World Wars
The assassination of this Austrian Grand Duke and his wife Sophie by a Bosnian Serb nationalist kickstarted the First World War.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Two weeks after 9/11, a CIA team entered this country to prepare for an invasion.
What is Afghanistan?
This was the capital of ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
This English Queen was her husband's second wife, but the first to lose her head.
Who is Anne Boleyn?
At 6'4 he was the tallest US President.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This infamous World War One battle was the first to see tanks in combat.
What was the Somme?
Unlike the Oregon trail, this trail brought people to Utah instead of the Pacific Northwest.
What was the Mormon Trail?
This Egyptian Queen famously had three consorts, one of who was Mark Antony.
Who was Cleopatra?
This British queen ruled for 63 years, a period that would be named after her.
Who was Queen Victoria?
One of history's most notorious serial killers, he operated in the Whitechapel district of London in the late 1800s but was never identified.
Who was Jack the Ripper?
This country lost over 25 million citizens and military personnel in the Second World War. It was the largest death toll of all countries involved?
What was the Soviet Union?
In 1945, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb took place in this state.
What is New Mexico?
In 48 BC, he burned the Library of Alexandria.
Who was Julius Caesar?
At just 14 years old, Austrian Archduchess Maria Antonia took this name during her wedding to a foreign prince. They would both later be beheaded.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
On March 1st, 1872, this national park was the first to be recognized in the United State.
What is Yellowstone.
This major battle on the Eastern Front has gone down in history as the deadliest to take place in the Second World War.
What was the battle of Stalingrad?
Thomas Jefferson appointed this man, his personal secretary, to lead an expedition to find the North West passage.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
This animal was thought of as magical in ancient Egypt.
What are cats?
Born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, she would later become the last Empress of this ill-fated empire.
What was the Russian Empire?
This famous US monument was a gift from the people of France in 1886.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This was the name of a widely used camouflage pattern in the First World War.
What is Dazzle camo?
In 1911, the US joined Japan and Russia in an agreement to protect seals in this sea that borders Alaska.
What is the Bering Sea?
These two brothers were said to be the founders of Rome.
Who is Romulus and Remus?
The future Queen Victoria was named Alexandrina Victoria at birth to celebrate the victory of this Emperor over Napoleon.
Who was Alexander I?
The future Russian emperor Peter the Great once went undercover in this Dutch trading company to learn boat-building techniques.
What was the Dutch East India Company?