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History by Picture - I

Can you name these historic people, places, and things beginning with "I".
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: June 13, 2018
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First submittedApril 27, 2018
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civilization
Spanish queen
colonial area
French Indochina
figurative dividing line
prehistorical age
Mayan city
Chichen Itza
former capital city
poem
most valuable corporation in 1960
only female P.M. of India
goddess
period of history
Indira Gandhi
Industrial Revolution
economic phenomenon
mythical character
formerly a rare and valuable dye
island
material that is now illegal
Byzantine religious art object
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Level 71
Apr 28, 2018
Ice Age gets filled in when you try to write Iceland
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Level 83
Apr 28, 2018
That's why Iceland comes after Ice Age in the quiz.
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Level ∞
Apr 28, 2018
I replaced Iceland with something else so this won't happen.
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Level 79
Apr 28, 2018
Please change the photo which you use to illustrate 'IRA'. This is a para-military mural, but the flags are of Ulster and the United Kingdom, so the mural must be supporting a Protestant 'loyalist' group, e.g. UDA or UVF. If you find a similar mural accompanied by an Irish tricolour, it's an IRA mural.
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Level 82
Apr 28, 2018
Seconded, notice the cross of St George and union flag flying at the top.
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Level ∞
Apr 28, 2018
Good eye. I replaced that clue.
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Level 72
Apr 28, 2018
I haven't seen the old clue, but I do like the new one. It's cool to see something different than a leprechaun or a shamrock.
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2018
Brilliant clue, that one.
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Level 72
Apr 29, 2018
Seconded MayaB
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Level 92
May 1, 2018
Yeah, that was one of my favorite clues, had to stop and really look at the graph to figure out what was going on.
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Level 64
Apr 30, 2018
maybe accept Isabel for Isabella?
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Level ∞
Apr 30, 2018
Done
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Level 84
Apr 30, 2018
Doh, did about 80% of these before remembering that it was an "I" quiz. Made the remainder a bit easier!
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Level 65
May 1, 2018
Had no idea until I completed the quiz (with poor results) that all begin with the letter "I". I thought that was the Roman Numeral "I", indicating "one" in a series.
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Level 68
Jul 20, 2018
Classic!
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Level 77
May 2, 2018
Love the island clue. Very creative.
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Level 58
Sep 11, 2018
Agreed: very creative and very clever indeed
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Level 44
Jun 13, 2018
Can you accept Ikaros for Icarus, as that is the Greek spelling.
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Level 66
Jun 13, 2018
Ikaros will work now
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Level 86
Jul 20, 2018
"island" and "economic phenomenon" were both great clues. Real thinkers.

Curious: is there something specifically Byzantine about an "icon"? I thought it was a more general term.

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Level 66
Jul 20, 2018
Byzantine Icons essentially cause the Great Schism, which split Christianity into the Catholic Church and the Byzantine Church (soon to be the Eastern Orthodox Church)
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Level 73
Aug 24, 2020
No they did not lol. Icons are still used by the West to this day, just not as much as the East. The split happened cause of the Pope's authority, the filioque and a bit of the bozo factor. And to answer the original question, the style of the icon pictured is in Byzantine style, but icons as a whole are not Byzantine or Eastern.
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Level 72
Oct 16, 2023
Byzantium itself had significantly pro- or anti-icon reigns.
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Level 75
Jul 20, 2018
Great quiz, WolfCam. Really made me think, but you got me with the economic phenom.
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Level 72
Jul 20, 2018
Any reason why Constantinople doesn't work? It is, after all, a former capital city and Hagia Sophia was built in 537, more than 900 years before the fall of the city. I also tried Byzantium but after googling it, the city already had its new name before the construction began. (The sole purpose of this whole comment is to make me feel less bad about forgetting yet again that Ankara is now the capital of Turkey, not Istanbul.)
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Level 66
Jul 20, 2018
There is one reason, Constantinople does not begin with "I".
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Level 72
Jul 20, 2018
Oops. To think I always laugh at people who make that mistake on other quizzes... At least I spent at bit of time on Wikipedia and learned a few things! :)
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Level 55
Jul 20, 2018
Icon isn't just Byzantine. I'm orthodox christian from Serbia and icons are still used it should be Orthodox art instead of Byzantine
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Level 66
Jul 20, 2018
Icons were originally used in the Byzantine Church and caused the Great Schism (among other things). The Byzantine church evolved into the Orthodox church over time.
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Level 63
Jul 31, 2018
The clue for the material now being illegal is not 100% accurate. The commercial trade is usually illegal but not the material itself.
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Level 79
Oct 4, 2018
Being pedantic (cos what else is Jetpunk for?) the wooden horse isn't in the Iliad, which 'just' covers the story of the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector. The horse does get a passing mention in the Odyssey.
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Level 82
Sep 27, 2022
There is more about it in the Aeneid by Virgil.
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Level 37
Feb 14, 2019
The Ice Age doesn't look very icy in the photo shown.
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Level 65
Feb 5, 2020
I just did the C quiz before this one. Fun how Chichen Itza and Constantinoble/Istanbul are in both quizes.
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Level 76
Oct 4, 2022
The second half of Chichen seems a bit out of place, considering it's the second word.

Some possibilities:

Isaac (Newton)

Iranian revolution

Indus River valley

Islam

IRA

Innocent (Pope)

Ivan the Terrible

Iroquois

Inquisition

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Level 67
Apr 17, 2023
pedant alert. Ivory isn't illegal. Trading it is. Even then, not universally.
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Level 65
Dec 17, 2023
my apologies for nitpicking here, but the trojan horse isnt mentioned in the iliad and only in the many flashback stories in the odyssey. the iliad ends with hektors funeral for which a two week (i think, dont quote me on that number) cease'fire' was negotiated, but after that the fighting did presume, which then according to the odyssey was ended with the wooden horse