History by Letter: D
History by Letter: D
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1 Which Spanish surrealist artist is most well-known for pieces such as The Persistence of Memory and his extravagant moustache?
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Which 19th century politician and adversary of William Gladstone, is the only British prime minister to-date to have been born Jewish?
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Which Phoenician queen is credited with having founded the ancient city of Carthage near to modern day Tunis?
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Which 'great' king of Persia's attempt to conquer Greece ended in failure following a loss at the battle of Marathon in 490BC?
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Which city in Syria holds a claim to being the oldest continually inhabited capital in the world, having first been settled in the second millennium BC?
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Which Italian Rennaissance polymath is perhaps most well-known for his painting the Mona Lisa, which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris?
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Which general and resistance leader served as President of France from 1959 to 1969, and has an airport in Paris named after him?
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What name is given to priests of various Celtic religions, though particularly those of pre-Roman Britain?
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What is the most famous invention of Alfred Nobel - the man after which the Nobel Prizes are named?
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Which French philosopher is most well-remembered for his Latin proposition 'Cogito, ergo sum' - which roughly translates to 'I think, therefore I am'?
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Which controversial naturalist, geologist and biologist was born on the 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and would go on to marry his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood?
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Which Victorian writer created famous characters such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby?
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Which English explorer and privateer undertook only the second continuous circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580?
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Which large flightless bird, native to Mauritius, became extinct shortly after human occupation began during the 16th and 17th centuries?
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What is the name of the 17ft marble Renaissance statue of a man by Michelangelo, which currently stands in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence?
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What name is given to the series of amphibious Allied landings in Normandy on June 6th, 1944 as part of Operation Overlord?
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Which Hollywood heartthrob and star of Rebel Without a Cause sadly died in a car crash in 1955, aged just 24?
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What title was given to the leaders of medieval Venice, whose palace still stands on St. Mark's Square in the city?
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Which small state ("the First State") on the US Eastern seaboard was the first to ratify the constitution, in 1787?
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What name, meaning 'Ocean Guru' is given to the Buddhist spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, the current of which fled China during civil unrest in 1959?
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1 Which Spanish surrealist artist is most well-known for pieces such as The Persistence of Memory and his extravagant moustache?Salvador Dali
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Which 19th century politician and adversary of William Gladstone, is the only British prime minister to-date to have been born Jewish?Benjamin Disraeli
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Which Phoenician queen is credited with having founded the ancient city of Carthage near to modern day Tunis?Dido
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Which 'great' king of Persia's attempt to conquer Greece ended in failure following a loss at the battle of Marathon in 490BC?Darius I
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Which city in Syria holds a claim to being the oldest continually inhabited capital in the world, having first been settled in the second millennium BC?Damascus
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Which Italian Rennaissance polymath is perhaps most well-known for his painting the Mona Lisa, which now hangs in the Louvre in Paris?Leonardo Da Vinci
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Which general and resistance leader served as President of France from 1959 to 1969, and has an airport in Paris named after him?Charles De Gaulle
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What name is given to priests of various Celtic religions, though particularly those of pre-Roman Britain?Druid
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What is the most famous invention of Alfred Nobel - the man after which the Nobel Prizes are named?Dynamite
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Which French philosopher is most well-remembered for his Latin proposition 'Cogito, ergo sum' - which roughly translates to 'I think, therefore I am'?René Descartes
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Which controversial naturalist, geologist and biologist was born on the 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and would go on to marry his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood?Charles Darwin
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Which Victorian writer created famous characters such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby?Charles Dickens
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Which English explorer and privateer undertook only the second continuous circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580?Sir Francis Drake
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Which large flightless bird, native to Mauritius, became extinct shortly after human occupation began during the 16th and 17th centuries?Dodo
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What is the name of the 17ft marble Renaissance statue of a man by Michelangelo, which currently stands in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence?David
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What name is given to the series of amphibious Allied landings in Normandy on June 6th, 1944 as part of Operation Overlord?D-Day
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Which Hollywood heartthrob and star of Rebel Without a Cause sadly died in a car crash in 1955, aged just 24?James Dean
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What title was given to the leaders of medieval Venice, whose palace still stands on St. Mark's Square in the city?Doge
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Which small state ("the First State") on the US Eastern seaboard was the first to ratify the constitution, in 1787?Delaware
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What name, meaning 'Ocean Guru' is given to the Buddhist spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, the current of which fled China during civil unrest in 1959?Dalai Lama
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