Historical Figures
In 1475, this Queen of Castile married King Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Who is Queen Isabella?
This Empire was the largest in human history; at its peak in 1920 it covered 13.71 million square miles.
What is the British Empire?
In which city was President John F Kennedy Assassinated in 1963.
Where is Dallas?
In 1981, this woman became the first female US Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
When the Byzantine Empire fell in 1453, Ottoman conquerors renamed this Byzantine city to “Istanbul.”
What is Constantinople?
During the 1910s, this future leader of Vietnam traveled the world as a sailor, spending time in several major western cities including Boston.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This empire reached its territorial peak in the 14th century under the reign of Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
In which naval battle did Octavian defeat Marc Anthony in 31 B.C.?
What is the Battle of Actium?
This explorer became the first European to reach India by sea in 1498.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
In 1914, St. Petersburg was renamed to this Russian city.
What is Petrograd?
This Ethiopian ruler successfully led his country through the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1895-1896, solidifying the nation as an independent power.
Who is Menelik II?
This traditionally Hindu-Buddhist empire’s capital was Angkor, located in what is now Cambodia.
What is the Khmer Empire?
This place is where the largest ever US surrender of troops occurred.
What is Bataan, the Philippines?
These two cities were connected by the world’s first major intercity railway in 1830.
What is Manchester and Liverpool?
British authorities renamed this state to New York after taking it over from the Netherlands in the 17th century.
What is New Amsterdam?
This mathmetician’s famous last words before being killed by a Roman soldier during the siege of Sicily were, “Do not disturb my circles.”
Who is Archimedes?
Historians largely cite the 1976 withdrawal from this African territory as the formal end of the Spanish Empire.
Where is the Western Sahara?
In 1678, this priest fabricated the Popish Plot, which led to the execution of 35 alleged conspirators.
Who is Titus Oates?
In 1800, this physicist created the first battery.
Who is Alessandro Volta?
Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic of China, was formerly known as this city under the Kuomintang.
What is Beiping?
This American writer won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Who is Edith Wharton?
This is the name of the common language that was spoken in the Aztec Empire.
What is Nahuatl?
In 1896, this conflict lasted for around 40 minutes, making it the shortest war in history.
What is the Anglo-Zanzibar War
Amelia Earhart took off from this place when she became the first woman to fly nonstop across the Atlantic.
Where is Newfoundland, Canada?
During the reign of Emperor Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Empire relocated its capital to this German city.
What is Aachen?