Classical
Who won the Roman Civil War known as the Year of Five Emperors?
Septimius Severus
This battle between Eastern Rome and the Seljuk Turks in 1071 resulted in the loss of most of Byzantine territory in Anatolia and initiated the First Crusade.
The Battle of Manzikert
This second-cousin to Hernán Cortés, landed on the shores of South America in 1531 with only 180 men, and conquered the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro
Who won the Eighty Years War?
The Netherlands
In what year did Benito Mussolini have his March on Rome, creating the first fascist government?
1922
The Second Persian Invasion of Greece was defeated at which battle in 479 BC?
The Battle of Plataea
This Viking was the first to be crowned as King of England.
Sweyn Forkbeard
This King of France also reigned as the King of Polish-Lithuania from 1573-1575.
Henry III of France
The one-armed British admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died at which battle in 1805, on-board his HMS victory, his last words being; "Thank God I have done my duty"
The Battle of Trafalgar
This battle in 1943 is one of the costliest battles of the Second World War and the single deadliest tank battle in history.
The Battle of Kursk
After which Greek king is the phrase "pyrrhic victory" named?
King Pyrrhus of Epirus
This Saxon Chief resisted Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars, and was the maternal ancestor to the Emperor Otto the Great.
Widukind
This war was the largest peasant revolt in European history, fought from 1524 to 1525 with over 100,000 peasants killed.
German Peasants' War
Dubbed by Napoleon as "the bravest of the brave", this Marshal of France led at least 6 cavalry charges against dug-in British positions at Waterloo in 1815, having at least 4 horses shot out from under him.
Marshal Michel Ney
How many concentration camps on the Eastern Front are alleged extermination camps?
6 (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno, Majdanek)
This second last Emperor of Western Rome, never fully relinquished his role as Western Emperor, ruling from his home province of Dalmatia until his assassination in 480 AD.
Julius Nepos
The Teutonic Knights were defeated by the pagan King of Poland and Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło in 1410 at which battle?
The Battle of Grunwald
What year did Hungary fall to the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Mohács?
1526
Close friend to Beethoven, this Prince of Prussia, and nephew of Frederick the Great, died at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806, his last words crying "Sieg oder Tod!"
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
The hunger blockade of Germany was kept in place for how many months after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, resulting in at-least 100,000 additional civilian deaths?
8 Months
This Roman patriot melted his own right hand off without flinching, when brought before the Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in 508 BC.
Gaius Mucius Scaevola
The father of a King of England who shared his name, this knight abandoned the First Crusade during the siege of Antioch in 1098, convincing the Byzantine Emperor not to send relief while on his way home, he was then refused by his wife and sent back to the holy land, where he died in 1102.
Stephen of Blois
The largest naval battle since classical antiquity, the Christian fleet deployed in the formation of a cross, while the Muslim fleet took the formation of a crescent at which naval battle in 1571?
The Battle of Lepanto
The Great Sleigh Drive of 1678-1679, during the Scanian War of 1675-1679, lead to the invention of German Maneuver Warfare by this "Great Elector"
Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia
This foreign volunteer division of the Waffen SS was amongst the last defenders of the Führerbunker in 1945.
Waffen SS Division Charlemagne