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History Generator Puzzle #1

Use the letters in the 3x3 grid to guess these historical answers. In addition, make the 9-letter name of a historical person.
Each grid letter may be used only once within an individual answer
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Last updated: December 10, 2019
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First submittedJanuary 22, 2015
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9-Letter Person
Cleopatra
Hint
Answer
NATO rival: Warsaw ___
Pact
"In Cold Blood" author
Capote
What one could find at Delphi
Oracle
Author Edgar Allan
Poe
American Red Cross founder
_____ Barton
Clara
Versailles or Buckingham, e.g.
Palace
Druid's ethnicity
Celt
English noble rank
Earl
Aristotle's teacher
Plato
Area of Russia where Jewish
settlement was allowed
Pale
Hint
Answer
Once a major export of China
Tea
Pablo Escobar led one
Cartel
Gunfighter Wyatt
Earp
Shakesperean king
Lear
Songwriter Porter
Cole
French royal dynasty
Capet
To make a speech in the
manner of Cicero
Orate
Fawkes: The Gunpowder ____
Plot
John Wilkes Booth's profession
Actor
Spiked anti-cavalry weapon to
scatter on the ground
Caltrop
19 Comments
+3
Level 76
Jan 24, 2015
Please allow alternative spelling "caltrap" (there are several listed in wikipedia, but this one fits the grid too!).
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Level ∞
Jan 24, 2015
Okay
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Level 84
Jan 26, 2015
I think you meant to say anti-cavalry weapon, not calvary. Calvary is the Jesus hill.
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Level ∞
Jan 26, 2015
Fixed
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Level 74
Mar 9, 2015
Some difficult ones here for me. Enjoyed it even though I couldn't get Cleopatra.
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Level 76
Mar 9, 2015
"Each grid letter may be used only once within an individual answer". What about Clara and Palace?
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Level 63
Mar 9, 2015
The two As are two separate grid letters
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Level 42
Mar 11, 2015
This might be nitpicking, but I am not entirely happy with "Pale". as far as I know, the area is always referred to as the "Pale of Settlement" (it is almost like accepting "war" for "war of the Roses").
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Level 60
Mar 26, 2015
How sure are we Escobar never led an opera?
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Level 59
Jun 23, 2015
Or coal exported from China?
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Level 83
Jan 29, 2017
I'm guessing coal is still an important export.
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Level 71
Jan 18, 2016
Super creative idea!
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Level 46
Dec 26, 2016
Guessed the nine letter name in the first second of the game before i got the clues!
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Level 85
Sep 12, 2018
Surely the dynasty is "Capetian". Capet was the house, but the dynasty is never referred to as that, in the same way that the Angevin dynasty is never called Anjou.
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Level 95
Sep 12, 2018
i expected the answers to form some sort of clue for the last name, it turns out this is not the case.

Anyway, IMHO the 3x3 scheme would be way more useful if the words could be formed only by connecting adjacent letters.

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Level 45
Sep 12, 2018
Apparently I'm dyslexic. This was awful for me.
+3
Level 77
Sep 12, 2018
I thought this was a Boggle-style connect the letters quiz and got very confused.
+1
Level 83
Nov 21, 2022
Lvl 72, let's go!
+2
Level 85
Feb 17, 2023
“Shakespearean” is missing an a.