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Same Start and End Letter - History #2

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: September 29, 2024
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First submittedMarch 28, 2017
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Hint
Answer
A
Ancient Mesopotamian kingdom
Assyria
A
Leader of the huns
Attila
C
Luxury car brand named for the founder of Detroit
Cadillac
D
Celtic priest
Druid
E
Fur often worn by royalty
Ermine
E
Expertise of Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt
Etiquette
G
Most famous battle of the U.S. Civil War
Gettysburg
G
Naval beverage of water and rum
Grog
G
Inventor of the printing press with moveable type
Gutenberg
M
"ism" that led to the Soviet Union
Marxism
N
Frenchman who conquered most of Europe
Napoleon
N
The only U.S. President to resign
Nixon
O
Mr. Von Bismarck
Otto
R
Dueling sword made for stabbing
Rapier
R
Female factory worker of WWII: Rosie the _______
Riveter
R
Head of Standard Oil, he became the first U.S. billionaire
Rockefeller
T
Former country ruled by a Lama
Tibet
T
Dance move popular in the early 1960s
Twist
W
Necessary ingredient for the defenestrations of Prague
Window
X
Company that invented the computer mouse
Xerox
36 Comments
+4
Level 76
Mar 28, 2017
"Herr", nicht "Mr.", für einen Deutschen!
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Level 20
Mar 29, 2017
lol
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2017
Ja, Ich kennst etwas deutsch, but not enough to make a full comment.
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Level 74
Nov 28, 2024
Jup, du hast schon einen Fehler gemacht: "Ich kenne etwas Deutsch" ;)
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Level 90
Aug 8, 2018
Blended very well, Herr Wolf. Not quite as good as Benny Hill but it will do.
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Level 86
Mar 28, 2017
There is a sense in which Menshevism *led* to the Soviet Union, since the Soviet Union was established the year after the Mensheviks were outlawed.
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Level 90
Aug 8, 2018
So you've probably heard of Marxism then?
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Level 82
Sep 30, 2024
My first thought was that Monarchism led to the revolution, and therefore to the Soviet Union.
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Level 87
Mar 29, 2017
Rapier is not light. Many examples are the same weight as lighter longswords, and feel very heavy because they are used one-handed. Smaller thrusting swords like smallsword are an entirely different breed.
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Level ∞
Mar 29, 2017
I suppose its relative, but I see your point so I removed the word light.
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Level 87
Jun 24, 2022
More significantly, it wasn't really designed for stabbing. During the rapier's heyday, in the 16th century, it edge was significantly more popular than the point. (Mercutio discusses this when talking about Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet.) As the point became more popular over the next 150 years, the rapier took a backseat to the 18th century French smallsword.

In fencing, the rapier is the direct ancestor to the modern epee. The smallsword is the direct ancestor to the modern foil.

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Level 73
Mar 29, 2017
I love the hint for W. :)
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Level 68
Apr 11, 2017
Me too, although a window is necessary for *any* defenestration, historical or not :-)
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Level 87
Jan 15, 2019
Do you encounter defenestration in a lot of non-historical contexts? ;)
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Level 72
Aug 5, 2019
Very often
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Level 70
Dec 6, 2021
In 1993, there was a lawyer in Toronto who died by accidentally defenestrated himself from the 24th floor of an office building. In addition to being a lawyer, he was also a formally trained engineer. As such, he was apparently a real admirer of everything that went into designing the safety of high rise buildings. On more than one occasion, he demonstrated that safety by leaping into the floor to ceiling windows of the conference room. He was doing exactly that while giving a tour to a new class of interns when, on the second leap into the window, he manged to dislodged it from its frame and plummeted to his death.
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Level 73
Sep 30, 2024
More than 7 years later, I have no recollection of doing the quiz, but I wanted to write a similar comment when I got to W. :D Some things never change, I guess.
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Level 73
Mar 29, 2017
Great quiz, though a little bit more flexibility on the spelling of Gutenberg would be nice.
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Level 80
Feb 12, 2020
Agreed, I had a double t for a while (not accepted) and had to play around for a bit before I got it.
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Level 83
Apr 1, 2017
Great quiz!
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Level 66
May 1, 2017
W can also be Warsaw :)
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Level 87
Jan 12, 2022
No, you can just as easily do it in Prague. In fact...
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Level 75
Jul 24, 2017
I need to pa closer attention. kept wondering why rosie the riveter wasn't working. tried removing "the" and different spellings of riveter.
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Level 36
Sep 2, 2018
A custom which continues today, what with pubescent girls being betrothed to men old enough to be their fathers. And let's not get

into the trophy wife phenomenon.

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Level 85
Sep 30, 2024
Huh?
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Level 67
Oct 13, 2024
uh what
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Level 47
Sep 20, 2024
It's funny, cause I have a weird love/obsession with ancient Mesopotamia and I kept trying "Akkadia" but it actually ends in N. Dont' know why Assyria didn't pop up first in my head lol.
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Level 72
Sep 29, 2024
For the first couple minutes I thought I was doing word chain lmao I was so confused
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Level 76
Oct 2, 2024
von Bismarck, with a small v
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Level 83
Oct 8, 2024
Feels like there's a few too many steps missing for the Soviet Union question...

"Which state gave way to Croatia?

The Roman Empire"

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Level 51
Nov 28, 2024
For a few seconds, my first instinct on the Tibet question was an Andean load-bearing animal...
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Level 80
Nov 28, 2024
I tried 'Espionage' for Post and Vanderbilt 😄
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Level 72
Nov 28, 2024
I couldn't understand the question at all. I thought it was asking for the title of a professional who is an expert on these two people. :S Maybe if I had known who they were...
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Level 58
Nov 28, 2024
Presumably some modern American version of Nancy Mitford?
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Level 48
Nov 29, 2024
Akkadia should be accepted for ancient Mesopotamian Empire
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Level 49
Nov 30, 2024
Aw man I kept trying Akkadia but I guess people don't really say that, they say Akkadian Empire. sadness