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History Analogies #4

Can you fill the blanks in these historical analogies?
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First submittedOctober 3, 2015
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Russia is to Soviet Union
Serbia is to Yugoslavia
William is to Mary
Ferdinand is to Isabella
Schönbrunn is to Austria
Versailles is to France
Globe Theatre is to
London
Ford's Theatre is to
Washington
V-E Day is to Europe
V-J Day is to Japan
Hong Kong is to the
United Kingdom
Macao is to Portugal
Betamax is to VHS
HD DVD is to Blu-Ray
Triumvirate is to Rome
Troika is to Russia
Beheading is to Anne Boleyn
Crucifixion is to
followers of Spartacus
Tommy is to British soldier
Jerry is to German soldier
This is to this …
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Greece is to
Modern Olympics
Uruguay is to
FIFA World Cup
Standard Oil is to Petroleum
De Beers is to Diamonds
Eli Whitney is to Cotton Gin
Alfred Nobel is to Dynamite
MLXVI is to Battle of Hastings
MMI is to September 11th
Königsberg is to Kaliningrad
Danzig is to Gdańsk
Kriegsmarine is to Navy
Luftwaffe is to Air Force
Margaret Thatcher is to
United Kingdom
Golda Meir is to Israel
Ethelred is to Unready
Edward is to Confessor
Lindbergh is to Men
Earhart is to Women
Jim Crow is to the
United States
Apartheid is to
South Africa
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99 Comments
gdf
+17
Level 8
Oct 3, 2015
I feel bad for lowering the average by 9 points.
nightowl
+2
Level 65
Dec 29, 2017
:-)
Jerry928
+4
Level 76
Oct 4, 2015
From Wikipedia: Plutarch, Appian and Florus all claim that Spartacus died during the battle, but Appian also reports that his body was never found. Six thousand survivors of the revolt captured by the legions of Crassus were crucified...
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Oct 5, 2015
D'oh! I knew that. Changed to "followers of Spartacus".
IsleAuHaulte
+17
Level 92
Apr 23, 2019
That's because they all claimed to be Spartacus. Don't you guys ever watch famous movies?
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Oct 25, 2022
most people watch the famous movies you love to tell everyone you hate... not 60+ year old films that most people under 40 have never seen.
MyrmidonPantheon
+3
Level 56
Sep 13, 2025
why is kalbahamut getting rude nowadays?
sillie
+7
Level 75
Oct 5, 2015
I'll start with the "surprised people didn't know" for this quiz. German soldier?? The least known? Really?
jajaco2017
+2
Level 56
Jan 18, 2017
some britons in the second worldwar had a "jerry" (a pot) to piss in
fadeaway6193
+11
Level 69
Sep 4, 2021
Maybe because the German/Nazi soldiers were known under different nicknames in different countries and regions. I typed in Fritz (still worked as an answer) because this is what they were called in Eastern Europe where I'm originally from. Never heard the nickname Jerry though
DwigtSchrute
+1
Level 53
Sep 14, 2023
Fritz is also the only common in Greece
Temp190
+2
Level 74
Jun 30, 2025
It is where we get the term "Jerry can" for military fuel and water cans, as designed by Germans and very popular with the Allies.
Carry
+1
Level 63
Aug 4, 2025
Never heard of a Jerry as a German so not really surprising to me.
AntiMatter8192
+7
Level 78
Aug 4, 2025
I tried Kraut, I think it should be accepted
chrslg
+1
Level 44
Dec 13, 2025
But that is not a first name as Tommy, or Jerry, or Fritz, is. Sure, you could argue that the question never said it had to be a first name. But the whole point of that "analogy" is that you have to guess the question from the example. And the example is a first name.
Protokletos
+1
Level 65
Aug 8, 2025
I tried 'Hun' first
burtviile
+10
Level 94
Oct 21, 2015
