Statistics for Spanish History A-Z

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This quiz has been taken 9,958 times
The average score is 16 of 26

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Native American empire conquered by Cortés	Aztecs	97%
C	The parliament of this region declared independence in 2017	Catalonia	88%
I	Her marriage to Ferdinand in 1469 would unite the crowns of Castille and Aragon	Isabella	88%
B	This modern-day country is the first place that Columbus landed in 1492	Bahamas	86%
F	Generalísimo who ruled Spain from 1936 to 1975	Francisco Franco	86%
P	In 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the New World, giving half of it to Spain and the other half to this country	Portugal	86%
O	It has been estimated that between 100,000 - 250,000 Spaniards were kidnapped by North African pirates and sold as slaves in this empire	Ottoman Empire	81%
J	This group of people were expelled from Spain in 1492	Jews	79%
Q	This don was invented by Miguel de Cervantes	Quixote	78%
M	Term for the Muslim inhabitants of Spain and North Africa during the Middle Ages	Moors	71%
U	Spain's war against this country was known as the Disaster of 1898	United States	65%
N	Conqueror who invaded Spain and installed his brother as king	Napoleon	64%
G	Type of large ship used by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries	Galleon	61%
K	In Spanish, they are called caballeros. In English, they are called ...	Knights	54%
S	This city on the island of Hispaniola was founded in 1496. It is the oldest continuously-inhabited European settlement in the Americas	Santo Domingo	54%
L	Spanish kingdom that joined with Castille in 1230	León	52%
T	This city near Madrid was home to the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor	Toledo	51%
H	Roman name for the Iberian peninsula	Hispania	47%
E	Basque separatist group that killed hundreds of people in the second half of the 20th century	ETA	46%
R	Term for the period 722-1492 when Christian forces gradually took back the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims	Reconquista	45%
W	Name for the Spanish colonies in and around the Caribbean	Spanish {West} {Indies}	45%
Z	City originally founded around 20 BC with the name Caesaraugusta	Zaragoza	45%
V	Court painter of the 1600s whose masterpiece is "Las Meninas"	Diego Velázquez	30%
Y	This plant, used to make a caffeinated drink, was grown on Jesuit plantations in Paraguay	{Yerba} Mate	27%
X	Former spelling of the city famous for Sherry wine	Xerez	23%
D	Spanish coin also known as the piece of eight	Dollar	14%