Royal history
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived
What were the fates of Henry VIII's wives?
This Mongolian ruler killed enough people to impact the carbon footprint of his time
Who was Genghis Khan?
11 on the field and one goalkeeper
What is a football team?
This battle ended the Napoleonic Wars. It is also the title of a debut song for the Swedish pop-sensation, ABBA.
What was the Battle of Waterloo 1815?
The first president/chairman of the People's Republic of China.
Who was Mao Zedong?
This king is often used as an example of the severity of Habsburg inbreeding
Who was Charles II of Spain?
This French town is well-known for a mass hysteria event which caused people to dance
What is Strasbourg?
This country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
What is Uruguay?
1 September 1939
When did Germany invade Poland?
Inventor of the Radio
Who was Guglielmo Marconi?
Queen Victoria of England was descended from this daughter of a foundational Swedish king
Who was Katarina Vasa?
In dynastic China, this was a major punishment and a road to employment
What is complete castration?
A mammal that lays eggs
What is a monotreme... orrrr is that Perry the Platypus?
This was an armed conflict fought in Nigeria between 1967 and 1970.
What was the Biafran War or Nigerian Civil War?
A date which will live in infamy
What was Pearl Harbor?
The Second Emperor of Mexico and spare to the Austrian throne.
Who was Maximilian of Austria?
This device was used to punish women whose speech was quarrelsome and riotous.
What is a scold's bridle?
This comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.
What is the letter M?
This battle was the defeat of the French Union forces by the Viet Minh forces in the First Indochina War. It took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954.
What was the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ?
Suffering from haemophilia, this person was the last heir apparent for the Russian Tsardom.
Who was Alexei Nikolaevich?
The first ever haseki sultan of the Ottoman empire
Who was Hürrem Sultan?
This person was responsible for a huge banquet in honor of King Louis XIV. According to an account, he was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery that he committed suicide with his sword, and his body was discovered when someone came to tell him of the arrival of the fish.
Who was François Vatel? (1631-71)
6.022x1023
A conversion constant or ratio between an amount of substance and the number of particles that it contains.
What is the Avogadro constant?
This was a communist-indigenous rebellion that took place in El Salvador between 22 and 25 January 1932. After the revolt was suppressed, it was followed by large-scale government killings in western El Salvador, which resulted in the deaths of 10,000 to 40,000 people.
What was La Matanza? (1932)
These mills manufactured cotton textiles by combining all stages of cloth production—spinning and weaving—under one single roof in Massachusetts. Ca. 1810s.
What are the Lowell Mills?