Q 01/05
A) Seleucid
B) Antigonid
C) Attalid
D) Ptolemaic
Answer · why
Her first language was Greek, and she was the only ruler of her line known to have bothered learning Egyptian.
Q 02/05
A) Tiber River
B) Po Valley
C) Rubicon
D) Arno at Pisa
Answer · why
He was assassinated five years later on the Ides of March by senators led by Brutus and Cassius.
Q 03/05
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Diogenes
Answer · why
Alexander died undefeated in battle at Babylon in 323 BC, the city he intended to make his capital.
Q 04/05
A) Ögedei
B) Jochi
C) Subutai
D) Temüjin
Answer · why
His father, a Borjigin chieftain, died when he was eight and the family was abandoned by its tribe.
Q 05/05
A) About sixteen
B) About nineteen
C) About twenty-three
D) About twenty-seven
Answer · why
She was canonised in 1920, almost five centuries later, and made a patron saint of France in 1922.
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