Fairly Hard History Quiz 2

Leader of Germany during the First World War

Famous Prussian king know as "the great"

The final of the "rightly guided Caliphs" of the Rashidun Caliphate

Painter who chopped his ear off

First female nobel prize winner

Only NBA player to score 100 points in a single game

British Prime minister in 1938 with the same last name

First Prime Minister of Canada

The ____ Empire dominated South East Asia from the 10th to the 13th centuries AD

Location of the first University founded in medieval Bohemia

Mughal Shah who had the Taj Mahal built

The final Western Roman Emperor

American General with numerous tanks named after him

The name of the railway that connects Western Russia to the Pacific Ocean

Famous cruel Belgian ruler of the Congo

Battle where Octavian's navy defeated that of Marc Antony and Cleopatra

These two rivers were defacto borders of the Roman Empire in the north across Europe

(The second river)

Religion of the Sassanian Empire

Who the Great Pyramid at Giza was built for

The Eye of _____ is a famous symbol of Ancient Egypt

Greek playright who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex"

A tutor to Alexander the Great and a student of Plato

Often referred to as the inventor of the scientific method

The War of the Roses was fought between the English Lancaster and ____ dynasties

The name of the steppe tribe who invaded and settled in modern day Hungary in the 9th Century AD

What Triangular edifices in Ancient Egypt were NOT built by slaves

The Architect who we attributed the design of the first (step) pyramid to

Polish Astronomer who proved Heliocentrism

The name of Marx's famous work on Capitalism