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Quiz about Ten Influential People Who Are They

Ten Influential People: Who Are They? Quiz

This moderately difficult quiz will test your knowledge of the past two and a half thousand years.

A multiple-choice quiz by charlemagne. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
charlemagne

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
1,009

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
5078

Last 3 plays: Guest 75 (9/10), GBfan (7/10), leith90 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What prince founded one of the world's most populous religions and later became known as the Buddha? Hint

Tige Babur

Siddhartha Gautama

Osman Bey

Mahmet Stai

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Question 2 of 10

2. What Macedonian King was one of the greatest innovators of ancient warfare and the father of Alexander the Great? Hint

Philip

Lycurgus

Alexander I

Lepidus

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Roman Emperor divided the empire into eastern and western halves effectively creating the Byzantine Empire? Hint

Diocletian

Hadrian

Augustus

Justinian

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which Roman or Byzantine Emperor issued the Edict of Milan making Christianity legal in the empire? Hint

Augustus

Tiberius

Antoninus Pius

Constantine

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Frankish defeated a Muslim raiding party at Tours (also claimed as Poitiers) checking Muslim advance into Western Europe? Hint

Charles Martel

Roland

Pepin

Charlemagne

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Question 6 of 10

6. What English commander defeated Napoleon at Waterloo ending the 'Hundred Days' and signaling the end of the French Emperor? Hint

Horatio Nelson

Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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Question 7 of 10

7. What Austrian politician's agenda at the Congress of Vienna organized Europe for the greater part of the period 1815-48? Hint

Wellington

Metternich

Alexander

Maximillian

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Question 8 of 10

8. What Prussian politician was responsible for Germany's rise to power in the later parts of the 19th century? Hint

Bismarck

Wilhelm I

Moltke

B�low

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Question 9 of 10

9. Henry Ford made the automobile affordable, but who created the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine to make the car possible? Hint

Benz

Daimler

Otto

Mercedes

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparking a short range cause of World War I? Hint

Atsung

Sati

Princip

Canti

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What prince founded one of the world's most populous religions and later became known as the Buddha?

Answer: Siddhartha Gautama

After becoming enlightened while meditating under a bodi tree, Gautama became the Buddha.

2. What Macedonian King was one of the greatest innovators of ancient warfare and the father of Alexander the Great?

Answer: Philip

Philip II was the creator of the Macedonian Phalanx and fathered one of the brightest military minds of the period.

3. Which Roman Emperor divided the empire into eastern and western halves effectively creating the Byzantine Empire?

Answer: Diocletian

Diocletion divided the great empire and named a second emperor to more effectivley administer the empire.

4. Which Roman or Byzantine Emperor issued the Edict of Milan making Christianity legal in the empire?

Answer: Constantine

5. Which Frankish defeated a Muslim raiding party at Tours (also claimed as Poitiers) checking Muslim advance into Western Europe?

Answer: Charles Martel

6. What English commander defeated Napoleon at Waterloo ending the 'Hundred Days' and signaling the end of the French Emperor?

Answer: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

7. What Austrian politician's agenda at the Congress of Vienna organized Europe for the greater part of the period 1815-48?

Answer: Metternich

8. What Prussian politician was responsible for Germany's rise to power in the later parts of the 19th century?

Answer: Bismarck

9. Henry Ford made the automobile affordable, but who created the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine to make the car possible?

Answer: Benz

10. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparking a short range cause of World War I?

Answer: Princip

Source: Author charlemagne

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