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Quiz about Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies and Gentlemen Trivia Quiz


Over the years, countless men and women have accomplished feats great and small. Here, only five of each gender are presented and you have to match them to their accomplishment. Enjoy!

A matching quiz by DeepHistory. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
DeepHistory
Time
3 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
382,510
Updated
Jun 28 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
1840
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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1. English Queen, daughter of Henry VIII and last of her dynasty.  
  Elizabeth I
2. Russian author, penned "Crime and Punishment".  
  Otto von Bismarck
3. British nurse, made the profession of nursing respectable in Britain.  
  Joan of Arc
4. Roman emperor, issued the Edict of Milan  
  Amelia Earhart
5. American aviatrix, disappeared while flying over the Pacific in 1937.  
  Charlemagne
6. English scientist, discovered the law of universal gravitation  
  Isaac Newton
7. Leader of the Iceni tribe, initiated a rebellion against the Romans.  
  Constantine the Great
8. Prussian chancellor, led Prussia to victory in the Austro-Prussian and the Franco-Prussian War.  
  Boudicca
9. French war leader, lifted the Siege of Orleans in 1429.  
  Florence Nightingale
10. Leader of the Franks, crowned Emperor in Rome by the Pope in Christmas Day, 800 AD  
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky





Select each answer

1. English Queen, daughter of Henry VIII and last of her dynasty.
2. Russian author, penned "Crime and Punishment".
3. British nurse, made the profession of nursing respectable in Britain.
4. Roman emperor, issued the Edict of Milan
5. American aviatrix, disappeared while flying over the Pacific in 1937.
6. English scientist, discovered the law of universal gravitation
7. Leader of the Iceni tribe, initiated a rebellion against the Romans.
8. Prussian chancellor, led Prussia to victory in the Austro-Prussian and the Franco-Prussian War.
9. French war leader, lifted the Siege of Orleans in 1429.
10. Leader of the Franks, crowned Emperor in Rome by the Pope in Christmas Day, 800 AD

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. English Queen, daughter of Henry VIII and last of her dynasty.

Answer: Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was born in 1533. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Due to the fact that Boleyn bore Henry a girl, Elizabeth, instead of the son and heir he hoped, a rift opened in their marriage and Henry started developing affections for Jane Seymour, while Anne Boleyn was arrested and executed on charges of adultery and incest. Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1558, after the death of her father, her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary, aka Bloody Mary for her ruthless persecution of Protestants. During Elizabeth's reign, England's status as a great power rose. Because Elizabeth never married and had no offspring, the Tudor dynasty ended after her death, in 1603 and the crown passed to James VI of Scotland, who also became James I of England and thus started the era of the House of Stuart.
2. Russian author, penned "Crime and Punishment".

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in 1821. He wrote his first novel in the 1840s and its title was "Poor Folk". Other well-known works of him are "The Idiot", "Notes from Underground", "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Gambler". Because Dostoyevsky was member of the Petrashevsky Circle, a community founded by Mikhail Petrashevsky, who was a follower of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier, he was blacklisted and sent to Siberia, despite the fact that neither Dostoyevsky nor the Circle conspired against the monarchy.

It is said that Dostoyevsky was given a pardon just before his planned execution. He died in 1881.
3. British nurse, made the profession of nursing respectable in Britain.

Answer: Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. She served as a nurse during the Crimean War. She earned the moniker "The Lady With the Lamp" because, at night, she made rounds of the wounded soldiers carrying a lamp. Despite the fact that some of her accomplishments may have been exaggerated by the press, she laid the foundations of modern nursing.

She also wrote a large number of texts relating to religion and mysticism and was a talented statistician. She died in 1910.
4. Roman emperor, issued the Edict of Milan

Answer: Constantine the Great

Constantine was born in 272 AD. He was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, one of the tetrarchs installed by Diocletian. After his father's death in 306, Constantine was proclaimed Emperor in today's York (then named Eboracum) and started a war against the other claimant emperors.

