Forced to do 12 labors to atone for killing his family in a drunken rage, this hero was immortalized in a Disney movie featuring songs like "Hero to Zero" and "Go the Distance"
Who is Hercules
100
This war between England and France ran from about 1337-1453. Its name really emphasizes it's extraordinary length.
What is The Hundred Years War
100
This Great Gatsby author was renowned for his enmity with Earnest Hemingway.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
100
This web-slinging hero is supposedly a member of the Avengers, although due to movie ownership rights he has not appeared in any of the recent movies.
Who is Spiderman
100
This third president of the United States also wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
These twin gods of Greek myth were born on the island of Delos to Leto. Both are renowned archers, although they see each other only infrequently as one represents the moon and the other the sun.
Who are Apollo and Artemis
200
This war began with the "shot heard round the world" and ended 8 years later with the surrender of General Cornwallis and his armies. It was formally ended with a peace treaty in Paris.
What is the American Revolutionary War
200
This author just released To See a Watchman to accompany her famous first success To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee
200
Played by Samuel L. Jackson in the most recent Avengers movies, this head of Shield works in the background of most superhero stories, but he always seems to appear when the heroes of the world need to be brought together.
Who is Nick Fury
200
This 26th president was a strong "trustbuster" and loved by the American people until he attempted to run for a third term by creating the Bull-Moose Party
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
300
Born out of sea foam that came into contact with the blood of Ouranos, this goddess is married to Hephaestus but can frequently be found sleeping with Ares. Her bird is the dove.
Who is Aphrodite
300
This series of five wars ran through the Middle Ages. The fourth led to the sack of Constantinople, and these wars made famous Saladin and Richard the Lionheart.
What is the Crusades
300
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, this woman was a fiery abolitionist.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
This leader of the X-men has the power to shoot laser beams from his eyes and is in love with Jean Grey
Who is Cyclops
300
This 7th president of the U.S. made his name winning the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, earning the monicker Old Hickory over the course of his life.
Who is Andrew Jackson
400
This goddess of spite sparked the Trojan War by throwing an apple with "for the fairest" between Hera, Artemis, and Athena.
Who is Eris
400
This war between Israel and most of the Middle East takes its name from its extraordinary brevity. In it, Israel took the Sinai, Golan Heights, and Jerusalem.
What is The Six Day War
400
The romantic author of The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne
400
This "merc with a mouth" will soon be played by Ryan Reynolds on the big screen. He is one of the few heroes who is unafraid to kill, and exists in the Marvel Universe.
Who is Deadpool
400
This former Civil War General was the second president elected from Illinois, and served two terms as our Republican 18th president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
This mortal woman caught Zeus's eye, and so he raped her in the form of a swan. She later lay the egg that birthed Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her story was immortalized by a poem by Yeats entitled "[blank] and the swan"
Who is Leda
500
Featuring Operation Torch, Operation Barbarossa, and Operation Dynamo, this famous war caused damage that could only slowly be repaired by the Marshall Plan
What is World War II
500
This Emerson fanatic went out into the woods to "find himself" before returning with the book Walden.
Who is Henry David Thoreau
500
This Amazon Warrior Woman is a central member of the Justice League, and carries magic wrist braces and a powerful lasso.
Who is Wonder Woman
500
The only president to hold two nonconsecutive terms, this Democratic 22nd and 24th president had to guide the country through the Panic of 1893.