Q 01/05

Which empire fought alone against Britain, France, the Ottomans and Sardinia in the Crimean War?

A) Austria

B) Russia

C) Prussia

D) Persia

Answer · why

B) Russia

The war ran from October 1853 to February 1856; Russia was diplomatically isolated by the end and sued for peace.

Q 02/05

Which tsar's demand to protect the Ottoman Empire's Orthodox subjects was the war's proximate cause?

A) Nicholas I

B) Alexander I

C) Alexander II

D) Paul I

Answer · why

A) Nicholas I

After the Sublime Porte refused, Russian troops occupied the Danubian Principalities in July 1853.

Q 03/05

Outrage over the destruction of an Ottoman squadron at which port drew Britain and France into war?

A) Sinop

B) Varna

C) Odessa

D) Trebizond

Answer · why

A) Sinop

The press called it 'the massacre of Sinope', though the two empires were already at war and no atrocities were proven.

Q 04/05

Allied forces landed in Crimea in September 1854 to capture which Russian naval base?

A) Sevastopol

B) Kerch

C) Odessa

D) Taganrog

Answer · why

A) Sevastopol

The siege lasted eleven months and 337 days before the city fell in September 1855.

Q 05/05

The allies' first victory in Crimea, on 20 September 1854, was fought on the banks of which river?

A) Alma

B) Chernaya

C) Prut

D) Danube

Answer · why

A) Alma

The Russians later admitted that had the allies pressed south that day, they could have walked into Sevastopol.