Historical Figures A to Z

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	Hint	Answer
A	English computer scientist, prosecuted for homosexual acts	Alan Turing
B	American traitor who switched sides with the UK	Benedict Arnold
C	Final and greatest empress of Russia	Catherine, the Great
D	Prophet who survived the Lion's Den	Daniel
E	Longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor	Elizabeth I
F	Famous singer who died of HIV/AIDS	Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara)
G	Bosnian Serb who was fed up with the Archduke	Gavrilo Princip
H	Emperor who built a wall to seperate Scotland	Hadrian
I	Yugoslav novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961	Ivo Andrić
J	Just brother of Jesus, was martyred in 62 AD	Saint James
K	1800s German political theorist	Karl Marx
L	Belgian king who treated the Congolese cruelly	Leopold II
M	Member of the Second Triumvirate and lover of Cleopatra	Mark Antony

	Hint	Answer
N	Chairman who denounced Stalin	Nikita Khrushchev
O	First Holy Roman Emperor	Otto the Great
P	Frenchman who betrayed his people	Philippe Pétain
Q	Ancient emperor poisoned by mercury in a quest for immortality	Qin Shi Huang
R	US President who resigned	Richard Nixon
S	Orwell called him a "Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being"	Salvador Dali
T	Evil, undefeated Turco-Mongol conqueror	Timur / Tamerlane
U	General of the Union and 18th President of the USA	Ulysses S. Grant
V	French playwright who wrote Candide	Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
W	The last Kaiser	Wilhelm II
X	Greek mercenary and historian	Xenophon
Y	Chairman of the PLO for 35 years	Yasser Arafat
Z	Persian Prophet who invoked Ahura Mazda	Zoroaster

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2 Comments

Level 73

Apr 15, 2026

Charlemagne reigned before Otto the Great as the Holy Roman Emperor.

Otherwise, good quiz!

Level 37

Apr 16, 2026

i was aware of this fact but there aren't that many historical figures whose names begin on O & most people generally think of the HRE as starting with Otto.

"While earlier Frankish and Italian monarchs had been crowned as Roman emperors, the actual Holy Roman Empire is often considered to have begun with the crowning of Frederick Barbarossa who called the empire "the holy empire", however in general it is already attributed to Otto I"

-Wikipedia, List of Holy Roman Emperors

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