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European History A-Z

Guess these facts about European history - one for each letter of the alphabet.
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A
Birthplace of democracy
Athens
B
Wall that was toppled in 1989
Berlin Wall
C
Best-known crossing point in the above wall
Checkpoint Charlie
D
French city where over 300,000 Allied soldiers evacuated in 1940
Dunkirk
E
Most popular nickname of Rome
The Eternal City
F
Country invaded by the USSR in the Winter War
Finland
G
Birthplace of Christopher Columbus
Genoa
H
Last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England
Harold Godwinson
I
Queen of Castille who married Ferdinand II of Aragon, forming the Kingdom of Spain
Isabella
J
Led the French army in the siege of Orléans, was later burned at the stake
Joan of Arc
K
Title for the German leader in WWI
Kaiser
L
He nailed 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg
Martin Luther
M
German philosopher and author of the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
N
City where pizza was invented
Naples
O
The first modern version of these were held in Greece in 1896
Olympics
P
Religious leader that resides in the Vatican
Pope
Q
Mary Tudor was the first English one of these
Queen
R
Shakespearean character who fell madly in love with Juliet
Romeo
S
Soviet leader during WWII
Joseph Stalin
T
First female British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
U
Caliphate that began its conquest of Iberia in 711 AD
Umayyad Caliphate
V
Seafaring raiders and pillagers, originally from Scandanvia
Vikings
W
Cold War treaty between the USSR and the Eastern Bloc
Warsaw Pact
X
Famous discovery of W.C. Röntgen in 1895
X-Rays
Y
First president of the Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin
Z
Province in the Netherlands after which a country in Oceania was named
Zeeland
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14 Comments
Sankyu99
+5
Level 78
Jan 18, 2023
Yeltsin
Geopro
+1
Level 59
Jan 23, 2023
Yeltsin
bestanford
+4
Level 73
Jan 18, 2023
Yeltsin is misspelled; please also add more generous type-ins for "Umayyad"
QuizzerBros
+4
Level 70
Jan 18, 2023
Fixed the error, thank you. The type ins for Umayyad are JetPunk's automatically applied ones.
cmr0
+1
Level 73
Jan 18, 2023
Yeltsin
Neil
+1
Level 65
Jan 18, 2023
Over 300,000 soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk, but not all British. Many were French.
QuizzerBros
+1
Level 70
Jan 18, 2023
Yes indeed, there were British, French and Belgian soldiers as well.
Geopro
+4
Level 59
Jan 23, 2023
Nice quiz, I enjoyed the nice mixture of easy and slightly harder questions, and the fact that the quiz covers many different aspects of European history :D
QuizzerBros
+1
Level 70
Jan 24, 2023
Thanks!
Fifi567
+1
Level 32
Sep 18, 2024
Nice quiz, nominated!
Viuvictor
+1
Level 46
Oct 14, 2024
You should also accept 'Isabel,' as that is how it is spelled in Spanish
QuizzerBros
+1
Level 70
Oct 14, 2024
I would, but people don't usually like their answer getting accepted before they've finished typing.
TheBigLemur
+1
Level 73
Jun 13, 2025
You should accepts Umayyads and not just Umayyad Caliphate as Caliphate is in the question
QuizzerBros
+1
Level 70
Jul 16, 2025
Umayyad is already accepted
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