European History by Letter - Q

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This “Don” is the protagonist of the greatest novel written in Spanish literature

Supervised the treasury of Ancient Rome

The hunchback of Notre Dame

Breton city with a great history of pottery manufacturing

Paris neighborhood and centre of the 1968 student uprising (French name)

Norwegian Nazi leader (Vidkun)

Hundreds of these exist in the area of Tuscan town Carrara, the most famous place to extract white marble

Belgian astronomer and founder of the Brussels observatory (Adolphe)

Nickname of the French Foreign Ministry (because of its location)

Younger brother of Marcus, Rome’s most famous orator, fought the Catilinarian conspiracy

Frankish trade centre near the English Channel (approx. 7th – 9th century)

British designer credited with the invention of the miniskirt (Mary)

Protestant denomination founded by George Fox

To prevent the spread of the plague Venice introduced this 40-day-isolation for ships

The increased use of this mineral in watches by Japanese competitors almost led to the end of Switzerland's watchmaking industry in the 1970s

Arrow-bag important to English longbowmen in the Middle Ages

Peasant leader in the 1914 Albanian revolt (Haxhi)

e.g. the british TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

German family of business tycoons who profited heavily in the Nazi era through forced labour

Roman rhetorician of the 1st century (“institutio oratoria”)