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History by Letter - L

Can you name these historical people, places, and things that begin with L?
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Last updated: March 26, 2020
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First submittedJune 10, 2014
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Name of 18 French kings
Louis
John Wilkes Booth's victim
Abraham Lincoln
Hezbollah's home turf
Lebanon
Enemies of the House of York
House of Lancaster
Language of ancient Rome
Latin
First to fly solo and non-stop
from New York to Paris
Charles Lindbergh
Leader of the Bolsheviks
V. I. Lenin
He nailed 95 theses to a
German church door
Martin Luther
Stick game invented by
indigenous Canadians
Lacrosse
African country founded for
freed American slaves
Liberia
Hint
Answer
Belgian king who personally
owned the Congo
Leopold II
Ocean liner sunk by a U-boat in 1915
Lusitania
Spartan leader at Thermopylae
Leonidas
French "Father of Modern Chemistry"
Antoine Lavoisier
Aerial warfare branch of Nazi Germany
Luftwaffe
Presumably, Stanley found him
David Livingstone
With Clark, he explored the
Louisiana Purchase
Meriwether Lewis
Egyptian city once called Thebes
Luxor
One-time capital of the Mughal
and Sikh empires
Lahore
Germanic tribe who ruled Italy
from 568 to 774
Lombards
52 Comments
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Level 34
Aug 26, 2014
Spelled Lusitania wrong
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Level 71
Apr 30, 2015
Same- Spelled it Lucitania
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Level 71
Aug 19, 2021
Yeah it looks better like that honestly
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Level 67
Mar 25, 2024
I did Lusitiana so many times

