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1.
  The Last Emperors   top quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Throughout the centuries, empires have risen and fallen. This quiz deals with some historical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries who were the last to bear the title of emperor for their respective empires.
Average, 10 Qns, LadyNym, Mar 30 19
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Mar 30 19
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  I Rule the Land: 1500 Edition    
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 10 Qns
Match the ruler with area he or she controlled in 1500.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Mar 18 19
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bernie73 gold member
Mar 18 19
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  King Twice Over editor best quiz   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These people were all king of more than one country during the course of their careers.
Difficult, 10 Qns, alan03, Jul 29 20
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Jul 29 20
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  I Rule the Land: 1200 Edition    
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 10 Qns
Match the leader with the area he ruled in 1200.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jun 06 19
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bernie73 gold member
Jun 06 19
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  I Rule the Land: 1000 Edition    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the ruler with the land he ruled. Note that this quiz reflects the situation at the start of 1000.
Easier, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 01 20
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Jan 01 20
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  I Rule the Land: 1900 Edition    
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Match the monarch with the country he or she ruled in 1900. In most cases, English spelling of names is used.
Easier, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 15 19
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Jan 15 19
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  I Rule the Land: 600 Edition    
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 10 Qns
Match the ruler with the area he ruled in the year 600
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 09 20
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Jan 09 20
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8.
  I Rule the Land: 800 Edition    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the leader with the area he or she ruled.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 06 20
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Jan 06 20
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  I Rule the Land: 1300 Edition    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the monarch with the country ruled by him in the year 1300.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, May 18 19
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May 18 19
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  I Rule the Land: 1100 Edition    
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 10 Qns
Match the king with the area he ruled in 1100.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jun 09 19
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Jun 09 19
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11.
  I Rule the Land: 1400 Edition    
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 10 Qns
Match the monarch with the realm ruled by him or her in the year 1400.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Apr 19 19
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bernie73 gold member
Apr 19 19
406 plays
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  I Rule the Land: 1600 Edition    
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Match the ruler with the area he or she ruled in 1600.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Feb 27 19
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Feb 27 19
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13.
  When Did They Reign?    
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Here are some of the most famous rulers in history. Match each of them with the years of their reign
Average, 10 Qns, EnglishJedi, Apr 12 16
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  I Rule the Land: 2000 Edition    
Match Quiz
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Match the ruler with the area led by that person in the year 2000.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jul 01 24
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Jul 01 24
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  I Rule the Land: 1700 Edition    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the ruler with the area he or she ruled in 1700.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Feb 15 19
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bernie73 gold member
Feb 15 19
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  I Rule the Land: 1800 Edition    
Match Quiz
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Match to monarch with the country over which he or she ruled in 1800.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 25 19
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Jan 25 19
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  I Rule the Land: 900 Edition    
Match Quiz
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Match the leader with the area he ruled.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Jan 02 20
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bernie73 gold member
Jan 02 20
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  I Rule the Land: 700 Edition    
Match Quiz
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Match the ruler with the area controlled in the year 700.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Apr 07 20
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Apr 07 20
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19.
  End of the Royal Line    
Multiple Choice
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Some monarchies last a long time and some last a brief time. Many, however, have come to an end. This is the subject of the quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, bernie73, Oct 01 16
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  No Longer Kingdoms    
Multiple Choice
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I will give you some information about a king, a shah, a tsar or an emperor of a country which no longer is a monarchy. I want the name of the country.
Tough, 20 Qns, author, Jan 19 08
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21.
  They Ruled the Land    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about kings and monarchs who once ruled. I Hope you all like it.
Tough, 10 Qns, raghavn77, Oct 17 06
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When Did They Reign? Trivia Questions
1. This man served as the last emperor of France and was forced to abdicate after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Napoleon III

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) was the nephew of Napoleon I (1804-1814, 1815). He first came to power in 1848 during the Second Republic when he was elected President of France with an impressive 74% of the vote. He was actually the first popularly elected President in the history of France. However, the French Constitution did not allow the President to serve for a second term, so in 1851 he staged a coup d'état and proclaimed himself emperor. After his abdication, he went into exile and died in 1873.

2. Which Roman Emperor is best known for being the first to embrace Christianity and grant it the status of a legalized religion?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: Constantine the Great

The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Constantine as a saint.

3. In this country the monarchy was abolished in 1910. The last king was Manuel II.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Portugal

Manuel II was overthrown in 1910 and Portugal became a republic.

4. He was a toddler when he became the Emperor of China in 1908 and was still a child when he was forced to abdicate. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Puyi

Puyi (1908-1912, 1917) became emperor two months before his third birthday. He was later installed as the leader of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II. The 1987 film "The Last Emperor" was based on Puyi's life.

