What name is given to the French peasant uprising of 1358?
Answer
Jacquerie
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What treaty in 1435 ended the Burgundian alliance with England?
Answer
Treaty of Arras
Who was the French commander at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer
Charles d'Albret
What treaty in 1420 recognized Henry V as heir to the French throne?
Answer
Treaty of Troyes
Which English prince was known as the Black Prince?
Answer
Edward of Woodstock
Which English king claimed the French throne, starting the war?
Answer
Edward III
Which treaty in 1360 ended the first phase of the Hundred Years' War?
Answer
Treaty of Brétigny
Which US general replaced William Westmoreland as commander in Vietnam in 1968?
Answer
Creighton Abrams
What was the name of the US operation to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail from 1968 to 1972?
Answer
Operation Commando Hunt
Which 1965 battle was the first major engagement between US and North Vietnamese forces?
Answer
Battle of Ia Drang
Which 1968 event saw US soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed villagers in Quang Ngai province?
Answer
My Lai Massacre
Which 1971 document revealed the US government's pessimistic assessment of the war?
Answer
Pentagon Papers
What was the name of the secret US bombing campaign in Cambodia in 1969-1970?
Answer
Operation Menu
Which US general commanded US forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968?
Answer
William Westmoreland
Which US president initiated the policy of 'Vietnamization' to withdraw US troops?
Answer
Richard Nixon
Which battle in 1968 saw US Marines besieged at a combat base for 77 days?
Answer
Battle of Khe Sanh
Which November 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln is only about two minutes long?
Answer
Gettysburg Address
Which Union general commanded the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign?
Answer
George B. McClellan
Which Union admiral captured New Orleans in 1862?
Answer
David Farragut
Which famous African American Union regiment led the 1863 assault on Fort Wagner?
Answer
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Which U.S. general proposed the Union's Anaconda Plan?
Answer
Winfield Scott
Which Civil War nurse founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
Answer
Clara Barton
Which photographer's New York gallery exhibited The Dead of Antietam in 1862?
Answer
Mathew Brady
Which Union warship was sunk by the submarine H. L. Hunley in 1864?
Answer
USS Housatonic
Which fort near Savannah fell to Union rifled artillery in April 1862?
Answer
Fort Pulaski
Which Confederate general led the division in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg?
Answer
George Pickett
Which 1862 New Mexico battle is sometimes called the Gettysburg of the West?
Answer
Glorieta Pass
Which June 1863 battle was the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War?
Answer
Brandy Station
Who was the last Confederate general to surrender his command?
Answer
Stand Watie
Which Union ironclad was sunk by a torpedo at the Battle of Mobile Bay?
Answer
USS Tecumseh
Which Confederate general was wounded by friendly fire at the Battle of the Wilderness?
Answer
James Longstreet
Which Union general was known as 'the Rock of Chickamauga'?
Answer
George Henry Thomas
What Union victory in July 1863 split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River?
Answer
Siege of Vicksburg
Which Confederate general died at the Battle of Shiloh?
Answer
Albert Sidney Johnston
What battle in 1862 was the first battle between ironclad warships?
Answer
Battle of Hampton Roads
Which Confederate cavalry general was killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern in 1864?
Answer
J.E.B. Stuart