EUROPEAN HISTORY QUESTIONS
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In 2005, what country's monarch admitted that he'd had a son named Alexandre by a Togolese stewardess named Nicole Coste?
Who rode a white Arab stallion called Marengo, which had the characteristic jibbah forehead bump of an Arab?
The two opposing military leaders at this battle rode horses named Marengo and Copenhagen. What was the battle?
Authorities in what country apparently tried to stop Viktor Yushchenko and his Orange Revolution by putting dioxin in his soup?
In 1945, Dwight Eisenhower became the only American ever awarded what nation's Order of Victory?
On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in Samarkand opened this person's sarcophagus and read the inscription, "Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Who was this dead curser?
What country did Jacques Chirac have in mind in 2005 week when he said, "You can't trust people who have such lousy cooking"?
Which Russian group, drawn from about 200 families, were once medieval nobles until their status was abolished altogether by Peter I?
On July 10, 1943, Operation Husky began, when the Allies invaded what island?
What battle, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars, was described by Leo Tolstoy in "War and Peace" and was celebrated in Peter Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"?
Despite a series of criminal controversies, Silvio Berlusconi became the longest serving prime minister in what country's notoriously turbulent history?
Although known as the Little Corporal, what historical figure was actually about average height for people of his era?
What country was creating by joining Moldavia and Wallachia from the Ottoman Empire, then annexing Transylvania from the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Father Ange Vignali was on hand when this man died on May 5, 1821, which didn't stop him from stealing his penis. Who was this dearly departed?
What WWI battle made a hero out of Mustafa Kemal and a skunk out of Winston Churchill, who as first lord of the admiralty had helped plan the fiasco?
In a 2005 poll, whom did the people of France select as Le Plus Grand Francais?
Konrad Adenauer was voted at the top of "Unsere Besten," or "Our Best," a poll run on what country's ZDF network?
Who was voted #1 in the Belg der Belgen poll run by the Belgian newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad, to find that country's greatest ever citizen?
King Charles IV was voted "Nejvetsi Cech," or the "greatest" citizen of what country, in a poll by its state TV broadcaster?
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are trying to break away from what former Soviet republic?
Tiergartenstrasse 4, or T-4 for short, was a Nazi program. What did it do?
From 1808 to 1814, the Peninsular War raged across what peninsula?
France invaded this country in 1838, after soldiers ransacked a shop owned by a French citizen in Veracruz. We call it the Pastry War, but the locals called it La guerra de los pasteles, and it cost General Santa Anna his leg. What country was this?
The Reign of Terror began after what editor of L'ami du Peuple was stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday as he lay in his bath, treating a skin condition?
On June 20, 1789, members of the French Assembly agreed not to separate until there was a new constitution. Where were they at the time?
In the 1850s, what Italian nationalist lived as a candlemaker in State Island?
Despite an awkward tattoo that read "Death to all Kings," French revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Charles XIV John of what country anyway?
What was the first European capital liberated by Allied troops during WWII?
My vas pokhoronim! While addressing Western ambassadors at a Moscow reception in November 1956, who said, "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you"?
On gaining its independence, what country made polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen its first ambassador to Britain?
Founded as a Genoese colony in 1215, what country was a protectorate of Sardinia in the 1800s?
Which of these fascists did not have a nickname meaning "The Leader"?
What city, found where the Neva River flows into the Gulf of Finland, changed its name three times in the 20th-century?
The Orlov is said to be an Indian diamond known as the Great Mogul, but was set in a scepter by which ruler?
The Sancy, the French Blue and the Regent were stolen from the Royal Treasury during the French Revolution. What are they?
Found in India in 1701, this diamond was stolen during the French Revolution, but turned up 15 months later in a hole under the timberwork of a Paris garret. Napoleon wore in a sword and today it is in the Louvre. What is it?
One of the great sex scandals of the 1800s erupted on January 30, 1889, when Archduke Rudolf and his mistress, Maria Vetsera, were found dead at Mayerling, Rudolf's hunting lodge. Of what was he archduke?
When did Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that let them divide Poland?
In the United States, it's called King George's War. What did the Europeans call it?
