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History Generator Puzzle #7

Use the letters in the 3x3 grid to guess these historical answers. In addition, make the 9-letter name of a historical person.
Each grid letter may be used only once within an individual answer
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9-Letter Person
Aristotle
Hint
Answer
Knight's title
Sir
Thrilla in Manila victor
Ali
Greek god of love
Eros
Russian leader before 1917
Tsar
Picasso or Michelangelo, e.g.
Artist
Fur baron John Jacob
Astor
Former currency of Italy
Lira
Rivals of the Whigs (plural)
Tories
Louis XIV: "I am the _____"
State
Prohibition agent Ness
Eliot
Gandhi marched to the sea
to get this
Salt
Hint
Answer
Serbian inventor
Tesla
Antiseptic surgery pioneer
Lister
Yugoslav dictator
Tito
Native American expulsion:
Trail of _____
Tears
Tax collector's punishment:
___ and Feather
Tar
Neighbor of ancient Judah
Israel
New Mexico artist colony
Taos
Hieroglyphics decoding stone
Rosetta
WWII factory worker:
_____ the Riveter
Rosie
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24 Comments
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Level 53
Feb 18, 2015
Oiltaster?
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Level 87
Feb 1, 2017
I came up with that, too. Someone in history must have been an oil taster!
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Level 92
Dec 12, 2018
Oil Can Boyd had to get that nickname from somewhere.
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Level 44
Mar 9, 2015
fur baron John Jacob, my brain finished that with Jingleheimer Schmidt and then couldn't get it out. Sometime my brain doesn't work how I would like.

Also couldn't think of anything other than Jacobite for the Whig one, I blame that on my currently reading Kidnapped.

I enjoyed the quiz despite my malfunctioning brain.

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Level 73
Jul 13, 2015
I feel your pain.
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Level 67
Sep 14, 2018
This pain is my pain too
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Level 89
Dec 12, 2018
I've read an awful lot of comments on this site, and cryingbook's here has to be one of my all-time favorites.
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Level 50
Jul 13, 2015
I did the same thing with John Jacob.
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Level 78
Apr 9, 2015
so Gandhi DIDN'T march to the sea to get toast? How 'bout that.
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Level 87
Feb 17, 2017
I chuckled for an embarrassingly long time at this comment.
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Level 65
Dec 12, 2018
Before I came up with "Tories" I was hung up on the U.S. Whigs, and I knew the letters were not available for "Democrats".
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Level 80
Dec 12, 2018
Maybe its just me, but I don't love when there's 3-letter responses on these quizzes. They just seem like cheap filler when there are still other good answers that could be used. It's like using 2-letter answers in Boggle.
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Level 67
Dec 15, 2018
Or Scrabble. (two letter words in Scrabble are one of my pet peeves).
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Level 96
Mar 27, 2019
I think you only officially get scoring words in boggle for 3 and up but they are pretty pointless as you just try to stop the other guy cashing in. I can't see what is wrong with 2 letter words in scrabble; the idea is to score high and use up letters first and sometimes two tiles are the best way to do that.
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Level 69
Jan 3, 2024
AI and ZA are my favorites in Scrabble. Two letter words are excellent if you're playing to win. Although sometimes you have to open up the board with 5 or 6 letter words.
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Level 47
Dec 13, 2018
Most interesting unclued answer I found: Lestat.
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Level 76
Sep 9, 2019
Let me look, tirol, stola, stair, ow yea more historical ( I am sure there were probably important figures pushed down the stairs...) trail, trial, stole, liars, rats, erm ok I sense a theme hahah

Satire yea I like that one :)

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Level 67
Dec 13, 2018
Tesla was not Serbian. His prime ethnic identity was "Yugoslav," he was born in what is now Croatia and became an American.
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Level 55
May 8, 2022
He was born in Austro-Hungary empire, form Serbian parents And has nothing to do with Croatia.
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Level 83
Mar 4, 2026
Aside from, ya know, being born in what is now a Croatian town.
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Level 88
Mar 4, 2026
Yeah but his entire family were ethnic Serbians. If we were retroactively applying ethnicities to people based on modern day borders, Catherine the Great would be claimed by the Polish and Freud would be Czech.
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Level 67
Nov 20, 2022
Who on earth are Eliot Ness and John Jacob Astor? Someone who died on the Titanic what
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Level 95
Mar 4, 2026
So Jerusalem was not part of ancient Israel. Interesting…
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Level 87
Mar 6, 2026
According to the Biblical account, after Solomon died, ten of the 12 tribes of Israel broke away, leaving only Judah and Benjamin. Thereafter, the 10-tribe kingdom to the north is referred to as Israel, while the 2-tribe kingdom to the south, encompassing Jerusalem, is referred to as Judah.

Assyria conquered Samaria, the capital of the northern 10-tribe kingdom in 740 BCE. They threatened Jerusalem in 732 BCE, during the reign of Hezekiah, but had their entire army of 185,000 men wiped out in one night by God's angel, according to 2 Kings 19:35, following God's assurance that he would defend the city of Jerusalem.