Terms: |Politics|
Published: 6. 4. 2026.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote in 1893, but in which country were the first female members of parliament in history elected in 1907?
Finland
Published: 6. 4. 2026.
Which dictator, alone among those who claimed allegiance to communism, socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism and Trotskyism, fused every ideology into one grotesque absurdity and in the process killed nearly a third of his own nation?
Pol Pot
Terms: |England|
Published: 2. 4. 2026.
What was the name of Catherine Parr’s third husband?
Henry VIII
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
Somewhere between 6500 and 6200 BC, rising waters finally submerged the broad area of land that had connected Great Britain with continental Europe. The region extended from the eastern coast of what is now Britain to the Netherlands, the western coastline of Germany, and the Jutland peninsula. It was once a rich natural habitat inhabited by Mesolithic peoples. What name has modern science given to this vanished territory, if the term comes from seventeenth-century Dutch fishing craft?
Doggerland
Terms: |Erwin Rommel| |Germany| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Shortly after the failed 1944 plot against Hitler, all those involved in the conspiracy, as well as many merely suspected of involvement, were put to death. Only a few were offered the option of suicide. One of them was Erwin Rommel, among the best German generals of the war, who was forced to take his own life soon after the failure of the plot. What was the nickname of this general, earned during the fighting in North Africa?
The Desert Fox
Terms: |USA|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which President of the United States remains the only one never to have married, and is widely remembered for presiding over the deepening national crisis immediately before the Civil War?
James Buchanan
Terms: |USA|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
What was the name of the enslaved man who, after the death of his owner and after having lived in free territories where he married and had children, brought a lawsuit seeking recognition as a free person — a case that led to what is often regarded as the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the Constitution did not extend citizenship to people of Black African descent?
Dred Scott
Terms: |CBS| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS correspondent reporting from Europe during the Second World War, regularly ended his broadcasts with which now-iconic phrase?
Good night, and good luck
Terms: |France| |Germany| |Normandy| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Perhaps the most famous tank commander of the Second World War was a German officer highly decorated for destroying more than 100 tanks on the Eastern Front. He became especially famous in Normandy, where, according to German accounts, he destroyed 14 British tanks and 15 transport vehicles in a single action with his Tiger. What was his name?
Terms: |Russia| |Soviet Union| |Stalingrad| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
What was the codename of the late-1942 Soviet operation that encircled the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, a name it shared with a planet of the Solar System?
Operation Uranus