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A Quiz going over mainly European military history
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1
Who won the War of the Roses?
The House of Windsor
The House of Derbyshire
The House of York
The House of Lancaster
2
The Battle of Alesia was fought in what modern day country?
Belgium
Italy
Switzerland
France
3
Which state led the unification of Italy?
Venice
Sardinia
The Papal State
Naples
4
The Muslim conquests resulted in the fall of what empire?
The Chinese
The Byzantines
The Sassanid Persians
The Greeks
5
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being the easiest, how hard was this Quiz?
7.5-10
5-7.5
1-2.5
2.5-5
6
The Battle of Cannae was won by who?
The Celts
The Carthaginians
The Romans
The Greeks
7
The Great Northern War was fought between who?
Prussia, Sweden, Denmark-Norway, Russia, Poland/Lithuania
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland
Sweden and Russia
England and Iceland
8
What year did the Byzantine empire fall?
1453
1435
1493
It didn't
9
Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor?
Louis the Pious
Charlemagne
Nicolas the Third
Constantine
10
In what French region did the D-Day invasion occur?
Alsace-Lorraine
Brittany
Normandy
Corse
11
The Battle of Hastings was fought between who?
The Normans and the English
The Chinese and the Russians
The English and the French
The French and the Normans
12
Who were the combatants in the Crimean War?
Sweden, Ukraine and Russia
Armenia, Crimean Khanate, and The Ottomans
The Ottomans, Britain, France, Sardinia and Russia
Russia, Britain, and Sweden
13
Who won the Battle of Marathon?
The Spartans/Ionians
The Persians
The Egyptians
The Athenians/Plateans
14
The Battle of Manzikert resulted in what for the Byzantines?
The death of Justinian the Great
The loss of the Levant
A spectacular victory
The loss of Asia Minor
15
Which countries formed the Central Powers?
Austria-Hungary, Germany, The Ottomans, and Bulgaria
France, Austria-Hungary, Britain, and Germany
Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Serbia
Russia, Britain, France, and Italy
16
What battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2 decisively crushed the Japanese Navy?
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Darwin
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Malta
17
The
Pax Romana
was what?
A period of war and ruin
The Roman golden age
A period of stagnation
A long period of peace
18
Which great general conquered the Persian Empire?
Alexander of Macedon
Phillip the Second
Leonidas
Perseus
19
From the ashes of what did Germany form?
Prussia
The First German Empire
Saxony
The Holy Roman Empire
20
In what battle were Austrian and Russian forces crushed by the French?
Austerlitz
St. Helena
Waterloo
Brussels
21
What was the name of the Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula?
Al-Andalus
The Caliphate of Cordoba
Iberian Union
Iraq
22
The Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic war was notable for what battle?
The Battle of Grunwald
The Battle of Manzikert
Battle of Thorn
Battle of Pomerania
23
What year did the Western Roman Empire fall?
336 B.C
477 A.D
476 A.D
455 A.D
24
The First World War started with what event?
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
A Russo-German invasion of Poland
The independence of Hungary
The Loss of Crimea to the Austrians
25
What Naval Battle was decisive in ensuring continued British naval supremacy?
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
26
The battle of Agincourt was part of what war?
The Hundred Years' war
Roman-Persian war
French-Savoy war
The Viking Raids
27
What battle ended the War of the Second Triumvirate?
The Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Actium
Battle of Narbone
The Battle of Phillipi
28
What was the official name of the failed operation to Liberate the Low Countries?
Operation Mincemeat
Operation Overlord
Operation Market Garden
Operation Orange
29
The Reconquista was what?
The invasion of Mexico
The Muslim conquest of Spain
A large scale invasion of the former Roman Empire
The Christian reconquest of Iberia
30
Where was the first Viking Raid?
Sweden
Lindisfarne
York
Bavaria
31
The Hundred Years' War was a ______ Victory
Burgundian
English
French
Castilian
32
The Pyrrhic War was notable for what?
It's large number of hollow victories
Iron weapons
The involvement of the Roman Republic
The Siege of Tarrentum
33
What was the name of the Frankish general who turned back the Muslims at the Battle of Tours?
Charles Martel
Saladin
Joan de Arc
Richard the Third
34
The American Revolution marked the end of what?
British Rule in North America
The First British Empire
The Holy Roman Empire
The Jacobites
35
Rome's primary rival was
Persia
Boudicca
The Germans
The Celts
36
The Peloponnesian war was fought between who?
The Delian League/Peloponnesian League
Persia/Peloponnesian League
Carthage/Rome
Sparta/Athens
