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Same Start and End Letter - History #1

Guess these historical answers that start and end with the same letter.
All the answers are a single word
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Last updated: June 13, 2017
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First submittedMarch 28, 2017
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Letter
Hint
Answer
A
Egyptian city known for its library
Alexandria
A
Largest land mass that was still undiscovered in 1800
Antarctica
A
City captured and burned by William Tecumseh Sherman in 1864
Atlanta
D
South Dakota boom town from the Black Hills gold rush
Deadwood
E
Animal that symbolized the Roman legions
Eagle
E
Crime of Mata Hari and Aldrich Ames
Espionage
F
Fat knight from "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Falstaff
G
Luftwaffe commander during WWII
Göring
G
Term for a Soviet labor camp
Gulag
H
Ancient Egyptian symbol
Hieroglyph
M
Period of 1,000 years
Millennium
N
The first scientist to describe gravity
Newton
N
Ethnicity of William the Conqueror
Norman
P
Alexander the Great's father
Philip
R
French impressionist painter
Renoir
R
Feudal landowner who levied illegal tolls: _____ Baron
Robber
S
STD that probably came from the New World
Syphilis
T
Type of powerful catapult
Trebuchet
T
Synonym of autocrat
Tyrant
W
City that was destroyed by the Nazis in late 1944
Warsaw
28 Comments
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Level 83
Mar 28, 2017
Very interesting quiz!
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Level 76
Mar 30, 2017
Flagstaff? I was close, wasn't I?
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Level 71
Jun 12, 2017
This is what too much geography does to Jetpunkers.
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Level 74
Oct 10, 2024
Same for me with Renoir. I tried Remoir, Rumier, Renout, Renier... just couldn't quite remember the darn name.
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Level 85
Mar 31, 2017
Drew a complete blank on hieroglyph. Should have known that.
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Level 87
Apr 25, 2017
The question should ask for a writing character, not just a symbol.
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Level 61
May 23, 2017
Agree. I was thinking of an ankh, eye or Horus, etc. given the clue. "Ancient Egyptian writing" would have been much clearer.
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Level 72
Jun 12, 2017
I agree. It took me forever to get hieroglyph because of the wording. I was also thinking like "ankh, eye of Horus, scarab... none of these begin with H".
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Level 74
Oct 10, 2024
Yeah, but also, none of these start and end with the same letter. Always pay attention to the aim of the quiz.
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Level 43
Jun 12, 2017
Undiscovered? Not discovered?
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Level 76
Jun 12, 2017
Alexander the Great's dad? I think he called him "Pop." Hey, it fits the criteria and who can say for sure what he called him?
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Level 83
Mar 26, 2024
Given that the English language didn't even exist when Alexander was alive, I think I can say with 99.99% certainty that he did not call him "Pop." 😛
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Level 58
Oct 10, 2024
Well, in ancient greek, one of the words for dad was, "pappa". It's hard to say whether that particular word would have been used in Macedonia or not, since they had a fairly distinct dialect of Greek, but "pappa" is where the English term "pop" comes from, so OP most likely isn't that far off...
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Level 31
Jun 18, 2017
Noticed in the very last second that there are letter clues out to the left. That would have been useful.
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Level 36
Aug 22, 2017
The German air force is still called the Luftwaffe.
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Level 84
Oct 17, 2017
But it has a different commander.
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Level 36
Apr 8, 2019
^The poster to whom I was responding has deleted his/her post.
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Level 69
Mar 21, 2020
I don't think a trebuchet is considered to be a type of catapult, it works on an entirely different mechanism
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Level 79
Feb 1, 2022
You probably could've taken a second to Google it. I did just now and yup, a catapult is a thing that lobs projectiles. Trebuchets lob projectiles.
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Level 78
Jan 15, 2023
Accept Totalitarian for Tyrant? It's a synonym of Autocrat
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Level 74
Sep 1, 2023
But doesn't have the same start and end letter, which is actually the title of the quiz
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Level 74
Oct 10, 2024
I have a minor objection to this clue. Tyrant isn't really a 1:1 synonym for Autocrat, is it? You could say that all tyrants are autocrats, but not all autocrats are tyrants; some can be benevolent dictators. Also, tyranny refers to opression and injustice, which can come in different shapes and sizes, and isn't strictly confined to single autocrats; it could also come from an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or a beaurocracy.
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Level 65
Jul 19, 2024
The Robber Baron question is wrong. The term is never used for feudal landholders (literal barons) but for 19th century industrialists.
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Level ∞
Sep 29, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(feudalism)
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2024
For some reason the quiz is not accepting the (W) answer for the last question. I am typing the answer multiple times correctly and it is like it isn't even registering it. Is there a glitch or is there a problem on my end?
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Level ∞
Sep 29, 2024
Fixed, sorry
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Level 77
Oct 10, 2024
Totalitarianist for Synonym of autocrat? Or did I just make up a word? :)
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Level 80
Oct 10, 2024
I tried 'Rener' for Renoir and it was accepted :D