Margaret Thatcher was a conservative chemist and Britain's first female prime minister. Angela Merkel was the conservative physicist who became what country's first female chancellor?
Who rode a white Arab stallion called Marengo, which had the characteristic jibbah forehead bump of an Arab?
The two opposing military leaders at this battle rode horses named Marengo and Copenhagen. What was the battle?
Authorities in what country apparently tried to stop Viktor Yushchenko and his Orange Revolution by putting dioxin in his soup?
In 1945, Dwight Eisenhower became the only American ever awarded what nation's Order of Victory?
On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in Samarkand opened this person's sarcophagus and read the inscription, "Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Who was this dead curser?
What country did Jacques Chirac have in mind in 2005 week when he said, "You can't trust people who have such lousy cooking"?
Which Russian group, drawn from about 200 families, were once medieval nobles until their status was abolished altogether by Peter I?
On July 10, 1943, Operation Husky began, when the Allies invaded what island?
What battle, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars, was described by Leo Tolstoy in "War and Peace" and was celebrated in Peter Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"?
Despite a series of criminal controversies, Silvio Berlusconi became the longest serving prime minister in what country's notoriously turbulent history?
Although known as the Little Corporal, what historical figure was actually about average height for people of his era?
What country was creating by joining Moldavia and Wallachia from the Ottoman Empire, then annexing Transylvania from the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Father Ange Vignali was on hand when this man died on May 5, 1821, which didn't stop him from stealing his penis. Who was this dearly departed?
What WWI battle made a hero out of Mustafa Kemal and a skunk out of Winston Churchill, who as first lord of the admiralty had helped plan the fiasco?
In a 2005 poll, whom did the people of France select as Le Plus Grand Francais?
Konrad Adenauer was voted at the top of "Unsere Besten," or "Our Best," a poll run on what country's ZDF network?
Who was voted #1 in the Belg der Belgen poll run by the Belgian newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad, to find that country's greatest ever citizen?
King Charles IV was voted "Nejvetsi Cech," or the "greatest" citizen of what country, in a poll by its state TV broadcaster?
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are trying to break away from what former Soviet republic?
Tiergartenstrasse 4, or T-4 for short, was a Nazi program. What did it do?
From 1808 to 1814, the Peninsular War raged across what peninsula?
France invaded this country in 1838, after soldiers ransacked a shop owned by a French citizen in Veracruz. We call it the Pastry War, but the locals called it La guerra de los pasteles, and it cost General Santa Anna his leg. What country was this?
The Reign of Terror began after what editor of L'ami du Peuple was stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday as he lay in his bath, treating a skin condition?
On June 20, 1789, members of the French Assembly agreed not to separate until there was a new constitution. Where were they at the time?
In the 1850s, what Italian nationalist lived as a candlemaker in State Island?
Despite an awkward tattoo that read "Death to all Kings," French revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Charles XIV John of what country anyway?
What was the first European capital liberated by Allied troops during WWII?
My vas pokhoronim! While addressing Western ambassadors at a Moscow reception in November 1956, who said, "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you"?
On gaining its independence, what country made polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen its first ambassador to Britain?
Founded as a Genoese colony in 1215, what country was a protectorate of Sardinia in the 1800s?
Which of these fascists did not have a nickname meaning "The Leader"?
What city, found where the Neva River flows into the Gulf of Finland, changed its name three times in the 20th-century?
The Orlov is said to be an Indian diamond known as the Great Mogul, but was set in a scepter by which ruler?
The Sancy, the French Blue and the Regent were stolen from the Royal Treasury during the French Revolution. What are they?
Found in India in 1701, this diamond was stolen during the French Revolution, but turned up 15 months later in a hole under the timberwork of a Paris garret. Napoleon wore in a sword and today it is in the Louvre. What is it?
One of the great sex scandals of the 1800s erupted on January 30, 1889, when Archduke Rudolf and his mistress, Maria Vetsera, were found dead at Mayerling, Rudolf's hunting lodge. Of what was he archduke?
When did Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that let them divide Poland?
In the United States, it's called King George's War. What did the Europeans call it?
Margaret Thatcher was a conservative chemist and Britain's first female prime minister. Angela Merkel was the conservative physicist who became what country's first female chancellor?