Groups of Two- History

Name the members of these historical pairs.

Those marked with asterisks are apocryphal

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Clue	Answer
CSA Capitals	Montgomery
	Richmond
First US Revolution Battles	Lexington
	Concord
Islands Napoleon was Exiled to	Elba
	St. Helena
Wars of the Roses Houses	York
	Lancaster
Homer's Epic Poems*	Iliad
	Odyssey
Greatest Greek City-States	Athens
	Sparta
Major Indian Independence Leaders	Mohandas Gandhi
	Jawaharlal Nehru
German Cold War Capitals	Berlin
	Bonn
WWII US Presidents	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	Harry Truman

Clue	Answer
The Wright Brothers	Orville
	Wilbur
Iron-Age Mesopotamian Empires	Assyria
	Babylon
Uncolonized African Countries	Liberia
	Ethiopia
Hebrew Kingdoms, c. 800 BC	Israel
	Judah
Japanese Cities hit by Atomic Bombs	Hiroshima
	Nagasaki
Famous Viking Explorers	Eric the Red
	Leif Ericson
Founders of Rome*	Romulus
	Remus
WWI UK Prime Ministers	H. H. Asquith
	David Lloyd George
Greatest Mongol Khans	Genghis
	Kublai

Level 55

Dec 22, 2014

I believe it's spelled Iliad.

Level 68

Dec 22, 2014

Thanks.

Level 63

Dec 22, 2014

There are several other famous conquistadors other than the ones you named. De Soto, Vasco de Gama, Balboa, Coronado, etc. You could even count Columbus.

Level 67

Dec 22, 2014

Or it could be clarified that you're asking for the ones that conquered the Aztec and Inca empires.

Level 68

Dec 22, 2014

Of course. I'll specify.

Level 75

Mar 19, 2015

Could you accept more spellings for Ericson? I tried Erikson, Eriksson, and Ericsson before finally getting the one you wanted. Wikipedia uses Erikson.

Level 51

Jun 28, 2022

Can you accept FDR for Franklin D Roosevelt