I couldn't understand the World Cup question. When I gave up I realized it said "modern olympics" not "mount olympus" as my brain interpreted it as, perhaps I should actually read the clues.
plattitude
+12
Level 94
Jul 1, 2016
Had a similar experience with Spartacus. Read it as the followers of Socrates, and couldn't remember them being killed...
AlfredBenjamin
+2
Level 73
Dec 20, 2019
I still don't get it..
nicolasquiz
+7
Level 68
Nov 2, 2020
Benjamin, the first modern Olympic games took place in Greece in 1896. The first FIFA World Cup took place in Uruguay in 1930.
thecoolestdude2
+6
Level 67
Nov 25, 2015
Had no idea what Schonbrunn meant... thought it was referring to the peace treaty of 1809. Those Austrians, palaces everywhere.
Duzza
+5
Level 33
May 13, 2016
The treaty is named after Schonbrunn Palace in which it was signed
plattitude
+23
Level 94
Jul 1, 2016
And the analogy still works there. Probably the most famous treaty signed in Austria, and the most famous one signed in France is probably the one signed in Versailles.
artemis05
+1
Level 75
Jan 10, 2016
I always mess up and spell "Yugoslavia" as "Yugoslovia". Dang it.
Elan
+2
Level 66
Mar 24, 2016
Perfect level of difficulty. I ot 11/20
Sifhraven
+4
Level 76
Jun 3, 2024
Maybe if your letter g worked you would have gotten 5 more ;)
onegonecat
+4
Level 72
Mar 28, 2016
The VE/VJ day question really confused me. I thought it was looking for a continent. I tried Asia, East Asia, Oceania, Australia, etc. before I even considered typing a country when the comparison would logically be a continent
comjag
+10
Level 92
May 27, 2016
Not at all. VE is victory in Europe and VJ is victory in (or over) Japan.
jamesd
+3
Level 67
Jul 1, 2016
In the US Navy, V-J Day is officially celebrated as "Victory in the Pacific" Day.
Ainmclarach
+2
Level 71
Dec 13, 2025
The Connecticut town where my American family lives (Moosup) just had their last ever VJ Day parade. They were the last in the country to have one.
musiac123
+4
Level 21
Apr 23, 2019
Australia is a country and a continent
blindcartographr
+4
Level 45
Apr 23, 2019
Nice, what about it. Also, now the continent is more often called Oceania to include the smaller islands and Papua New Guinea.
Qikiq
+4
Level 89
Sep 7, 2021
I did too, until I realized it was simply stating that E stood for Europe and J stood for Japan.
GreenFriday
+5
Level 87
Apr 1, 2016
Just wondering, shouldn't it be Washington DC, also isn't it Macau not Macao?
jamesd
+4
Level 67
Jul 1, 2016
"Macao" is an older traditional Portuguese spelling. "Macau" is the currently accepted Portuguese spelling. The newer "Macau" is slightly more common in English, but both are officially considered acceptable by the Chinese government of Macau. When I was there, about 70% of the street and business signage used the spelling Macau
plattitude
+3
Level 94
Jul 1, 2016
Agreed, when I lived there in 01, Macao was favored by the older Macanese with Portuguese descent, but Macau was more often used.
thisisnotanaccount1234567
+3
Level 45
Apr 11, 2018
Washington is the city, DC (District of Colombia) is the administrative division. "Washington, DC" is equivalent to "Ottawa, Ontario".
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 92
Apr 23, 2019
No, Ontario is 1,000 times bigger than just Ottawa. The city of Washington now encompasses every square molecule of the District of Columbia.
richiesyxx
+3
Level 74
Sep 14, 2023
I the same way, Jacksonville, Florida is exactly the same geographically as Jacksonville County, Florida, the city being coterminous with the county. They are, however, different administrative entities, as are Washington and the District of Columbia.
mrputter
+1
Level 89
Aug 2, 2025
@richiesyxx I'm sorry, what??

