Who won the decisive Battle of Hattin in 1187?
Answer
Saladin
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Byzantine emperor's request for help spurred the First Crusade?
Answer
Alexios I Komnenos
Which English commander was captured at the Battle of Formigny in 1450?
Answer
Thomas Kyriell
Which English king was the first to use cannon in battle at Crécy?
Answer
Edward III
Which blind king of Bohemia died at the Battle of Crécy?
Answer
John of Bohemia
At which bridge was John the Fearless assassinated in 1419?
Answer
Montereau
Which city did the Black Prince sack in 1370?
Answer
Limoges
Which battle in 1429 was known for using herring barrels as fortifications?
Answer
Battle of the Herrings
What 1423 battle saw a joint English-Burgundian force defeat the French?
Answer
Battle of Cravant
What 1340 truce temporarily halted the war after the Battle of Sluys?
Answer
Truce of Esplechin
What 1367 battle in Castile saw the Black Prince defeat a Franco-Castilian army?
Answer
Battle of Nájera
What 1364 battle was a key French victory under Bertrand du Guesclin?
Answer
Battle of Cocherel
At which battle did the English first use cannon in the Hundred Years' War?
Answer
Battle of Crécy
What battle in 1364 ended the Breton War of Succession?
Answer
Battle of Auray
Who was the Bastard of Orléans, a key French commander?
Answer
Jean de Dunois
Who was the longest-held US prisoner of war in Vietnam?
Answer
Floyd James Thompson
Which South Vietnamese president was overthrown and killed in a 1963 coup?
Answer
Ngo Dinh Diem
How many US service members died in the Vietnam War?
Answer
58,220
Which North Vietnamese general masterminded the Tet Offensive?
Answer
Vo Nguyen Giap
What was the exact date of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords?
Answer
January 27, 1973
What was the longest siege of the American Civil War, lasting nearly ten months?
Answer
Siege of Petersburg
Which Confederate general won the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863?
Answer
Robert E. Lee
What Confederate prison camp in Georgia had the official name Camp Sumter?
Answer
Andersonville Prison
What 1861 law created the first U.S. federal income tax to help fund the Civil War?
Answer
Revenue Act of 1861
Who commanded the U.S. Colored Troops division at the Battle of the Crater?
Answer
Edward Ferrero
Which Confederate commerce raider fired the last shot of the Civil War?
Answer
CSS Shenandoah
Which Texas battle in May 1865 was the last land battle of the Civil War?
Answer
Palmito Ranch
Which Union spy, known as 'Crazy Bet', operated a spy ring in Richmond?
Answer
Elizabeth Van Lew
On what exact date did Robert E. Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House?
Answer
April 9, 1865
Which female Confederate spy was imprisoned in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington?
Answer
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
How many African American soldiers served in the Union Army?
Answer
About 180,000
What was the name of the Confederate submarine that sank a Union warship?
Answer
H. L. Hunley
Who was the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor for Civil War service?
Answer
Mary Edwards Walker
How many Union soldiers died in the Civil War (approximate)?
Answer
About 360,000
About how long is the Aleutian Trench?
Answer
3,400 km
Which trench contains Richards Deep, about 8,065 m below sea level?
Answer
Peru-Chile Trench
Who first proposed the term hadal in 1956?
Answer
Anton Frederik Bruun
Which support vessel surveyed deep sites for Limiting Factor dives?
Answer
DSSV Pressure Drop
Which Soviet vessel recorded 11,034 m in Challenger Deep in 1957?
Answer
RV Vityaz
Which plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk plate at the Japan Trench?
Answer
Pacific Plate