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History by Picture - L

Can you name these people, places, and things beginning with the letter "L"
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: May 14, 2018
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First submittedMay 12, 2018
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territory
person
language
Louisiana Territory
president
leader
never colonized by Europeans
weapon
city
weapon
Little Boy
author
sport
musician
ship
musical instrument
1666 conflagaration
Great Fire of London
Spartan king
region
Wonder of the World
The Levant
Lighthouse of Alexandria
44 Comments
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Level 70
May 13, 2018
Good quiz, nice mixture of facts:
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Level 74
May 14, 2018
Ah - I thought that picture was of the author!
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Level 56
Dec 11, 2020
So did I... Wouldn't have got it right anyway though.
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Level 76
May 15, 2018
Holy crap, the Louisiana territory was THAT BIG? I'm a non-American that has heard about it plenty of times, but I thought it just referred to the state of Louisiana. No wonder the Louisiana Purchase was such a big deal.
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Level 73
May 16, 2018
My thoughts precisely. I tried Louisiana on a guess and was surprised when it actually worked.
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Level 83
May 16, 2018
Yes, it doubled the size of the US at that time. The buildup to it is an interesting read, considering France had just come into possession of the land via Spain, and the US negotiators were authorized only to purchase New Orleans, but jumped at the chance when Napoleon/France offered the entire territory.
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Level 49
Sep 6, 2018
Yes.... less than 3 cents per acre!
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Level 68
Sep 16, 2021
Damn that's dead cheap... wish those prices stayed
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Level 88
May 15, 2018
Got "Lee" as an accidental byproduct of mistyping "Lennon" with two E's. Whee!
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Level 76
May 15, 2018
The person in that picture is not Harper Lee.
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Level ∞
May 15, 2018
Yes, I know. It's a clue that requires connecting the dots.
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Level 70
May 15, 2018
I wonder if anyone got the author not just by chance or guessing...
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Level 48
Aug 30, 2024
I have neither read the book nor watched the movie, and I'm not even from an English-speaking country, but I still know what movie that still is from. However... I read "actor", not "author" :(
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Level 76
May 15, 2018
Yes. I figured it was a common name and tried it out. More for the leader than for the author though.
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Level 73
May 16, 2018
@TheLastFish, I did. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. The movie is quite famous and so is the book. I enjoyed that clue, because it wasn't so on the nose. And the quiz in general is quite interesting too.
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Level 67
Sep 6, 2018
Just FYI; I know the author question is supposed to be a bit of a brain teaser however it could also be misleading for people that don't know and on seeing the answer would just assume Harper Lee is a man.
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2018
I'd imagine many of us did - I read the book in high school, and the movie is an American classic. There weren't many women named Harper back then, (unlike today) so the author's name was an easy one to remember.
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Level 70
Sep 6, 2018
It's a pretty iconic role but one you either know or you don't. Hard to connect the dots if you don't know what you're looking at.
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
It was a man. Her boyhood friend in miniature town nowhere Alabama was Truman Capote.
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Level 74
May 16, 2018
From movie to book to author. 2 dots :-) took me 2 seconds, but then I've both read the book and seen the movie.

I really liked this quiz - I knew all the answers.

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Level 76
May 15, 2018
Accept "Lucitania"? I tried that and didn't even think it would be with an "s". Then wondered what ship it could be.
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2018
I've never even heard of it. Kept thinking: "but the Titanic doesn't start with an L!!!"
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Level 78
Sep 6, 2018
Lucy Tania?
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
Sounds satanic.
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Level 64
May 16, 2018
curious that lincoln and lenin are differently labeled. Both were leaders and presidents.
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Level 83
May 25, 2018
Nope, he was "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union" and "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR"

Communist leaders but also others have often titles with little meaning to outsiders, possibly not even officially highest position in the country, that's why "leader" is used in such cases.

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Level 89
May 18, 2018
Great quiz. One minor typo *Conflagration (not conflagaration)
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Level 82
Sep 24, 2023
Conflagration is still misspelled, though I like the misspelling better for some reason
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Level 75
May 25, 2018
that lighthouse of Alexandria seems a library of Alexandria to me.
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Level 63
Jul 31, 2018
Lol, have you ever seen a lighthouse?
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2018
I knew what it was, but I agree, at first glance it looks more like a library than a lighthouse. I've never seen a lighthouse with so many windows.
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Level 72
Dec 2, 2019
Just to be clear (for both sides) I hope hou guys realize this isnt a photgraph right ;) it is an artist impression. (And contemporary coins that depicted the lighthouse only had a few windows).

(By contemporary I meant, of the same time as lighthouse, not modern/current. Suddenly realized I might have used the word incorrectly, when "contemporary art" suddenly came to mind. English isnt my mothertongue.)

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Level 91
Sep 6, 2018
Without remembering the title, I said to myself I didn't know that Gregory Peck had written enough to be considered an author in addition to an actor. At least it was an easy jump to the answer. It might be an interesting quiz to have famous people who have had success in fields other than what they are most famous for. Something like Gene Hackman and author. Clint Eastwood composer. Bernie Williams musician. Ted Williams fighter pilot.
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Level 68
Sep 6, 2018
A photo of a man instead of the female author... hmmm.
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Level 90
Sep 6, 2018
Well to be fair, if I was given a picture of Harper Lee, I wouldn't figure out who it was.
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Level 74
Sep 6, 2018
But maybe more photos of Harper Lee on this website would help us out
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Level 36
Sep 6, 2018
Exactly! - Knowing that Gregory Peck was known as an actor (whatever other 'sidelines' he may have engaged in, and that the pose is one he assumed in the movie) automatically brings you to the author, Harper Lee.
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
Pretty iconic movie role.
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Level 69
Sep 6, 2018
Any chance you'll accept Lycurgas for Spartan king?
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Level 70
Sep 6, 2018
So I guess I'm the only person who had difficulty with the map. It didn't zoom out so that you could see the continent better. I wasn't sure what I was looking at.
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
You should allow more spelling for John Lennon. I spelled it L-e-n-i-n and got it wrong.
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Level 93
Mar 27, 2019
what I don't get is if they bought the part in alberta and saskatchewan why is that not part of USA today? another sale?
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Level 59
May 9, 2021
When they signed the treaty that the border would be on the 49th parallel, it removed the US claim on this territory in exchange for Canadian claims in today's Minesota and North Dakota.
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Level 44
Apr 10, 2021
Never seen lacrosse looking like that.

As for the Harper Lee question. The image in from a famous scene from To Kill A Mockingbird (her most famous book) I feel like it's widely known 🤷