History

War Is Hell

100

This young warlord named a city after his horse, Bucephalus

Alexander the Great

200

Had this leader been accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts, the world would have been grateful.

Hitler

300

Douglas Haig commanded an army in this battle that left 1 million dead

Battle of the Somme

400

This man led the battle of the 300 against the Persians at the battle of Thermypole.

Leonidas

500

Which war was being described when the quote 'War is Hell' was written?

American Civil War

Ancient Capitals

100

Thebes

Egypt

200

Tenochtitlan

Aztec

300

Buda

Hungary

400

Constantinople

Byzantine

500

Winchester

Wessex

Quotes

100

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country

JFK

200

I came, I saw, I conquered

Julius Caesar

300

The purpose of our lives is to be happy

Dalai Lama

400

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it

Winston Churchill

500

Cogito ergo sum

Descartes

Who Am I?

100

I am the oldest commissioned warship in the word, and live just up the road

HMS Victory

200

My creator said 'I ought to be jealous of the tower, she's more famous than I am'

Eiffel Tower

300

I was given as a gift, but when opened I was their doom

Trojan horse

400

I am a Roman Goddess, watching over a new Rome

Statue of Liberty

500

I am the largest land monument by land area, built to honour Vishnu

Angkor Wat

Descriptions

100

Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed.

Moon landings

200

Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the city. So I rose and slipped on my nightgowne, and went to her window…but, being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off; and so went to bed again and back to sleep.

Fire of London

300

So much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

D Day Landings

400

Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds

First nuclear detonation

500

The sea seemed to roll back upon itself, and to be driven from its banks by the convulsive motion of the earth; it is certain at least the shore was considerably enlarged, and several sea animals were left upon it. On the other side, a black and dreadful cloud, broken with rapid, zigzag flashes, revealed behind it variously shaped masses of flame...

Mt Vesuvius eruption