FREE PUB QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. For which commander was the whole of what is now roughly known as France divided into three parts?
   Julius Caesar
   
   
2. Which victorious English commander is associated with a 20th century Prime Minister, the mnemonic BROM and the architect Vanbrugh?
   John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. BROM = victories in the War of the Spanish Succession: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet (1704-1709). Blenheim Palace, designed and begun by Vanbrugh, was completed by Hawksmoor.
   
   
3. Who was the Desert Fox?
   Rommel
   
   
4. Who defended Haiti against Napoleon, being defeated and dying miserably in Europe?
   Toussaint l'Ouverture
   
   
5. Which American general routed the British at the Battle of New Orleans?
   Andrew Jackson
   
   
6. Born in Tikrit like Saddam Hussein, Saladin was a nuisance to which groups of European campaigners?
   The Crusaders
   
   
7. Which fabled European military unit is associated with Camerón or Camerone in Mexico?
   The French Foreign Legion
   
   
8. What river did German 6th Army reach on 23 August 1942 in the belief that Germany's World War II war aims were thereby fully achieved?
   The Volga - where it spent the next 200 days fighting at Stalingrad
   
   
9. Nelson's naval victory at Aboukir Bay in 1801 is better known as what?
   The Battle of the Nile
   
   
10. For which power did the Bashi-bazouks fight?
    The Ottoman Empire - for which they were essentially cannon fodder
    
    
11. General of the Army in Europe in the latter stages of World War 2, then President of the USA, who was Ike?
    Dwight Eisenhower
    
    
12. The celebrated western The Magnificent Seven is actually a remake of a Japanese film. What - In English - is the title of the original film?
    Seven Samurai