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Statistics for History by Letter 'C' (Multiple Choice)
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This quiz has been taken 13 times
(1 since last reset) - The average score is 9 of 12
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| This French, man of the cloth, was another maggot who stuck his nose in politics for his own enrichment. Known as 'the red eminence'. Credited with inventing the table knife. | Cardinal Richelieu | 100%
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| Prussian general and military theorist. "War is the continuation of policy with other means." | Carl von Clausewitz | 100%
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| Napoleon Bonaparte had three sisters. One named Pauline. One named Elisa. The last of the trio? | Caroline | 100%
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| Which English general saw defeat at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781 but like Douglas McArthur let others go through the humiliation of the surrender? | Charles Cornwallis | 100%
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| Got his bottom smacked in the English Civil War and to add insult to injury had his head shaved off at the insistence of a man who did not believe that life was something to be enjoyed. | Charles I | 100%
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| Wee lass from Normandy who stabbed a Jacobin in his bath and had her head trimmed off four days later for her trouble. In 1793. | Charlotte Corday | 100%
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| Which of these canals was completed first? | Erie Canal | 100%
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| This comedian/actor had a funny way of being mobile without the assistance of a horse/mule/donkey etc or a man-made conveyance. He had a penchant for slapping around waiters from Catalonia. | John Cheese | 100%
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| Italian painter. Baroque movement. Murderer. Sentenced to death. Talked his way out of execution by insinuating himself into the Vatican. Realistic paintings that capture horror and sexual depravity quite nicely. Died of lead poisoning or murder. Recent studies point to the latter being the case. Probably insane. Works include 'Medusa' and 'Judith Beheading Holofernes'. The names say it all, fight fans. | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | 100%
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| "They train young men to drop fire on people... but they won't allow them to write 'f**k' on their aircraft... because it's obscene." | Colonel Curtz | 0%
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| US cavalry colonel. Breveted a general during the fisticuffs between the grits smokers and the Maine lobster munchers of 1861-1865. He chose wisely. He was appointed by the US government to bully a boy named Sioux and his horse, Crazy. A US documentary series 'Battlefield Detectives' unearthed evidence in the 1990s that this gentleman's last donnybrook was not a shoulder-to-shoulder "Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes" affair. It was more in the region of "Let's get the flock outta here! They're right on my ass... and they ain't stoppin' fer shit!" | Colonel George Armstrong Custard | 0%
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| This Tennessee-class battleship was born November 20, 1919. It was sunk at Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Refloated. It was hit by a kamikaze. Collided with the USS Tennessee. Fired a few rounds at the Battle of Okinawa and was involved in the Occupation of Japan. Scrapped in 1959. | USS California | 0%
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