In the Battle of Milvian Bridge, in 312, he triumphed against Maxentius. In the next year, he issued the Edict of Milan with another claimant emperor, Licinius, a document that ended the persecution of Christians. Constantine later warred against Licinius and beat him at the Battle of Chrysopolis, in 324. Constantine removed the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which was rebuilt as the grand city of Constantinople.

He died in 337. Shortly before his death, he had been baptized as a Christian.
5. American aviatrix, disappeared while flying over the Pacific in 1937.

Answer: Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was born in 1897. Her most famous accomplishment was being the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean. She also wrote a number of books concerning her aviation experiences, which became best-sellers. Her husband, George P. Putnam, was a publisher.

The mysterious circumstances of her 1937 disappearance have given rise to many conspiracy theories, such as a theory that Earhart was spying on the Japanese for Franklin Roosevelt's administration, but no one can know for sure.
6. English scientist, discovered the law of universal gravitation

Answer: Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the very same year as Galileo Galilei's death. Aside from the law of universal gravitation, he is given credit for discovering calculus, a credit he shares with Gottfried Leibniz. In his book "Philosophiae Naturalis Prinicipia Mathematica", Newton also formulated his three laws of motion. He also constructed the first reflecting telescope. He died in 1727.
7. Leader of the Iceni tribe, initiated a rebellion against the Romans.

Answer: Boudicca

Boudicca's exact year of birth is unknown. Both Tacitus and Cassius Dio agree that she hailed from a royal family. Her uprising happened in AD 60 or 61. Leading a force of 100,000 Iceni, Trinovantes and other tribes she destroyed Camulodunum (today it is called Colchester), a Londinium (today called London) and Verulanium (today called St. Albans), killing over 70,000 Romans in the process.

The victory was short-lived, however. The Romans achieved a decisive victory against the rebelling Britons in the Battle of Watling Street, where Tacitus says that 80,000 rebels died, while the Romans suffered only 400 casualties. Boudicca either committed suicide to avoid capture or died soon after her defeat from a disease.
8. Prussian chancellor, led Prussia to victory in the Austro-Prussian and the Franco-Prussian War.

Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck was born in 1815, at the same year Napoleon was defeated in Waterloo. His ambition was to unite all of Germany under the banner of Prussia. In the 1860s and 1870s he started three wars: one against Denmark (the Second Schleswig War, fought in late 1864), one against Austria (the Austro-Prussian War, fought in 1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (fought in 1870-71). All three wars ended with tremendous victories for Prussia.

After the Prussian victory against France, Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.

He died in 1898.
9. French war leader, lifted the Siege of Orleans in 1429.

Answer: Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was born in 1412. Despite her youth (she was only 17 years old when she lifted the Siege of Orleans), she did not show fear on the battlefield. She believed she had a divine mission to expel the English from France. Her victory at Orleans earned her the nickname "The Maid of Orleans" and encouraged the French to continue the fight.

In 1430, she was captured and handed over to the English, who tried her and found her guilty of heresy, but the trial was a staged one. In 1431, she was burned at the stake in Rouen.

Her martyr's death roused the French and 22 years after her death the Hundred Years' War was over, with France having won. In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
10. Leader of the Franks, crowned Emperor in Rome by the Pope in Christmas Day, 800 AD

Answer: Charlemagne

Charlemagne was born some time during the 740s. He was the son of Pepin the Short, who in turn was the son of Charles Martel, the Frankish leader who had defeated the Moors in the Battle of Tours, in 732 AD. Charlemagne's reign began in 768. His empire included large parts of today's France, the Low Countries and Germany.

He also conquered parts of northern Italy and saved the papacy from the threat of the Lombards. As a reward, the Pope crowned Charlemagne as Emperor in Rome, on Christmas Day, 800 AD.

After Charlemagne's death, his son, Louis the Pious, succeeded him. Louis' three sons, Charles the Bald, Lothair and Louis the German split the kingdom into three parts with the Treaty of Verdun, in 843.
Source: Author DeepHistory

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