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Odd One Out - History

For each category, name the option that doesn't fit.
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1. Axis leaders in World War II
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hirohito
Francisco Franco
Though he ideologically supported the Axis, Spain (under Franco) remained neutral during the entirety of the Second World War.
2. Battles lost by France during the Napoleonic Wars
Austerlitz
Waterloo
Leipzig
Trafalgar
Austerlitz was won convincingly by Napoleon - so much so that it was a direct cause for the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
3. Founding Fathers of the United States
John Jay
James Madison
Andrew Johnson
Alexander Hamilton
Johnson served as U.S. President from 1865 to 1869 - after Lincoln was assassinated.
4. African Dictators of the 20th century
Idi Amin
François Duvalier
Mobutu Sese Seko
Teodoro Obiang
Duvalier (nicknamed "Papa Doc") was the ruler of Haiti between 1957 and 1971.
5. Members of the Holy Roman Empire
Bohemia
Hungary
Geneva
Flanders
Hungary was never part of the HRE - they only united with Austria (a famous HRE member) in 1867, after the Empire's dissolution.
6. Mesoamerican Civilizations
Maya
Zapotec
Guaraní
Olmec
The Guaraní are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples (not a civilization) originating from present-day Paraguay.
7. Countries formerly of French Indochina
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia
Thailand
Thailand was never part of French Indochina - it was actually never directly ruled by any European power.
8. Roman Emperors
Claudius
Caligula
Augustus
Julius Caesar
Though he might have shown the qualities of an Emperor, Julius Caesar never claimed the title of Emperor.
9. Democratic Party Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower ran in 1952 and 1956 as a Republican.
10. Chinese dynasties
Ming
Xian
Qing
Han
Xi'an was the capital of many dynasties (incluiding the Han), but never the name for a dynasty itself.
11. Pacific Territories formerly owned by the British
Pitcairn Islands
Fiji
Hawaii
Solomon Islands
Even though they have the Union Jack on their flag, Hawaii was never directly owned nor controlled by the British.
12. Ancient Greek philosophers
Socrates
Sophocles
Zeno of Elea
Thales
Sophocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian, not a philosopher.
13. South American Libertadores
Simón Bolivar
Pedro I of Brazil
José de San Martín
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Though a contemporary to the Libertadores, López de Santa Anna initially opposed independence for Mexico (his home country), and is better known for ruling his nation during the Mexican-American War.
14. Scientific Revolution thinkers
Andreas Vesalius
Nicolaus Copernicus
Lord Kelvin
Galileo Galilei
Lord Kelvin (born William Thomson) was a very important 19th century scientist, but the Scientific Revolution only lasted between the 16th and 17th centuries.
15. Kings of the United Monarchy (of Israel and Judeah)
Solomon
Isaac
David
Saul
Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites - but he never ruled any kingdom.
16. Italian Renaissance Artists
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Dante Alighieri
Sandro Botticelli
Dante was a famous writer of the late 13th and early 14th century - over 100 years before the start of the Renaissance.
17. "Great" Rulers
Charles II of Spain
Peter I of Russia
Frederick II of Prussia
Cyrus II of Persia
Charles II of Spain was actually known as "El Hechizado" (The Bewitched) due to his physical disabilities. Honestly, not that Great.
18. Mesopotamian Civilizations
Assyrians
Hittites
Sumerians
Babylonians
Though the Hittites controlled a portion of Upper Mesopotamia for some time, they were based in Anatolia, not Mesopotamia.
19. Non-Aligned Movement founders
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Suharto
Josip Broz Tito
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indonesia was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, but it joined in 1961 - under the rule of Sukarno (Suharto began his tenure in 1967).
20. French Enlightenment thinkers
Denis Diderot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
Auguste Comte
Comte was a 19th century philosopher and a predecessor to modern sociology, but was not part of the French Enlightenment Era - which ended after the French Revolution.
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