97036 Intermediate Trivia Questions
97036 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
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
Which Theban leader is listed among the Greek commanders at Thermopylae?
Answer
Leontiades
What token of submission had Darius demanded from Greek city-states?
Answer
Earth and water
Which near-simultaneous battle with Plataea destroyed much of the Persian fleet?
Answer
Battle of Mycale
Into which straits did Themistocles lure the Persian navy after Thermopylae?
Answer
Straits of Salamis
Which elite Persian unit did Hydarnes lead around the mountain path?
Answer
Immortals
What defensive structure did the Greeks fight in front of at Thermopylae?
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Phocian wall
What Greek formation could block the narrow Thermopylae pass with ease?
Answer
Hoplite phalanx
Which ship canal opened in 1894 to let ocean-going ships reach Manchester?
Answer
Manchester Ship Canal
Which British trade laws on imported grain were repealed in 1846?
Answer
Corn Laws
Which engineer patented a high-pressure steam engine in 1802?
Answer
Richard Trevithick
Which process did Henry Cort patent in 1784 to refine pig iron?
Answer
Puddling
Which sovereign state is the smallest in Africa by area?
Answer
Seychelles
Which country is the smallest in Central America by area?
Answer
El Salvador
Which European microstate covers 468 square kilometers?
Answer
Andorra
Which country covers 652,230 square kilometers in South-Central Asia?
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Afghanistan
At which Yorkshire castle did Richard III spend part of his youth under Warwick's tutelage?
Answer
Middleham Castle
Which Welsh castle surrendered to Yorkist forces on 14 August 1468?
Answer
Harlech Castle
Which Archbishop of York was Warwick the Kingmaker's brother?
Answer
George Neville
Which Warwickshire castle was the birthplace of Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence?
Answer
Warwick Castle
Which noble title did Henry Tudor hold before becoming king?
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Earl of Richmond