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Who was a Georgian revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953?
Josef Stalin
Who was a prime minister of Great Britain and was born on November 30, 1874?
Winston Churchill
What country is part of Scandinavia and had a series of civil wars from 1130 to 1240?
Norway
What country was invaded by Nazi Germany and once had King Louis XVI as king?
France
Who was a wife of Alexander the Great and was assassinated in 323 BC?
Stateira II
What country was part of the Allied Powers in WW II and the location of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
United States
What country was part of the Allied Powers in WW II and was made up of 15 republics?
Soviet Union
Who was a wife of Edward I of England and was a daughter of Philip III of France?
Margaret of France
Who was a wife of Napoleon and was a child of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor?
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
Who was a famous child actress and a United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana?
Shirley Temple
Who was the legitimate daughter of King Henry VIII and a half-sibling of Mary I?
Elizabeth I
Who was a famous American author and an oyster pirate in his youth?
Jack London
Which Japanese island was the site of a bloody battle during World War II and is now the host of a US military base?
Okinawa
Who was a Princess of Thailand and a romantic partner of an American citizen?
Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi
What city was the Declaration of Independence signed and has held two Continental Congresses?
Philadelphia
Who was a German Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage and one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
Annelies Marie Frank
Who was the founder of the first French Empire and was born in Corsica?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who was the vice president of Abraham Lincoln and also the first US president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Who was the queen of France and also born an archduchess of Austria?
Marie Antoinette
Who became a chancellor of Germany and was a painter from the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Adolf Hitler
Who was a Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty and was also preceded in reign by Thutmose IV?
Amenhotep III
Which country was in the second World War and also dropped two atomic bombs on Japan?
United States
What battle of the Civil War turned the tide for the Union and had the most casualties?
Battle of Gettysburg
What famous playwright was born on April 23rd and died on April 23rd?
William Shakespeare
Who was married to Alexander the Great and also captured and executed in 316?
Roxana
Who was the oldest child in the family and also the first president of the United States?
George Washington
Who was an Attorney General of the United States and also assassinated?
Robert F. Kennedy
Who was an American president and a general at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War?
George Washington
Who was born on the island of Corsica and became a leader of France?
Napoleon
What country was a part of the Axis Alliance during World War II and was formerly united with Austria?
Germany
Which country was a part of the Allies Alliance in World War II and fought against the United States in the Cold War?
Soviet Union
Which country gained independence from Spain and also fought a major war against the United States in the 1800s?
Mexico
What general lost the Battle of Princeton and the siege of Yorktown during the American Revolution?
General Charles Cornwallis
What famous general was exiled to the island of Elba and later St Helena?
Napoleon Bonaparte
What famous general won many victories for the Nazis and is suspected of attempting to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944?
Erwin Rommel
What occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?
Atomic Denotations
Who was blind and deaf and also a student of Anne Sullivan?
Helen Keller
Who was the leader of the Nazi Party and married to Eva Braun?
Adolf Hitler
Who was a member of the British Royal Family and also was later married to Prince Charles?
Princess Diana
Who is known for discovering the New World of the Americas and also sailed the ship the Santa Maria?
Christopher Columbus
Who was the daughter of Roman Senator Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus and married to Tiberius Claudius Nero?
Livia
Who was the first husband of Livia and the biological father of the second Roman Emperor Tiberius?
Nero
Who was the son of Livia Drusilla and the legal stepson of the Emperor Augustus?
Nero Claudius Drusus
Who was a Founding Father and a US president that did not own slaves?
John Adams
Who flew the VF-51 in the Korean war and walked on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who was a stage actor and also assassinated a US president?
John Wilkes Booth
Who was married to the king of England and was an American divorcee?
Wallis Simpson
Who was elected president and the only one to be elected unanimously?
George Washington
Who is the current vice president and the only female to hold the office?
Kamala Harris
Who is credited with discovering America and never set foot on the North American continent?
Christopher Columbus
Which war resulted in a renegotiation of Spanish boundaries in America, and was also responsible for the burning of the White House?
