History Bits and Pieces

What was this major event of WW2 that involved the mass evacuation of French soldiers off of their own coast?

What English Monarch was known as the "Virgin Queen" and who's predecessors were Mary I and Philip?

What river is known as the true start of 'modern' humanity?

Who was the great conqueror who captured all land from Greece to that River in the 4th Century BCE?

What infamous philosopher tutored that great ruler and general and also wrote Nicomachean Ethics?

What major catastrophic event in the 12th Century BCE led to the destruction of almost every major power at the time, supposedly by "the Sea Peoples"?

What great artist and former ninja turtle is the sculptor of David

What PROTESTANT REFORMER wrote against the Catholic Church in his famous 95 Theses?

What later Civil Rights activist was named after that reformer who, for a time, rivaled Malcolm X in his ideas?

What is the Northern name of the subjectively most impressive side of Mount Everest that is also the name of a popular clothing brand?

What WW2 veteran wrote such novels as The Catcher in the Rye and also married a 19 year old when he was 53?

What rock slinging device is depicted in many different media attempts to recreate scenes from the Middle Ages?

What ancient library was said to have had more writings than any other library by today's standards, but was burned down by Julius Caesar?

What is the Greek name of the part of a theater that would hoist a God down onto the stage as to help any wrongs that'd happened in the story?

What is the name of the Roman emperor that held the title at the largest point that the Empire ever reached?