Life of Napoleon
This 1805 battle against the Austrian army led to the final disintegration of the thousand year-old Holy Roman Empire, and is often considered Napoleon's greatest victory.
The Battle of Austerlitz
Daily Double!
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This island off the southern tip of Italy is the largest in the Mediterranean. The three largest cities on this island also lend their names to three cities in Upstate New York, along with one neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sicily
This skateboarder won the X games six times, and has an entire video game series named after him.
Tony Hawk
This territory, encompassing much of the land surrounding the Mississippi river, including the city of New Orleans, was sold by Napoleon to the nascent USA in 1803.
Lousiana
This 1862 novel about an escaped bread thief who became a mayor and industrialist went on to inspire two movies and a Tony-winning musical.
Les Miserables
Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, but this mountain, the second tallest, is considered far harder to summit.
K2
This 2009 single, named after a bioluminescent insect, is about insomnia.
Fireflies
Guerilla, meaning "little war," is used to describe a form of asymmetric warfare used by weaker opponents against stronger ones. This term is derived from tactics adopted by residents resisting Napoleon's invasion of this country.
Spain
This quixotic German radical, wrote, in the wake of the failed revolutions of 1848, a largely-ignored pamphlet which he termed a Manifesto. It languished in obscurity for decades, until it was rediscovered in the 1870s, finally landing in 1889 in the hands of a young Russian liberal named Vladmir Lenin.
Karl Marx
The highest point in the continguous US, ___, is just 85 miles from ____, the lowest point in the contiguous US (and North America).
Mount Whitney
Badwater Basin
This is the longest serving head of state of an APEC country.
Vladmir Putin
This slab, found during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, contains parallel inscriptions in Koine Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphs. It allowed historians to finally decipher hieroglyphic script.
The Rosetta Stone
Bonus: Where is it displayed now?
This country, encompassing the former French colony of Saint-Domingue, resulted from the world's first, and only, successful slave revolt.
Haiti
Mexico City
This famous square in London is named after a Napoleonic-era naval battle, where Admiral Horatio Nelson sunk the entire French fleet near the Straits of Gibraltar.
Trafalgar Square
Napoleon was born on this Mediterranean island, ceded to France only a year before his birth. Nowadays, it's more famous for its thru-hiking trails!
Corsica
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade," which described a doomed infantry charge during a yearlong siege in this war.
The Crimean War
Bonus: What was the siege?
There are 14 cities in the world with more than a million people that speak French as their first language.
Name five of them (100 per response).
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paris, France
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Casablanca, Morocco
Bamako, Mali
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Algiers, Algeria
Dakar, Senegal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Douala, Cameroon
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Conakry, Guinea
This Norwegian explorer was the first to reach the South Pole, beating out Englishman Robert Falcon Scott by a matter of weeks.
Roald Amundsen