Europe (General)

Question 1

This is the term given to periods during which the Holy Roman Empire had no emperor.

Answer 1

Interregnum

Question 2

This “Great” monarch prevented England from completely falling to the Danes in the 800’s.

Answer 2

Alfred The Great

Question 3

The medieval Duchy of Savoy was located in the western Alps, but its ruling House of Savoy later sat on the throne of what European nation from 1861 to 1946?

Answer 3

The Casa Savoia, consisting of Victor Emmanuel I and his heirs, reigned over a united Italy for almost a century.

Question 4

Once Europe’s leading military power and later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947.

Answer 4

Prussia

Question 5

Archery marksmanship and operatic inspiration are legacies of what legendary 13th/14th-century hero of Swiss liberation from Austrian oppressors?

Answer 5

William Tell

Question 6

What Frank was crowned “Emperor of the Romans” on Christmas Day in the year 800 CE?

Answer 6

Charlemagne