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History by Picture - P

Can you name these historic people, places, and things that begin with the letter "P"?
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: July 9, 2018
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First submittedJuly 8, 2018
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Average score66.7%
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leader's title
activist
Greek god
empire - 500 B.C.
temple
former country
Persian Empire
Papal States
explorer
artist
city
former country (in blue)
former name
weapon
creator of this model
former terrorist group / freedom fighters
naval base
belief system started by this guy
early writing material
style of hat worn by Truman
Protestantism
Panama Hat
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Level 71
Jul 9, 2018
Good quiz, I like the use of 'Prussian Blue' for the country? question.
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Level 66
Jul 9, 2018
Thanks
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Level 57
Oct 9, 2018
I was gonna say the same thing! "Prussian Blue."
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Level 71
Jul 15, 2018
Just one comment, I don't think Ptolemy produced that map, it has the Americas beautifully mapped, but Ptolemy died in 160 AD, unless he was a time traveller.
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Level 83
Jul 15, 2018
Hence why the question is referring to the model depicted rather than the drawing itself.
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Level 66
Jul 16, 2018
Peiping should be acceptable.
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Level 89
Apr 7, 2019
And just Pekin without the G as in Peoria's little brother city.
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Level 72
Jul 18, 2018
For the antepenultimate question, could the persons name not be an acceptable answer or at least a type in?
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Level 79
Jul 20, 2018
Partin Puther?
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Level 89
Apr 7, 2019
Good one, Puftytufty.
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Level 72
Sep 28, 2023
Yeah, not sure quite what I was on about there.
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Level 74
Oct 8, 2018
May you accept Ptolemaios fot Ptolemy?
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Level 75
Oct 8, 2018
Great quiz series. Before I started I immediately thought of Pliny the Elder, Pythagoras, Peloponnesian, Pizarro, Peary, and Pocahontas. I was surprised that none of them were on there.
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Level 80
Oct 8, 2018
If the PLO is going to be labelled a terrorist group, it's only fair to list Israel as an apartheid state.
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Level 57
Oct 9, 2018
What would you prefer them to be labelled as: "Freedom Fighters"? That's up for debate. If they've used terrorist tactics, like suicide bombings and targeting civilians, then the term "terrorists" is apt. One could argue the same point about the IRA. A person's bias regarding the labeling of such groups, no matter how "noble" their end goals, really is a question of tactics, and whether you believe such tactics are appropriate and/or justified. Do the ends justify the means? Before anyone responds with, "yes but 'legitimate' governments have committed such atrocities against civilians, too," I am well aware of that fact, but that's not the issue in question. Sadly, too often throughout human history, the terms "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" could be used interchangeably.
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Level 78
Oct 16, 2018
The problem is that "terrorist" is such loaded word that it is not apt for use in any neutral discussion. You won't find history books talking about the "US terrorist founding fathers" or the "terrorist October revolutionaries", even though they also used terrorist tactics.
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Level 74
Nov 19, 2018
What rocamorar said. Not to mention suffragettes.

Guerilla fighters, militants, or insurgents are all more neutral alternatives. At least the quizmaster has put two options in the description for now.

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Level 89
Apr 7, 2019
Like the Free French and the Yugoslav partisans, like U.S. patriots tarring and feathering their legitimate government officials from England, any civilian who's ever shot back at an invader, in the clothes he happens to be wearing instead of waiting for a uniform to be brought through enemy lines.
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Level 92
Oct 29, 2021
But Israel and Apartheid don't start with "P".
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Level 72
Jan 29, 2022
If you think that Israel is an apartheid state, than you don't have a clue what apartheid means.
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Level 66
Oct 8, 2018
Your hat looks more like a Pork Pie hat rather than a Panama. The flat top without a crease down the centre along with the narrow turned up brim define the Pork Pie over the Panama, which is usually flat brimmed and a bit taller.

I will concede that Truman wore a Panama, it just didn't look like this one.

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Level 71
Oct 8, 2018
Porkpie hat was my first thought too.
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Level 74
Nov 19, 2018
Agreed, the photo looks like a porkpie hat. Perhaps Truman's is not ageing well. Googling panama hat shows hats that are nothing like the photo clue provided...
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Level 68
Oct 8, 2018
Very fun challenging quiz. Just missed three, man I had to think hard. Should have got them all though.
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Level 61
Oct 20, 2018
Well I only got about half f those right- think my brain needs to rest, or they were harder than they looked...
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Level 57
Jan 14, 2021
Spent half the time trying to guess Parthians for Persia and phalanx and pilum for the pike one. Oh well