No Surname Needed Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gilgamesh

Since Gilgamesh is also part of Sumerian mythology, he is definitely a legend, but was also a man. Utnapishtim was the survivor of the Sumerian mythological flood and was granted immortality. It was he whom Gilgamesh sought to find out how to bring Enkidu back to life. Ashurbanipal was an Assyrian king and Pertinax was a Roman emperor who ruled for three months in 193, the "Year of Five Emperors."

Answer: Opechancanough

From 1622 to 1644 Opechancanough fought the English. His end came past the age of 90 when he was captured fighting the newcomers for the last time. It is said he had to be carried into battle lying on a litter and his eyelids had to be held up by warriors so he could see. He was killed by one of his captors.

Wahunsonacock was the native name of Powhatan. Quetzalcoatl was the famed Aztec plumed serpent god, whom the Aztecs believed Cortes to be. Alcibiades was a Greek general.

Answer: Pachacuti

In three years, Pachacuti spread the Inca Empire from a small area around to Cuzco to over half of the length of South America.

Elagabalus was a Roman emperor who ruled for three years up to 222 AD.
Obwondiyag is the Ottawa name of Pontiac, who fought against the British in Pontiac's War prior to the American Revolution.
Axayacatl was the father of Montezuma II, who was conquered by Cortes.

Answer: Plato

Much of Plato's youth is undocumented, and so his names and wrestling prowess are still open to interpretation among scholars, but I'm sticking with my story, which is the most accepted.

Zeno of Citium was the Hellenistic philosopher who founded the Stoic school of philosophy.
Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose Eleatic school of philosophy had a great effect on Plato.
Aristarchus of Samos was a Greek astronomer who was the first to propose a model of the Solar System with the sun at the center.

Answer: Boudica

The Iceni uprising almost caused Nero to withdraw Roman forces from Britain, but Suetonius' victory ended Boudica's rising.

Hippolyta was a mythical queen of the Amazons who owned a magic girdle given to her by Ares, who was also her father.
Semiramis was a mythical queen who restored Babylon and built a high brick wall around it, and then ruled for 42 years.
Zenobia was a queen of Palmyra who also rebelled against Roman rule, taking over Roman trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean lands.

Answer: Hermann

The defeat of Publius Vinctilius Varus is considered the worst defeat ever suffered by Rome and is known in Roman history as the Varian disaster. There is a 175-foot-tall monument to Hermann near Paderborn in Germany and a smaller one at 102 feet in New Ulm, Minnesota. Hermann, Missouri, is also named after the German hero.

Odoacer, of the Sciri tribe, was declared King of Rome in 476, thus ending the Roman Empire in the West.
Siegfried was a mythological German warrior.
Belisarius was the Byzantine general who helped Justinian reinvigorate the Byzantine Empire.

Answer: Zog

"The New York Times" called him "the bizarre King Zog." He took his oath as king by swearing on both the Koran and the Bible. He greatly enjoyed Charlie Chaplin and Shirley Temple movies, but was overthrown by Mussolini's invasion of Albania.

Zoar was a biblical city where Lot fled after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Progon was King of Albania from 1190 to 1198.
John was a French Duke of Durazzo who ruled Albania from 1332 to 1336.

Answer: Temujin

"Genghis Khan" means something like Lord of the Universe or universal ruler, with "khan" being the ruler part. Temujin's birth name means "blacksmith," with Temur meaning "iron." Ogotai (or Ogedei) was Temujin's third son and his successor as Great Khan.

Atli is another form of the name of Attila the Hun, who threatened the Roman Empire in the middle of the fifth century. Timur is another form of the name of Tamerlane, or Timur the Lame, who was a Turkish-Mongol warrior who conquered Persia and established an empire of his known sometimes referred to as the Timurid Empire.

Answer: Goyathle

Geronimo was a major problem for the U.S. Government in its attempts to subjugate the Apaches of the Southwest. He finally surrendered in 1886 and later became something of a celebrity in the East, appearing in the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 and in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade in 1905. But he was never allowed to return to his native Arizona.

Cochise and Mangas Coloradas were other Apache chiefs, while Metcomet, known by the English as King Philip, was a Wampanoag chief and son of Massassoit who fought the English settlers in Massachusetts in King Philip's War.

Answer: Falco

Falco died tragically just two weeks before his 41st birthday in an auto accident in the Dominican Republic in 1998. He is the best-selling Austrian singer of all time.

"Heintje" was a Dutch singer named Hendrik Nikolaas Theodoor Simons. He gained great acclaim as a 12-year-old with a hit song, "Mama."
DJ Ötzi is the stage name of Austrian singer Gerhard Friedle. Born in St. Johann in Tirol, his first big hit was "Hey Baby."
Ötzi is also the name of a natural 5,000-year-old mummy found in the Ötztal Alps.
Heino was a German singer, born Heinz Georg Kramm in 1938 in Düsseldorf. He's known for singing in dark glasses and sings both pop hits (Schlager) and folk music.