The War of 1812
Which queen of Spain was married to Ferdinand V and was later succeeded by Joanna?
Isabella I
Which war is the shortest recorded in history, and was conducted on an island in an archipelago?
The Anglo-Zanzibar War
Who served as both a president and later as a Chief Justice of the United States?
William Howard Taft
Which country occupied both Taiwan and Korea in the 20th century?
Japan
Which U.S. president was assassinated, and was also a Democrat?
John F. Kennedy
Which country was an Axis Power, invaded Africa, and also joined the Allies in WW II?
Italy
Which World War II general was also a United States president?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What country was an Axis Power in WW II and also a country in Asia?
Japan
What Empire existed before Jesus Christ and was also located around the entirety of the Mediterranean Sea?
Roman Empire
What country was part of the Allied Powers and the location of D-Day?
France
What country was part of the Allied Powers and the location of the Battle of Stalingrad?
Soviet Union
What country was part of the Axis Powers and the location of the Battle of Okinawa?
Japan
Who was the child of Queen Victoria and was married to Alexandra of Denmark?
Edward VII
Which castle was built by William the Conqueror and located in Windsor, England?
Windsor Castle
Who was a Tsar of Russia and was the father of Anastasia Romanov?
Nicholas II
Who was a US president and involved in the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Who was the wife of King Philip and cousin of Don Carlos?
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain
Who was a wife of King Henry V and the daughter of Charles VI?
Catherine of Valois
Who was a wife of Charles VI and the daughter of Stephen III?
Isabeau of Bavaria
Who was a wife of Stephen III and the daughter of Bernabò Visconti?
Taddea Visconti
Who discovered Taeniopygia and Stagonopleura?
Ludwig Reichenbach
What bird in North America has coined the name "rice" finch and was put under the control of the Lacey Act in the 1900s by the US Department of Interior?
Java Finch
What queen of England has owned both a dog and a budgie?
Queen Elizabeth II
What United States president served as both president and vice president without being elected?
Gerald Ford
What United States president served during both The Great Depression and World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
Who served as both a United States president and Assistant Secretary of the Navy?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What United States president was the tallest and the first to have a full beard?
Abraham Lincoln
What country was part of the Axis Powers in World War II but not in the European theater?
Japan
Who was a premier of Russia, and was in office for less than 200 days?
Ivan Silayev
Who was king of the Franks and died in 814?
Charlemagne
Who was president of Italy during World War II and a close friend of Adolf Hitler?
Benito Mussolini
Who was prime minister of Great Britain during the Falklands War and also a close personal friend of American President Ronald Reagan?
Margaret Thatcher
Who was a German army officer and a personal attaché of German Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess?
Karlheinz Pintsch
Who was the British prime minister during the Berlin Airlift who was also a close personal friend of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Winston Churchill
Which Pope was the first to be born in the 20th century and only served for 33 days?
Pope John Paul I.
Who was the first US president to win a record four presidential elections and died in office?
Franklin Roosevelt.
What country from Asia was a member of the Axis Alliance and is considered the oldest country in the world?
Japan
Who was the Greek king of Macedon that conquered most parts of Asia and North Africa and had a sister called Cleopatra of Macedon?
Alexander III of Macedon.
Who was the German dictator that started World War II and was married to Eva Braun shortly before their death?
Adolf Hitler.
Who was president during the Great Depression and signed the new deal?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is the name of the first woman millionaire and was born in the United States?
Madam C.J. Walker
What is the civil rights leader that was assassinated in 1968 and was born in Atlanta, Georgia?
Martin Luther King, Jr
Who was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first emperor of Rome?
Augustus
Who was president of the United States and a member of the Confederate House of Representatives?
John Tyler
Who was president of the United States and president of the Screen Actors Guild?
Ronald Reagan
Who was prime minister of United Kingdom and defeated Napoleon at Waterloo?
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
What country was part of the Allied Powers and the location of the Eiffel Tower?
France
What Mediterranean country was initially an Axis Power during World War II and then joined the Allies late in the war?
Italy
What man was US president and also Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft