Weapons and Warfare
- Question: In what American state was the Battle of the Alamo fought?
- Answer: The Battle of the Alamo was fought in 1836 in what is now the Texas city of San Antonio.
- Question: In what country did the bombing of Guernica take place?
- Answer: Guernica, a Basque city in Spain, was bombed by German allies of Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
- Question: What was the Peloponnesian War named for?
- Answer: The Peloponnesian War is named for the Peloponnesus, the peninsula on which Sparta is located.
- Question: Which war did historian Bruce Catton chronicle?
- Answer: Bruce Catton was a famed historian of the American Civil War.
- Question: Who invented the weapon called the revolver?
- Answer: Samuel Colt invented the revolver in 1835.
- Question: Who won the Battle of Trafalgar?
- Answer: The French lost to Admiral Nelson, the British military leader, in the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805.
- Question: Where was the bayonet invented?
- Answer: The bayonet takes its name from the French city of Bayonne, where it was invented about 1650.
- Question: At which battle did the iconic raising of the American flag by U.S. Marines occur?
- Answer: The flag raising depicted today on the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington, D.C., occurred on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II.
- Question: What war was also called The Great War?
- Answer: For many years World War I was known as the Great War and the War to End All Wars because it was the most extensive conflict the world had ever seen up to that time.
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