Valid Answer - World History #1

Name any valid answer that corresponds to each of these categories from world history.

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Clue	Valid Answers
The four "elements" as defined by Aristotle	Fire \| Air \| Water \| Earth
Four "great" inventions of ancient China	Compass \| Gunpowder \| Papermaking \| Printing
Brontë sisters	Anne \| Emily \| Charlotte
Royal house of English monarchs	Normandy \| Blois \| Anjou \| Plantagenet \| Lancaster \| York \| Tudor \| Stuart \| Hanover \| Saxe-Coburg and Gotha \| Windsor
Countries that the U.S. declared war on prior to WWI	United Kingdom \| Mexico \| Spain
One of the first five Roman emperors other than Augustus	Tiberius \| Caligula \| Claudius \| Nero
Islands where Napoleon lived	Corsica \| Elba \| Saint Helena
Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England (traditional reckoning)	East Anglia \| Essex \| Kent \| Mercia \| Northumbria \| Sussex \| Wessex
Female authors pen-named "George"	George Eliot \| George Sand
Leo Tolstoy novels	War and Peace \| Anna Karenina \| Resurrection
Barbarian tribes who sacked Rome	Gauls \| Visigoths \| Vandals \| Ostrogoths
Ports where the Barbary Pirates were based	Algiers \| Rabat \| Salé \| Tripoli \| Tunis
Modern-day countries in the New World visited by Columbus on his first voyage	Bahamas \| Cuba \| Haiti \| Dominican Republic
Hanseatic League cities	Lübeck \| Hamburg \| Gdańsk \| Kaliningrad \| Tallinn \| + 36 others
"Great" ancient capitals of China (other than Beijing)	Nanjing \| Luoyang \| Xi'an
Title of nobility carried by peers in the British honours system	Duke \| Marquess \| Earl \| Viscount \| Baron
Five most-mentioned characters in the Iliad	Hector \| Achilles \| Zeus \| Ajax \| Agamemnon
Modern-day capitals that were, at one time, the capital of an Islamic caliphate	Baghdad \| Cairo \| Damascus
Person who was Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in the 1930s	Mohandas Gandhi \| Pierre Laval \| Hugh Johnson \| Franklin D. Roosevelt \| Haile Selassie \| Wallis Simpson \| Soong May-ling \| Chiang Kai-shek \| Adolf Hitler \| Joseph Stalin
Prime Minister of Israel prior to the year 1990	David Ben-Gurion \| Moshe Sharett \| Levi Eshkol \| Golda Meir \| Yitzhak Rabin \| Menachem Begin \| Yitzhak Shamir \| Shimon Peres

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31 Comments

Level 75

Aug 7, 2020

The pen name question is a little confusing. My reading was that you were asking for the names of the female authors, not the pen names.

Level 92

Aug 10, 2020

Agreed, typed Evans half a dozen times before it occurred to me to write the pen surname.

Level ∞

Aug 10, 2020

Changed it to fill-in-the-blank to remove any possible confusion.

Level 68

Dec 10, 2020

I thought you meant the names of their pens.

+15

Level 85

Aug 7, 2020

No credit for "War: What is it Good For?"?

Level 78

Sep 8, 2020

Absolutely nothing.

Level 72

Sep 8, 2020

You know, I tried impressing someone with the trivia that Tolstoy was going to call the book that originally, and the guy got so upset at me that he tossed my electronic address book out of the car window.

Level 89

Sep 8, 2020

Yeah, I don't know if the book would have been as highly acclaimed as it was had it been published under that title. Fortunately his mistress suggested "War and Peace!" ;)

Level 62

Aug 8, 2020

Shouldn't Delhi be added to the 3rd last question? Delhi was the capital of the islamic delhi sultanate

Level 83

Aug 8, 2020

Presumably it's not included because the modern-day capital is New Delhi.

Level ∞

Aug 8, 2020

Caliphate, not sultanate.

Level 67

Sep 8, 2020

Wow, the Hanseatic League. Haven't heard that term since freshman year History class. Was able to get it just by remembering the curriculum for that class.

Level 51

Sep 8, 2020

I only remember it from playing some extremely obscure strategy PC game based around it when I was a kid

Level 66

Sep 17, 2020

Same for me. Darklands. Great game.

Level 66

Sep 8, 2020

It's still around - kind of. Part of the number plate on German cars has 1-3 letters that show where they're registered, and a lot of cities that were members have H as the first letter (HB is Hansestadt Bremen, HGW is Hansestadt Greifswald, HL is Hansestadt Lübeck, etc).

Where I live, HP stands for Kreis Bergstraße. German logic.

Level 86

Sep 8, 2020

Accept Königsburg for Hanseatic cities?

Level 72

Sep 8, 2020

It's Königsberg, not -burg.

Level 62

Sep 8, 2020

I got one question right because I watch The Last Kingdom ;)

Level 75

Sep 12, 2020

And that programme rots your brain so much that 1/20 is the best you could do?

Level 59

Feb 8, 2023

He is saying that one of the questions was gained due to that. Not all.

Level 63

Sep 8, 2020

Great quiz. I usually avoid yellow box quizzes but this was a good one.

Level 80

Sep 8, 2020

Wonder why I never saw Aristotle named as a co-creator for Avatar: The Last Airbender on Nickelodeon. I'll have to mention that to him next time I see him.

Level 62

Sep 8, 2020

Soong Mai Ling and Wallis Simpson " Person of the Year"

Level 58

Sep 8, 2020

Should accept Xian?

Level 81

Sep 9, 2020

it does

Level 65

Sep 9, 2020

Maybe add Bergen in the Hanseatic League list? The city is heavily influence by it's pseudomembership to the organization. They have a Hanseatic Museum and all

Level 45

Sep 14, 2020

I was just about to ask the same.

Level 79

Feb 6, 2023

Soong May-ling was Woman of the Year, not Man

Level 65

Feb 6, 2023

The number of times I tried "Erebus" for "Elba" is a little embarrassing.

Level 46

Feb 6, 2023

i was trying to remember the name of "corsica"

Level 67

Feb 7, 2023

I read the Hanseatic League question as "countries" and I got it with literally one second left. I tried Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and then went on a global journey to Iran through to Ethiopia oops.

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