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History by Letter 'E' (Multiple Choice)

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1. Russian film-maker. Directed the 1925 film 'Battleship Potemkin', 'Alexander Nevsky' (1938) and 'Ivan the Terrible' (1944 and 1958).
Albert Einstein
Ebenezer Scrooge
Friedrich Engels
Sergei Eisenstein
2. A bad boy of the Holocaust. Kidnapped from his hideaway in Argentina by the Mossad and hanged for being a naughty boy, in1962.
Eckhart Tolle
Adolf Eichmann
Roger Ebert
Erich Endlosung
3. US aviatrix who flew too close to the sun over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Eileen Collins
Amelia Earhart
Emily Howell Warner
Edith Piaf
4. US general. Commanded the US Eighth Army in the Southwest Pacific Area in WWII.
Theodor Eicke
Julian Edelman
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eva Peron
More medals and awards than George Smith Patton, this fellow.
5. How does the German word 'Edelweiss' translate into English?
A combination of 'noble' and 'white'
... of 'evil' and 'wise'
... of 'ethereal' and 'nice'
... of 'sugar' and 'spice'
6. This western Europe city is a hub of technology and design. It is the hometown of the Philips electronics company.
Essen
Eisenach
Eindhoven
Emden
7. A New Zealand mountaineer climbed this in 1953 because it was there.
Mount Elbrus
The Eiger
Mount Everest
Eiffel Tower
8. "Okay, we'll go."
R. Lee Ermey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anthony Eden
9. French clergyman.The chief political theorist of the French Revolution. His pamphlet 'What is the Third Estate?' became the political manifesto of the Revolution. He was amongst the instigators of the coup that gave the world Napoleon Bonaparte.
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Sanders
Emmanuel Rhoides
10. Inconclusive battle of the First English Civil War in 1642. Neither side really knew what they were doing. The Prince of Wales and Duke of York ended up hiding under a tree together as the fight sputtered and coughed and went nowhere. This farce saw the end of any chance of a compromise between the royalists and parliamentarians and the 'Hater of Fun' reared his ugly head soon after.
Battle of Evesham
Battle of Essling-Aspern
Battle of Edgehill (Edge Hill)
Battle of Eylau
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