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Level 69
Aug 26, 2014
Please accept Langobards
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Level 67
Apr 9, 2017
Yeah, Langobards and Longobards would be nice type-ins. Though admittedly I'm biased since I failed that question because the German word is “Langobarden” and I translated it to Langobards.
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Level 71
Sep 27, 2017
then maybe you should accept longboards aswell;)
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Level ∞
Jul 27, 2019
Langobards / Longobards will work now.
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Level 33
May 7, 2018
I too knew Langobards and Lombards didn’t come to mind.
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Level 69
Feb 17, 2021
I had no idea those were the same thing!
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Level 81
Oct 20, 2014
Just missed the Spartan king Leonidas --- haven't read ancient Greek history for about 40 years.
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Level 74
Apr 9, 2017
Same here. Leonardo was as close as I could come.
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Level 63
Sep 26, 2016
On the list of impossible to spell: Lavoisier
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Level 58
Jan 2, 2017
Knew it but couldn't spell it.
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Level 56
Apr 9, 2017
Could spell it but didn't remember it.
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Level 85
Jun 18, 2017
Kicking myself for not remembering him. Had a French exchange student tell me how to pronounce his name properly. A French name, spoken by someone from France, is beautiful. A French name, spoken by someone from the US, is a catastrophe.
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Level 80
Nov 28, 2024
Antoyn Lavoyzeer :D
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Level 59
Aug 22, 2020
Montpelier, Vermont is the pinnacle of it all. Mont-PEE-lee-er. A shame, and 100% American.
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Level 65
Apr 18, 2022
New Orléans. Commonly butchered by mainly ignoring the accent on the second e
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Level 81
Apr 9, 2017
All this time I thought it was 95 feces that Luther nailed to the door of the church... theses... that makes more sense.
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Level 74
Apr 9, 2017
Then there's the high school student who reported that Luther nailed 95 theocrats to the church door because they fed him a Diet of Worms.
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Level 91
Mar 27, 2020
I'd be quite impressed with seeing someone nailing the fecal matter of 95 different individuals to a single door. You'd have to wonder how he would get them to stay up there.
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2020
Maybe nail a flaming bag of feces to the doors, or just a bag as the flames would make the bag fall.
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Level 69
Feb 17, 2021
Why would it have to be from different individuals, and obviously, you'd put it in little individual bags, little an advent calendar.
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Level 91
Aug 12, 2024
Well I imagine it would not be pleasant to have to crap out 95 different turds
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Level 40
Mar 29, 2020
that must be a smelly door with 95 feces on it lol
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Level 87
Apr 9, 2017
Louis XVII was never really king of France. Only the royalists considered that the imprisoned son of Louis XVI was the legitimate king from his father's beheading (in january 1793) until his death (which must have occured in 1795). Of course his uncle chose the number Louis XVIII, but he was only the 17th Louis ;).
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Level 69
Feb 17, 2021
Maybe they count Louis-Philippe as a French king named Louis, then we're back to 18.
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Level 36
Sep 15, 2017
Save me from morons who believe their irreverence is SOOOOOOO brilliant that it must be shared!
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Level 81
Dec 13, 2019
If I respond to this you're going to claim that you're not responding to me again, right?
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Level 81
Mar 27, 2020
Also, thanks so much for sharing your irreverence.
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Level 59
Mar 9, 2018
Kept trying Lacross and wondering why it wouldn't accept, didn't realise there was an e on the end. Whoops.
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Level 66
Mar 27, 2020
literally same
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Level 36
Apr 4, 2018
Some consistency please. You routinely leave us with a hanging "h" when we type "Riyadh", yet demand the "e" in Livingstone. Also, Liberia was founded FOR, not BY freed slaves.
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Level 75
Mar 26, 2021
We're now left with a hanging 'e' here. Thanks for helping to make Jetpunk a tiny bit more annoying 👍
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Level 73
Apr 7, 2022
Lads, lads, lads… have a look in the top right of your keyboards, you’ll see a button with a left-pointing arrow on it. It might say ‘backspace’ or ‘delete’ on it. Hit that one time, that’s gonna solve all of your problems. Well, most of them.
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2018
tried Lufthansa and German Wings for luftwaffe...
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Level 72
Nov 20, 2019
I guess that didn't fly.. ;)
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Level 60
Mar 28, 2020
Maybe accept Lancastrians for enemies of the House of York?
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Level 59
Jul 25, 2021
I don't recall there being a House of Lancastrians though.
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Level 69
Oct 20, 2020
I somehow remembered Antoine Lavoisier but forgot about Abraham Lincoln–oops
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Level 71
Aug 19, 2021
I love how I tried Lannister before Lancaster
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Level 78
Apr 6, 2022
While it is correct that the aerial warfare branch of Nazi Germany was called Luftwaffe, the term is not restricted to Nazi Germany but is just the German word for air force. Germany's air force has been and is still called Luftwaffe since it's beginnings. Even another country's air force is referred to as that country's Luftwaffe. So, the Royal Air Force becomes the Britische Luftwaffe in German. Not sure if they'd approve...
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Level 85
Jan 7, 2023
As a New Yorker, I have to point out that lacrosse originated with Iroquois on both the American and Canadian sides of the St. Lawrence.
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Level 71
Jul 16, 2024
accept lax for lacrosse?
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Level 73
Aug 12, 2024
"Country that controlled U.S.A. territory until 1803" -> France

Does it sound wrong? Well, it's about as correct as the one about Lombards and Italy.

I mean: much of Italy was controlled by Lombards, but the parts that weren't were and are very important.

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Level 55
Aug 12, 2024
The German Air Force is still called Luftwaffe.
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Level 77
Aug 12, 2024
Yet another quiz with the obscure Livingstone anecdote.
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Level 79
Aug 12, 2024
I don't see what's obscure about it - it's one of the most famous episodes in the history of the exploration of Africa.
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Level 49
Aug 13, 2024
Luther king doesn't count but Martin Luther does?
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Level 48
Aug 13, 2024
different guy — martin luther was a german priest in the 15th/16th century who essentially caused the protestant/catholic schism. martin luther KING was an african-american civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s
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Level 47
Sep 23, 2024
Great quiz, as always.