5. James Stuart, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became James I of England in 1603. By then he had already been king of Scots for 36 years. What was his regnal number as king of Scots?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: James VI

James's grandson, also James, was known as James II & VII. William of Orange was known as William III in England but William II in Scotland.

6. In this European country monarchy was abolished 1973. The last king was Constantine II.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Greece

King Constantine II left the country after the military coup in 1967. The Colonels' regime lasted until 1973, when Greece became a presidential republic.

7. Amha Selassie, son of the more famous Haile Selassie, was the last monarch of an African nation. Which one?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Ethiopia

Amha Selassie was declared Emperor of Ethiopia in 1974 after his father Haile Selassie was deposed. Amha Selassie never accepted this declaration which became a moot point after the Ethiopian monarchy was abolished in 1975. Amha Selassie died in exile in the United States in 1997.

8. He was the monarch of a South Asian kingdom and ruled it from 1972-2001 till he and almost his entire family was killed in suspicious circumstances. Who was it?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: King Birendra

Birendra was the King of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. He was educated at premier institutes in Europe, Asia, and America, including the Eton (in England) and Harvard University. Interestingly, Nepal is the only Hindu Kingdom in the world.

9. Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland was created Empress of India in 1877. Her successors were then known as King-Emperors. Who was the last King-Emperor?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: George VI

George ceased to be emperor of India when it became independent of Britain in 1947. He remained king of India until the country became a republic in 1949.

10. Muhammad VI was the last monarch to rule this country. He ruled from 1918-1922.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Turkey

Muhammad VI was the last of the Ottoman emperors. Nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal, later also called Ataturk, took power 1923. He wanted a westernized, secular state.

11. Known as the "May King" this last king of Italy reigned for little more than a month before a vote abolished the Italian monarchy. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Umberto II

Umberto's father, Victor Emmanuel III, served as King of Italy from 1900 to 1946. In the wake of Italy's defeat in World War II, Victor Emmanuel III abdicated in favor of his son. Umberto II was more popular than his father at the time and it is speculated that if the abdication had occurred earlier, the vote might have gone the other way.

12. King Joseph ruled Spain between 1808 and 1813. He was the elder brother of a more famous monarch who made him the ruler of Spain. Who?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Despite efforts to win popularity, Joseph's foreign birth guaranteed he would never be accepted as legitimate by the bulk of the Spanish people. During his rule of Spain, Venezuela declared independence (1810) from Spain, the first nation to do so.

13. The Xuantong Emperor (also known as Pu Yi) was the last emperor of China (1908-1911) and the only emperor of Manchukuo (1931-45). To which dynasty did he belong?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: Qing

Pu Yi was deposed when China became a republic in 1911 and in 1925 he was expelled from the capital, Beijing. Although his family had lived in Beijing since overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in 1644, they were ethnic Manchus rather than Han Chinese. When the Japanese set up a puppet government in occupied Manchuria they offered the throne to Pu Yi which he readily accepted, ruling as the Emperor Kangde. After the Second World War Pu Yi was captured by the Soviets and handed over to the Chinese Communist forces. He was sent to a rehabilitation camp and later became a supporter of the Communist Party, dying in 1967.

14. This country was proclaimed a kingdom in 1910. The ruler Nikita, or Nicholas, was king 1910-1918, when he was dethroned.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Montenegro

Nicholas I tried to expel the Turks in 1910. In 1914 he declared war against Austria and was soon overrun by Austrian and German troops. In 1918 Nicholas was deposed and Montenegro was united with Serbia.

15. This last emperor of Brazil was very popular at the time of his ouster in 1889 by a group of military officers. In fact, those officers themselves eventually wanted him to return to power. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Dom Pedro II

Dom Pedro II (1831-1889) was still a child when he became Emperor of Brazil. He led the movement towards the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. He lived the last two years of his life in exile in France in relative poverty until his death in 1891.

16. He was the 124th Emperor of Japan and his reign was the longest of any historical Japanese emperor, and oversaw many significant changes to Japanese society. Who was it?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: Hiro Hito

Hirohito was interested in and well-informed about marine biology, and the Imperial Palace contained a laboratory from which Hirohito published several papers in the field. His contributions include the description of several dozen species of jellyfish new to science.

17. Henry III of Navarre was a Protestant king. To the throne of which Catholic country did he succeed in 1589?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: France

Henry became Henry IV of France but as a Protestant king in a staunchly Catholic country at first met a great deal of resistance to his rule. He converted to Catholicism in 1593 but in 1598 allowed French Protestants full freedom.

18. In 1946 King Victor Emanuel III abdicated and left this country. A national referendum brought the end of monarchy in June 1946, and a republic was proclaimed.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Italy

Victor Emanuel played a passive role in Italian politics before World War II. He accepted Mussolini in 1922 and let himself be crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in 1936 and also King of Albania in 1939. He dismissed Mussolini in 1943 but in a plebiscite held in 1946 the Italians voted to abolish the monarchy.

