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Terms: |Ancient Greece|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
If the sons in question were Hipparchus, the more serious and politically capable one, and Hippias, described as more pleasure-seeking and loose in character, then their father must have been which tyrant?
Peisistratus
Terms: |Ancient Greece| |Athens|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Draco’s name gave rise to the term draconian, used for extremely harsh laws and punishments. In which Greek city-state did he write his famous code?
Athens
Terms: |Athletics|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Which athlete became the first sportsman to appear as the main motif on a banknote in a European country, if we know he was a track-and-field legend?
Paavo Nurmi
Terms: |Military History| |Tank Warfare| |World War II|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
One of the most famous German tank commanders of the Second World War was credited with destroying more than 100 tanks on the Eastern Front. He became especially famous after the fighting in Normandy, where propaganda claimed that his Tiger destroyed 14 British tanks and 15 transport vehicles. What was his name?
Michael Wittmann
Terms: |Biology|
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
The first known system for classifying animals goes back to antiquity, when one philosopher divided them into flying, land-dwelling, and aquatic types. What was the name of the philosopher behind this early classification?
Aristotle
Terms: |Mexico|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Pancho Villa is one of the most recognizable Mexican revolutionaries and freedom fighters, but Pancho itself is only a nickname. What first name stands behind that nickname?
Francisco
Terms: |Cold War| |Cuba| |Fidel Castro|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
In 1961, around 1,400 Cuban exiles, backed by the CIA, attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro. They landed in a bay, but the operation ended in complete failure. Which animal gives that bay its name?
Pigs
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
Even though it had long been the real center of power since the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo only became the official capital in 1868, when the imperial court moved there and the city received its present name. What was it called before that?
Edo
Terms: |American History| |American Presidents| |JFK|
Published: 5. 5. 2026.
JFK did not die immediately at the scene. He was taken to a Dallas hospital, where doctors tried to save his life, but it was there that he was officially declared dead. What was the name of that hospital?
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Terms: |England| |Great Britain| |Pirates|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
In Elizabethan England, one seafaring adventurer became famous for exploring the New World and raiding Spanish ships, and later received a title of nobility from the queen. As the second man to sail around the world, what was his name?
Francis Drake