European History A-Z #2

Guess these facts about European history - one for each letter of the alphabet.

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Letter	Hint	Answer
A	Supposedly said "Let them eat cake"	Marie Antoinette
B	King Henry VIII's second wife	Anne Boleyn
C	Writing system developed in Bulgaria in the 9th-10th century AD for Slavic-speaking people	Cyrillic Script
D	The Ultimate Renaissance Man, painter of the Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci
E	German-born theoretical physicist well-known for his theory of relativity	Albert Einstein
F	Victor in the Spanish Civil War who became the country's dictator until 1975	Francisco Franco
G	Name given to modern-day France by the Romans during Julius Caesar's conquests	Gaul
H	Carthaginian general who led his African battle elephants across the Alps	Hannibal
I	First Tsar of all of Russia who presumably caused much terror	Ivan the Terrible
J	Minority ethnic group targeted by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust	Jews
K	Former capital of Prussia, now the Russian city of Kaliningrad	Königsberg
L	Russian revolutionary who seized power as leader of the Bolsheviks	Vladimir Lenin
M	Document signed by King John of England in 1215 which established the principle that the king was not above the law	Magna Carta
N	Heroic admiral of the Royal Navy who was killed during his victory in the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson
O	English city whose famous university founded in 1096	Oxford
P	Ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the gods	Pantheon
Q	Niels Bohr and Max Planck both received a Nobel Prize for their work in this foundational theory of modern physics	Quantum Theory
R	Confederation of German client states established in 1806 at the command of Napoleon	Confederation of the Rhine
S	Greek philosopher who is often credited as the founder of Western philosophy	Socrates
T	Fateful ship that departed from Southampton in 1912 on its way to New York	Titanic
U	Codename of one of the D-Day beaches stormed by allied forces on June 6, 1944	Utah
V	Germanic people who had kingdoms in Iberia and North Africa, and sacked Rome in 455 AD	Vandals
W	Knight who was one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence	William Wallace
X	Roman numerals for 44	XLIV
Y	Country in the Balkans that dissolved in 1992	Yugoslavia
Z	King of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus	Zeus

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