Classical
After which Greek king is the phrase "pyrrhic victory" named?
King Pyrrhus of Epirus
This Viking was the first to be crowned as King of England.
Sweyn Forkbeard
This second-cousin of Hernán Cortés, landed on the shores of South America in 1531 with only 180 men, and conquered the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro
This battle fought in 1800, after which Napoleon named his horse, a ship, and a dish, led to the end of the second coalition.
The Battle of Marengo
This battle fought in 1943 was the costliest tank battle in history, with the first day of the battle being the costliest day in aerial warfare.
The Battle of Kursk
This Pope rode out of Rome to meet with Attila the Hun and convinced Attila to stop his invasion of Italy.
Pope Leo I
This Saxon Chief resisted Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars, and was the maternal ancestor to the Emperor Otto the Great.
Widukind
This King of France also reigned as the King of Polish-Lithuania from 1573-1575.
Henry III of France
The war of Spanish succession from 1701 to 1714 resulted in the end of Habsburg rule in Spain and the installment of which dynasty?
The Bourbon Dynasty
This battle in 1915 saw the first large-scale use of chemical weapons on the Western Front.
The Second Battle of Ypres
Who won the Roman Civil War known as the Year of Five Emperors?
Septimius Severus
This battle between Byzantium and the Seljuk Turks in 1071 cost the Byzantines large territories in Anatolia and triggered the First Crusade.
The Battle of Manzikert
What year did Hungary fall to the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Mohács?
1526
This King of Sweden, known as the father of modern warfare, intervened in the Thirty Years War, and died at the battle of Lützen in 1632.
Gustavus Adolphus
The conference codenamed Eureka, a strategy meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in 1943, was held in which city?
Tehran
The Second Persian Invasion of Greece was defeated at which battle in 479 BC?
The Battle of Plataea
The Teutonic Knights were defeated by a pagan King of Polish-Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło in 1410 at which battle?
The Battle of Grunwald
The largest naval battle since antiquity, the Christian fleet deployed in a cross formation while the Muslims took the formation of a crescent at which battle in 1571?
The Battle of Lepanto
This Imperial Prince and commander saw his first fighting at age 20 during the battle of Vienna in 1683, and fought alongside an ancestor to Winston Churchill at the battle of Blenheim in 1704.
Prince Eugene of Savoy
This fighter pilot is the most successful fighter ace in history, credited with 352 victories across 1,404 combat missions.
Erich Hartmann
This Caledonian Chief was defeated by the Roman general Agricola at the battle of Mons Graupius in the Scottish highlands around 83 AD.
Calgacus
A freak hailstorm destroyed an army of English besiegers on Easter Monday of 1360, killing 1000 soldiers and 6000 horses outside of which French city?
Chartres
Whos election as King of Sweden in 1523 ended the century long unification of Scandinavia known as the Kalmar Union?
Gustav Vasa
What year was Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, creating the first unified Italian state since the 6th century?
1861
This amphibious invasion of Northern France by the Allies on August 19th, 1942 was fought beneath the largest single-day air battle of all time.
Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee)