of 1665 struck this English city.
What is London?
This prison fortress in Paris was stormed in 1789.
What is the Bastille?
This operation was the codename for the D-Day invasion.
What is Operation Overlord?
This queen was known as “Bloody Mary.”
Who is Mary I?
The Parthenon in Athens honored this Greek goddes
Who is Athena?
Fleas carried plague from these animals to humans
What are rats?
This Russian ruler was overthrown during the Revolution of 1917.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
his country was attacked during Operation Barbarossa.
What is the Soviet Union?
This English monarch faced the Spanish Armada.
Who is Elizabeth I?
This conqueror spread Greek culture across much of Asia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This disease devastated Indigenous peoples in the Americas after European arrival.
What is smallpox?
This South American liberator helped free Venezuela and Peru from Spanish rule.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
The huge system of earthworks in World War I were called these.
What are trenches?
This English king won the Battle of Agincourt.
Who is Henry V?
The code of laws associated with Babylon was created by this ruler.
Who is Hammurabi?
This pandemic flu outbreak spread worldwide in 1918.
What is the Spanish flu?
This Chinese emperor ordered construction of much of the Great Wall.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This major naval battle of World War I took place in 1916.
What is the Battle of Jutland?
This king signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Who is King John?
This Roman emperor made Christianity legal in the empire.
Who is Constantine?
This disease, once called consumption, primarily affected the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
This empire stretched across North Africa and the Middle East under Muslim rule.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in this year.
What is 1962?
This monarch was also Empress of India.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This Greek historian is often called the “Father of History.
Who is Herodotus?
The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian word for this number.
40 : they required ships to anchor for 40 day to ensure they were not bringing the plague into the city.
This Incan city high in the Andes was rediscovered in 1911.
What is Machu Picchu?
his U.S. president promoted the “Star Wars” defense initiative.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This queen had 18 pregnancies, but none of her children survived to adulthood.
Who is Queen Anne?
The Romans called this sea the “Mare Nostrum.”
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This ancient Greek physician’s theories dominated European medicine for centuries.
Who is Galen?
This emperor divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
Who is Diocletian?
This country was invaded by Soviet troops in 1956 during the Cold War.
What is Hungary?
This English king was called “Unready.”
Æthelred
This Babylonian king is associated with one of the ancient world’s hanging gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
This Greek historian described the plague that struck Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
This revolution in 1688 replaced James II with William and Mary.
What is the Glorious Revolution?