Some questions are more geography than history so we can call them histography or geostory questions. If they are not words in the dictionary... I am claiming fatherhood right here and now and I want full royalties.
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1.Napoleon's greatest victory on 2 December, 1805.
Auerstedt
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Auschwitz
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Austerlitz
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Adelsheim
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2.He deceived the Romans in 9 AD and annihilated three of their legions.
Augustus
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Arnim
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Arminius
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Asturias
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Arminius! After all the Romans did for him! Gave him full Roman citizenship. Taught him everything there was to know about modern warfare at the time. What did the ingrate do? He bit the hand that fed him.
3.Denmark's second largest city.
Aarlborg
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Aarhus
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Anaheim
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Achim
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4.Autonomous community in Spain. Capital is Seville.
Almeria
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Andalusia
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Alicante
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Algeciras
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5.According to William Shakespeare, this Roman general asked his fellow citizens if he could borrow their listening flaps.
Marcus Antonius
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Antoninus Pius
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Marcus Aurelius
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Flavius Aetius
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6.This battle was an Allied fiasco, planned by Field Marshal Montgomery because he wanted to beat 'Blood and Guts' to Berlin. September 17-26, 1944.
Arnhem Land
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Arnhem
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Abensberg
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Aachen
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Montgomery was a dilettante who did not make his move at El Alamein in late 1942 until his forces were vastly superior in tanks and men to a battle-weary Rommel's. Patton was a blowhard from a wealthy family playing soldier. The animosity and rivalry between these two clowns cost British and American soldiers' lives unnecessarily.
7.Youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. There were rumours for years that she survived the massacre of her family in 1918 and lived a reclusive life in Hollywood to the age of 99.
Anne Boleyn
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Anna Karenina
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Anastasia Nikolaevna
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Anna Karen
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8.He invented electricity.
Alessandro Volta
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Alfred Nobel
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Alfred the Great
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Alessandro Volta did not invent electricity but he was a live wire in the field. Benjamin Franklin invented electricity. Alfred Nobel? That blighter was a dynamiter. Alexander Graham Bell? He just wanted to 'phone home. Alfred the Great? Who's he?
9.A minor character in Greek mythology (he received a footnote in Homer's 'Iliad'). A major figure in Roman mythology (he is the central character of Virgil's 'Aeneid' which became a bestseller).
Ascanius
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Anchises
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Aeneas
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Alexander the Great
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Anchises was Aeneas' father. Ascanius was Aeneas' son. At the end of the day, they were all anuses.
10.This battle saw the end of Marcus Antonius and his main squeeze.
Aegospotami
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Actium
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Antietam
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Asculum
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Marcus Antonius' main squeeze dabbled in herpetology. In the end though, she found the study to be a real pain in the asp.
11.This British officer interfered in the squabbles between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hejaz. He wrote a self-glorifying book and became know as...
A.D.H.D. Lawrence
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Lawrence of Andinavia
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Lawrence of Avaria
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T.E. Lawrence got all dressed up in his finest, white robes and mounted a white Arabian, to lead his followers into Damascus to liberate it from the Ottomans. He was quite miffed when he found the place had already been freed by Australian troops. They say that old Larry was quite partial to mounting Arabians.
Good stuff, and fun that you add a bit of humour to it - the bit about the two generals being clowns, haw haw; I'll have to take your word for it there. I think the word "as" can be removed from question 6. Got 'em all, although Arminius was a bit of a guess.
Removed "as" from question 6. Thanks for your comments, XYU. I have been chipping away at your quizzes, slowly. They are certainly not for the Harry Potter or Pokemon set. They require a bit of the old grey matter to be stirred from its slumber. Regards.