19. He became the last king of Portugal in 1908 when his father and elder brother were assassinated on the same day. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Manuel II

Riding in the same carriage with his father King Carlos I and his elder brother Prince Luis Felipe, Manuel escaped with a wound to his arm. He was personally popular with many of the people of Portugal but not looked on favorably by republican groups in the nation. He moved to Britain where he died in exile in 1932.

20. Who is the King of Franks (A.D. 768-814) who conquered Italy and took the Iron Crown of Lombardy in 774 and, on a visit to Rome in 800, was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: Charlemagne

He is at times considered as the founding father of both France and Germany and sometimes as the 'Father of Europe', as he was - very briefly - the first ruler of a (largely) united Western Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire.

21. Who was the last Holy Roman Emperor and the first emperor of Austria?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: Franz

Franz II was the last Holy Roman Emperor (1792-1806) when the Empire was abolished by Napoleon. He named himself Emperor Franz I of Austria (1804-1835) to maintain his imperial title. The others were all subsequent Austrian Emperors and, in the cases of Franz Josef and Charles, kings of Hungary also.

22. King Zog I was made king of this country 1928.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Albania

Zog was premier 1922-24 and when Albania was proclaimed a republic in 1925 he was elected president. After that he proclaimed himself king in 1928. Albania became financially dependent on Italy and was finally occupied by Mussolini in 1939.

23. This last monarch of Hawaii only reigned for two years but also composed the song "Aloha 'Oe". Who was this ruler?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Liliuokalani

Queen Liliuokalani ruled Hawaii from 1891 to 1893. She was the sister of the previous King, David Kalahaua. The Queen was overthrown by an alliance of European and American businessmen who established a Republic of Hawaii for five years before Hawaii became annexed by the United States. Her song "Aloha 'Oe" is about two lovers bidding each other farewell.

24. Which monarch was the last ruler of Scotland before it merged with England to form the United Kingdom?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: Queen Anne

In 1707 Queen Anne became the first Queen regnant of Great Britain.

25. The last king of this country was the 'child king' Peter II. He was forced to flee the country 1941.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Yugoslavia

In 1918 'the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes' was formed under Serbian king Peter I. In 1921 he was succeeded by Alexander I and the country was eventually renamed Yugoslavia. The uncle of Peter I, called Paul, was the de facto regent after the assassination of Alexander I in 1934.

26. The last Stuart monarch of Scotland did not die or lose power. Scotland itself, however, became united with England in Great Britain. Who was the last monarch of Scotland and first monarch of Great Britain?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Anne

Queen Anne, ruler of Scotland from 1702-1707 and of Great Britain from 1707-1714, was the sister of Mary II, daughter of James VII of Scotland and II of England, and his first wife, Anne Hyde. Anne's personal life was sad as she underwent 17 pregnancies but only one child survived beyond the age of two--William, Duke of Gloucester, who died at 11. She was succeeded by a distant cousin, George, Elector of Hanover.

27. In 1826 Pedro IV became king of Portugal. But of which country had he been monarch since 1822?

From Quiz King Twice Over

Answer: Brazil

The Portuguese royal family had fled to Brazil during the Napoleonic Wars. After the war King Joao VI returned to Portugal leaving his son, Dom Pedro (full name: Pedro de Alcantara Francisco Antonio Joao Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquin Jose Gonzaga Pascual Cipriano Serafim), in Brazil. In 1822 Brazil declared its independence with Pedro as Emperor. In 1826 he became Pedro IV of Portugal but abdicated in favour of his daughter, Maria II, later the same year. In 1831 he abdicated as emperor of Brazil in favour of his son, Pedro II.

28. Nicholas II was the last royal person to rule this country. He was overthrown and murdered 1918. Technically, though, his brother Michael was the last ruler, but he just ruled for a day or two.

From Quiz No Longer Kingdoms

Answer: Russia

The Russian Tsar and his family were of course killed by Communist forces.

29. Reigning at the end of World War One, this last Ottoman sultan lost power in 1922 as the Sultanate itself was abolished. Who was he?

From Quiz End of the Royal Line

Answer: Mehmed VI

Mehmed VI reigned from 1918-1922. He was eventually succeeded by Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Ataturk) after the Turkish War of Independence. Mehmed died in exile in Italy in 1926.

30. His name when translated means King of Scorpions, or Scorpion King. He ruled Upper Egypt during the Protodynastic Period (around B.C. 3200). Who was it?

From Quiz They Ruled the Land

Answer: King Serket

Recently a 5,000 year old graffito bearing the symbols of Kings Scorpion has been discovered.

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