Ancient History
Roman Empire
European History
20th Century
Historical Figures by picture
100
The Persian King defeated by Alexander the Great (the number is not needed)
Who is Darius (III)?
100
The month, day, and year of Julius Caesar's assassination
What is March 15, 44 BCE?
100
The Frankish king surprised by the Pope with the title of "Roman Emperor".
Who is Charlemagne?
100
A British band of four cardinal members whose innovative, melodic music made them the first international superstars in the 1960s.
Who are the Beatles.
100
Hint: US President
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
Location of a mausoleum in Anatolia which is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is Halicarnassus?
200
Name of the magistrate in charge of the Judea province during the time Jesus of Nazareth was gaining followers.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
200
A famous tapestry that recounts the Norman invasion of England.
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
200
An Argentinian born revolutionary who became an Anti-Capitalist pro-Marxist icon of the 1960s.
Who is Che Guevara?
200
Hint: this portrait was made in the 18th century; the subject is a 13th century man
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Civilization on the central Italian peninsula which preceded the Romans.
Who are the Etruscans?
300
Name of the political alliance formed between Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey from 60-53 BCE.
What is the First Triumvirate?
300
An English writer regarded as the founding father of free-market Capitalism
Who is Adam Smith?
300
The country which (in the early 1900s) was widely considered the first non-Western country to achieve a standard of living, government system, and military equal to Western powers.
What is Japan?
300
Hint: this monarch is not a European
Who is Emperor Meiji?
400
Greco-Roman geographer from Alexandria responsible for some of the ancient world's most accurate productions of the Earth
Who is Ptolemy?
400
Large roman country estates depending on serfs or slaves (industrial agriculture)
What are 'latifundia'? (Villa manorial system or something like that is also acceptable)
400
The Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor who signed the Peace of Augsburg, allowing princes to choose the state religion which their people followed.
Who is Charles V.
400
The Italian-born inventor of the radio, which was considered by JM Roberts to be the single greatest invention of the 20th century.
Who is Enrico Marconi?
400
Hint: A Geneva-born philosopher
Who is Jean-Jacques Rosseau?
500
The royal capital of both the Sassanian and Parthian empires (located in modern-day Iraq)
What is Ctesiphon?
500
The last official western Roman Emperor deposed by Odoacer in 476 C.
Who is Romulus Augustus? (Augustulus is acceptable)
500
An multinational economic "community" which reopened relations between W. Germany and France, and is considered the first phase of "European integration" which ended with the EU.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)?
500
The peaceful democratic movement in the 1980s which brought Czechoslovakia out of the Iron curtain.
What is the Velvet Revolution?
500
Hint: On his desk is one of his many plays
Who is Anton Checkhov?