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History by Letter - A

Can you name these historical people, places, and things beginning with the letter A?
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First submittedMay 18, 2014
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First man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong
"Great" conqueror of Persia
Alexander
Philosopher who tutored the above
Aristotle
Winning side of WWII
Allies
Losing side of WWII
Axis
Country that joined with Castille
Aragon
Second President of the U.S.
John Adams
Former name of Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Hun called the "Scourge of God"
Attila
Capital of the Mughal Empire and
site of the Taj Mahal
Agra
Saint who wrote "Confessions"
Augustine of
Hippo
Capital of the Khmer Empire,
famous for its "Wat"
Angkor
First Roman emperor
Augustus
Civilization whose capital
was Tenochtitlan
Aztec
System of segregation that
Nelson Mandela fought against
Apartheid
Country invaded by the USSR in 1979
Afghanistan
First person to reach the South Pole
Roald Amundsen
Greek inventor who cried "Eureka!"
Archimedes
Founding father of modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk
Mesopotamian empire from
2500 BC to 605 BC
Assyria
Tribe that gave its name to England
Angles
Muhammad's successor
(according to Shiites)
Ali
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History by Letter - B
Such as a deaf German composer.
History by Letter - G
Such as an Indian independence leader.
History by Letter - N
Such as the victorious admiral at Trafalgar.
History by Letter - S
Such as an Elizabethan playwright sometimes called "The Bard".
39 Comments
livold
+7
Level 32
May 21, 2014
AWESOME! MORE
Moosefight
+3
Level 59
May 22, 2014
This was a good quiz.
azteque316
+2
Level 71
May 23, 2014
Only missed the successor of Muhammad... and tried so many names like Abdulllah,etc..
Triptych
+1
Level 65
Jul 24, 2025
Me too.

Abu Bakr was my first thought as my kinfolk are Sunni. Omar is across the aisle, too

tpfllt
+13
Level 43
May 24, 2014
Only got Ali because I can't spell Allies. Still didn't get Allies. Oops.
ColoHarpare
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Level 49
May 24, 2014
Great quiz!
Frankthetriviaman
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Level 37
Jun 14, 2014
Great quiz! Dumb question though: wasn't it the Saxons that gave England its name?
ColoHarpare
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Level 49
Jul 11, 2014
Then it would be "Saxonia" or something like that. Think of it as Anglo-Saxon, Angles, Angle-land, England.
Sifhraven
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Level 76
Nov 18, 2019
The names sussex essex and wessex Are from the saxons (south, east, west saxon)
Teegthebeeg
+3
Level 53
Feb 6, 2020
The non English nations of the British Isles do call them after the Saxons - they're Saes in Welsh and Sassenach in Gaelic.
Triptych
+2
Level 65
Jul 24, 2025
Thanks for outing our slur >: - l
EcceHomo
+3
Level 86
Jul 31, 2020
Too bad this quiz ain't conducted in Gaelic innit.
thecoolestdude2
+1
Level 67
Jul 11, 2014
This entire series is awesome! I got all of 'em.
plattitude
+2
Level 94
Aug 22, 2016
Got my sects crossed, kept trying variants of Abu Bakar.
loganite
+4
Level 93
Aug 22, 2016
Yep, Shiites are Ali Bakr's not Abu Bakr's
cricketwes
+1
Level 56
Aug 23, 2016
Could also have 2nd man on the Moon (Aldrin)
MasterKenobi
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Level 65
Sep 3, 2016
Only 73% of quiz takers knew that John Adams was the second president?! The other 27% better not be American...
brandybuck96
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Level 82
Oct 9, 2016
Maybe they are. Not everyone's American. Having said that, I'm British and I knew it.
ajbeck
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Level 92
Jan 7, 2018
69% actually
Sealantmajor
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Level 55
Jan 11, 2017
Isn't it supposed to be Anglo, not Angle? Angle is more of geometry, don't you think?
APHill
+8
Level 76
Feb 1, 2017
The tribe was not the "Anglos", it was the "Angles".
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Aug 15, 2017
I was taught that it was Anglo-Saxon, not Angle-Saxon. And that the "Anglo" part became England and the "Saxon" part France.
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Sep 2, 2017
Not quite correct there, see: http://listverse.com/2016/06/28/10-overlooked-facts-about-the-anglo-saxons/
FolgoreCZ
+8
Level 59
Aug 20, 2021
-o is often used in connected terms like that, even if the original word have different letter in that palce. For example Czecho-Slovakia comes from the word Czechia, or anracho-capitalism, from the word anarchy and so on.
affensau
+1
Level 39
Jul 27, 2018
USSR didnt invade afghanistan but came to help the legitimate government who called for help fighting the taliban.
amm14
+8
Level 68
Apr 2, 2019
They also defended the legitimate governments of Hungary and Czechoslovakia from imperialist counter-revolutionary activity in 1956 and 1968 respectively.
blindcartographr
+1
Level 45
Apr 17, 2019
No. Read "The Broken Circle" a book I randomly found on Amazon Kindle, and you will see this invasion in a whole new light.
CrazyBug
+3
Level 71
Aug 16, 2019
Wow, no women.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Oct 25, 2019
why wow?
poltergeist
+1
Level 65
Oct 25, 2019
Please accept Abyssnia.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 11, 2021
Okay.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Jan 18, 2020
Some how got Abyssinia when guessing for Assyria lol. Didn't expect to get a lot of these.
Yeoryios
+2
Level 71
Mar 6, 2021
Can Aksum work for Ethiopia?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 11, 2021
Yes
Vinni3000
+2
Level 58
Aug 19, 2021
could you accept Aristoteles?
FunGhoul
+1
Level 53
Mar 11, 2024
And maybe Augustinus?
Dimby
+1
Level 83
Jun 23, 2023
Dang... I thought for sure when I saw 2500 BC that the answer would be Akkadian... I suppose they didn't last nearly as long as the actual answer, though.
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 74
Mar 11, 2024
Aristotle?? Seriously? Accept Aristoteles.
TheBlueWhale
+1
Level 23
Jul 6, 2025
I spent ages trying to spell Ayutthaya, 'annoyed grunt'!
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