History by Letter 'P' (Multiple Choice)

1. Spartan general who saw the end of Persian desires in the Balkan peninsula.

2. An ancient tribe of people that in today's society would be the 'gifted ones'. Too big. Too stupid. Table manners that would have Nigella Lawson re-reading her guide on etiquette to see if there was anything she had written that could possibly be misunderstood. Sad. A Red Sea Pedestrian killed one of the poor souls with a stone. A stone, no less!

3. To make it easier on themselves, military historians separate the Napoleonic Wars from this little, juicy tea party.

4. He obliged a passerby by lighting his cigarette for him. Eagles. Chains. Livers. Eternal damnation.

5. A one-time planet was recently discovered to be ... er... not actually a planet. There was such an outcry by the people who also want the next James Bond to be a female and African-American with a speech-impediment, that the US government's Department of Naming Planets agreed to let this object keep its status.

6. This group of bastards made legitimate bastards look like they had a long line of heritage going back to the big bang theory.

7. Ā derogatory name in the US for a person of not very high social standing. In the Land of the Platypus it has become a word for a person who throws too many prawns on the hot plate at cook-outs... and imbibes in a beverage that Penelope would not have considered for a foot bath.

8. Queen of the Underworld.

9. A word that means the same as 'infiltrate' without sounding as law-breaking.

10. This male name... in the Land of the Precipitated Pilseners... can be used to provoke... if pronounced politely.