Which pike did Henry Heth's men follow east toward Gettysburg on July 1?
Answer
Chambersburg Pike
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Confederate general led McLaws' Division at Gettysburg?
Answer
Lafayette McLaws
Who commanded the Union XI Corps at Gettysburg?
Answer
Oliver O. Howard
Who commanded the Confederate Second Corps at Gettysburg?
Answer
Richard S. Ewell
What is Mount Everest's height to the nearest meter?
Answer
8,849 meters
What is Portugal's highest mountain, including the Azores?
Answer
Mount Pico
What is the highest summit in Switzerland?
Answer
Dufourspitze
What is the highest mountain in Spain's Sierra Nevada range?
Answer
Mulhacen
What is the highest mountain in South Korea?
Answer
Hallasan
Which Sanskrit play by Vishakhadatta dramatizes Chandragupta Maurya's rise?
Answer
Mudrarakshasa
Which early script was used for the oldest known Tamil inscriptions?
Answer
Tamil-Brahmi
Which Buddhist text records dialogues between King Menander and the monk Nagasena?
Answer
Milinda Panha
Which Buddhist stupa in Andhra Pradesh was a major center of early Buddhist art?
Answer
Amaravati Stupa
Which Indo-Greek ambassador erected the Heliodorus pillar?
Answer
Heliodorus
Which Indus Valley site in Haryana is among the largest Harappan sites?
Answer
Rakhigarhi
Which Mahajanapada had Taxila as a major city?
Answer
Gandhara
Which Vedic royal ritual involved the sacrifice of a horse?
Answer
Ashvamedha
Which ancient Indian poet is credited with writing the Buddhacharita?
Answer
Ashvaghosha
Which ruler founded the Shunga dynasty after the Maurya Empire ended?
Answer
Pushyamitra Shunga
Which Greek biographer wrote a Life of Caesar in Parallel Lives?
Answer
Plutarch
Who offered Caesar a diadem at the Lupercalia in 44 BC?
Answer
Mark Antony
What temple in the Roman Forum was dedicated to the deified Julius Caesar?
Answer
Temple of Caesar
At which 48 BC battle did Pompey defeat Caesar before Pharsalus?
Answer
Dyrrhachium
Which province across the Alps was part of Caesar's Gallic command?
Answer
Transalpine Gaul
Which province of northern Italy was part of Caesar's proconsular command?
Answer
Cisalpine Gaul
Which canyon did Coronado's expedition become the first Europeans to see?
Answer
Grand Canyon
Which explorer led Spain's 1540 expedition into the American Southwest?
Answer
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Which English explorer claimed Newfoundland for England in 1583?
Answer
Humphrey Gilbert
Which Dutch navigator discovered Bear Island and Spitsbergen in 1596?
Answer
Willem Barentsz
Which English explorer made three voyages seeking the Northwest Passage in the 1570s?
Answer
Martin Frobisher
What sea battle in 1509 secured Portuguese dominance in the Indian Ocean?
Answer
Battle of Diu
Which admiral captured Malacca for Portugal in 1511?
Answer
Afonso de Albuquerque
What annual Spanish trade route linked Manila and Acapulco for over two centuries?
Answer
Manila galleon
Which Spaniard founded Manila in 1571?
Answer
Miguel López de Legazpi
What 1529 treaty fixed Spain and Portugal's boundary claims in Asia?
Answer
Treaty of Zaragoza