Did you mean Duval County, Florida?

FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Dec 13, 2025
Also, that's not even true, since there are four cities in Duval County not merged with Jacksonville.

A better analogy would be New Orleans and Orleans Parish.

mace0windu
+1
Level 67
Jul 1, 2016
2:10 remaingn! Like a boss!
OfTheMountain
+1
Level 61
Jul 1, 2016
I will probably be quickly rebuked here, but could Amish be accepted for Pennsylvania as well? That was the first one I thought of
jmellor13
+4
Level 68
Jul 1, 2016
I tried that too. I think the difference is that, at least according to traditional lore, the colonies of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were "founded" by Puritans and Quakers, respectively. Pennsylvania is named after William Penn, an influential Quaker who established the colony there.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jul 1, 2016
This was not too hard. Only missed Jerry and Versailles. And only missed Versailles because I had no idea what Schonbrunn was.
IsleAuHaulte
+10
Level 92
Apr 23, 2019
The world traveller? For shame.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Apr 23, 2019
I'm sorry that I let you down. I got them all this time.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Apr 22, 2021
I was actually at Schonbrunn in 2016... and Versailles back in 1999, my first trip overseas. But my visit to the former came about 3 months after I left the above comment.
BiggieSmalls
+6
Level 76
Jul 3, 2016
Shouldn't Franz be an accepted answer as well as Jerry for the German soldier question? While the Americans typically used the term "Kraut", the british tended to use Jerry or Franz.
Wilbur
+6
Level 44
Jul 3, 2016
I've never heard of Franz (Brit here) we do use Fritz which I tried and was accepted by the quiz.
Swanbabe
+1
Level 37
Jul 27, 2017
Delectable quiz
AdamH
+3
Level 74
Aug 14, 2018
The sitcom Good Times caused me to try dynomite several times. I like to think that's the reason I missed Versailles and Apollo.
JackintheBox
+3
Level 82
Mar 9, 2019
I've been to both Schönbrunn and Versailles - beautiful places!
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
Apr 23, 2019
Didn't understand Lindbergh and sat on it for at least 2 minutes before it clicked with 20 seconds to go.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 92
Jan 7, 2021
Lindbergh is to men, women and all people realistically.

He wasn't the first to fly the Atlantic, only the first to go alone and much farther than pairs before or Earhart afterwards.

Teegthebeeg
+4
Level 53
Jan 11, 2021
Hardly much further. Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic non-stop 8 years earlier in an open-cockpit plane.
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
Apr 23, 2019
I think Pacific should be an acceptable answer. It is referred to the Pacific theater 95% of the time, not the other theater.
MindWax
+2
Level 87
Aug 1, 2025
Call it "V-P day" and see how many understand wtf you're talking about.
Osiris
+1
Level 68
Apr 23, 2019
I was able to breeze through this quiz for a RARE ace on the first try! I did get a little lucky, though- it accepts Fritz for the German soldier question. I had not heard Jerry before today. I like this site. I still get to learn something new even with a perfect score!
iRDM
+1
Level 81
Sep 14, 2023
neeeeeerd
PrinceEric
+2
Level 56
Apr 24, 2019
Fun fact: There is a Versailles, Kentucky. But you must pronounce it "ver-SAILS"
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 88
Aug 1, 2025
Same in Missouri.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
Apr 24, 2019
It would be nice if there was a short explanation afterwards.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 24, 2019
Especially since the scores are quite low. It is the best way to learn to see what connection you missed, some might click after seeing the answers but not all
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Jun 21, 2019
Which were you not able to piece together?
blizzrd33
+1
Level 81
Jan 6, 2021
In Australia, it has always been referred to as Victory in the Pacific, not V-J. V-E is to V-P would be a better analogy. Or conversely, V-G is to V-J would also be better than the current choice.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Jan 7, 2021
I'm not making up new terms, I'm using existing terms which are V-E Day and V-J day. There is no V-G day.
blizzrd33
+1
Level 81
Dec 22, 2025
I love it when Americans insist that their terms for everything are the only correct ones. To hell with the rest of the world.
Cooldrive
+1
Level 64
Jan 7, 2021
"Asia" would be more in line than "Japan."
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Jan 7, 2021
The J in V-J Day stands for Japan, not Asia.
ZooTuber3000
+2
Level 51
Mar 25, 2021
I believe it's Macau not Macao?
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Apr 22, 2021
It's both.
JohnK
+2
Level 68
Aug 17, 2021
Missed Blu-ray because I was looking for something that won a format war by being worse, but cheaper (like VHS did), not by being better (like Blu-ray did). I didn't think to try a weaker analogy, and just look for format war winners. D'oh!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Sep 4, 2021
Though Betamax had slightly better picture and sound quality, the fact that in 1975 the max recording time was only one hour I think doomed them from the start. This, and the fact that they didn't have whoever Apple hired to do their advertising and thus had a hard time convincing consumers that they ought to pay twice as much for a product that did less of what they wanted, made it pretty obvious Beta would lose from the onset.
Qikiq
+2
Level 89
Sep 7, 2021
I worked for Toshiba during the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray wars and I can tell you the HD-DVD was actually of equal quality. Sony threw so much money at promotion for Blu-Ray in order to avoid another Betamax debacle that HD-DVD never stood a chance.
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Sep 14, 2023
Technically you could get more time out of it than one hour, but that was at a slower recording speed which meant worse quality than at standard speed. When the HD-DVD and Blu-ray war started, Sony was determined not to lose another media format war.
Freedom84
+1
Level 64
Sep 4, 2021
Didn’t work when I wrote

