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History by Picture - S

Can you name these historic people, places, and things beginning with the letter "S"?
Technically, one of these is prehistoric
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: November 21, 2018
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First submittedAugust 17, 2018
Times taken23,339
Average score72.2%
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type of warrior
writer
made headlines in 1957
built around 2500 B.C.
former country
ancient city-state
The Great Sphinx
leader
U.S. village - 1692
country - former name
weapon
empire
extinct animal
Spanish Empire
leader's title
lost its independence in 1707
religion started in the 1400s
Sikhism
Buddhist monastery founded 464 AD
thousands of peasants died building this city in the early 1700s
leader
31 Comments
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Level 89
Aug 19, 2018
Surprised to see 'Spanish Empire' is the least guessed answer
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Level 76
Nov 18, 2022
Same. I thought even the flag would be more well-known.
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Level 70
Aug 19, 2018
I tried like ten other (more?) valid options for the extinct animal (including the wikipedia way). Finally surrendered. Please allow several of the other alternatives.
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Level 64
Aug 20, 2018
agree
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Level 72
Aug 20, 2018
Like what? 1) what else has teeth like that and 2) begins with an "S"?
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Level 69
Aug 21, 2018
Agree - tried saber/sabre tooth tiger - didn't reallize that wasn't a thing. Cat....
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Level 66
Aug 21, 2018
Saber/Sabre tooth Tiger should have worked
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Level 79
Aug 23, 2018
Sabre-toothed tiger didn't work
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Level 48
Sep 24, 2018
isn't the current way ot thinking saying there was no such thing as a STT ?... just as well it auto- credited me the answer even though i typed tiger.... i am one of those sad people who look at the keys as i type so keep giving too much information
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Level 35
Nov 21, 2018
Wouldn't accept sabre toothed tiger from me. I have never heard it referred to as sabre toothed cat. I believe the names are interchangeable.
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Level 73
Nov 21, 2018
I would make "Sabertooth" also work.
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Level ∞
Nov 21, 2018
Okay
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Level 56
Nov 28, 2018
Several other options with that skull, staring with the letter S???
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Level 64
Aug 20, 2018
I spent lots of time trying to spell shah, but it was sultan :(

Had it included Brunei's flag...

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Level 81
Aug 21, 2018
One of the easier History by letter picture quiz'.. A good one though..
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Level 69
Aug 21, 2018
Not to me - 9 of 18!
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Level 73
Sep 24, 2018
Great series! For some reason I found this S quiz the most difficult.
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Level 87
Nov 21, 2018
"Samurai Shakespeare" would be a great anime series.
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Level 61
Nov 21, 2018
Someone please make this happen.
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Level 81
Nov 21, 2018
I think that picture of Sparta is actually Thermopylae.
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Level 66
Aug 11, 2019
True, but it depicts a Spartan Soldier
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Level 79
Nov 21, 2018
U.S. village 1692? English colony 1692 surely...
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Level 58
Nov 21, 2018
I know it's semantics but Scotland didn't 'lose' it's independence, it's government voted to join the proposed union of the United Kingdom, and therefore freely gave up it's independence in the same way England gave up it's independence by agreeing to the union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Union
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Level 82
Nov 21, 2018
Maybe some more type-ins for Shaoulin? Or I'm just a bad speller.
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Level 66
Nov 21, 2018
Tried Shogun, Then Shauloulin, (Got Lucky) but could not get samurai.
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Level 36
Nov 21, 2018
I thought that the Soviet Union was a union of soviet republics, not one country.
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Level 86
Jul 9, 2020
Haha. Nice joke.
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Level 67
Nov 26, 2018
That image is not Spartan. It is from Thermopylae.
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Level 64
Mar 9, 2022
That's a picture of Sputnik?!?!
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Level 55
Oct 5, 2023
Saint Petersburg feels like a P not a S
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Level 80
Mar 6, 2024
Scotland did not "lose" its independence - its monarch signed an act of union......