Japan and Uruguay, weird

GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Sep 14, 2023
You've got to type them separately, then it will work
Seanthesheep
+4
Level 76
Sep 4, 2021
Maybe this is a bit of a stretch but I feel like Kraut should be accepted for Jerry. I knew the question was referring to nicknames for soldiers but I've never heard of German soldiers being referred to as Jerries.
Stoggler
+1
Level 55
Dec 13, 2025
Jerry was a common slang word for the Germans during the Second World War in Britain and in Commonwealth countries, but judging by comments on here, it's not so well known elsewhere. Words like kraut or hun were also used (including in the First World War).

For a British person, the question works well, but not sure that's helps or is fair for those non-British and non-Commonwealth takers of the quiz!

Islandcarver
+1
Level 83
Sep 4, 2021
I don't think Kriegsmarine is the correct name, unless you are referring strictly to Nazi Germany. Today, the navy is simply called Marine or Deutsche Marine, while the air force is the Luftwaffe.
martay
+2
Level 69
Mar 20, 2023
The quiz is called "History Analogies". Fair or not, my brain goes directly to Goering and Nazi Germany when I read the word "Luftwaffe".
jennraven
+1
Level 67
Sep 4, 2021
I definitely tried crucifixion for the Sparticus question. Maybe I put crucified?
lemmons
+2
Level 88
Nov 2, 2021
The "to" is missing from the DVD clue
Koopa
+2
Level 88
Mar 15, 2022
I was under the impression that apartheid was official (name and practice), whereas Jim Crow laws were unofficial (practice only, not official name).
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Aug 2, 2025
Well I was under the impression that Jim Crow was someone who had made these laws, so at least you're ahead of me. I was bashing in Verwoerd, Viljoen, Botha etc. etc. etc... I was totally flummoxed when I saw the answer, and that over 70% of people had got it right.
HyddenRizz
+2
Level 67
Sep 30, 2022
Why did I think Schoenbrunn was a bread???
Amilcar
+3
Level 73
Sep 14, 2023
Fatah's relationship to the PLO and Sinn Fein's to the IRA are not analogous. The PLO is an umbrella organisation of which Fatah is the largest constituent group. Sinn Fein is a political party closely aligned with the IRA.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Jan 24, 2024
If you hadn't already done so, i was going to say exactly this.
eliasnice
+1
Level 47
Sep 14, 2023
could RAF be accepted in the luftwaffe question?
Djilas
+2
Level 86
Aug 1, 2025
no because it doesn't say Royal Navy
julienuh
+2
Level 75
Aug 1, 2025
There was an other notable historical fact on september 11th. the coup in Chile (1973). Could it be accepted ?
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 95
Aug 1, 2025
That’s a lot harder to do in Roman numerals though…
Dottyspeck
+1
Level 65
Aug 3, 2025
MCMLXXIII -- not really
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Dec 15, 2025
Yes. It probably ought to say something about twin towers or another clue as to what event that is. Battle of Hastings could only be one thing (although I am typing this in Battle of "Battle of Hastings" fame, so perhaps as the event happened only 300 yards away I might be biased)
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Aug 7, 2025
Learned Troika today, interesting
KatyM
+1
Level 70
Dec 13, 2025
Europe is a continent, Japan is a country. That was not a good analogy at all.
reverendmeat
+3
Level 86
Dec 13, 2025
Do you have a better suggestion for what the J in V-J should stand for then?
Bletsch
+1
Level 71
Dec 15, 2025
Fun quiz. I wasted a lot of time with "Kraut" und "Hun," before I remembered Jerry.
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