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Trivia Questions

Event that erupted aboard the Potemkin in 1905 & at the Kiel Naval Station in 1918

This redshirts leader led his final campaign when he fought for France in the Franco-Prussian War

In the 1520s this conquistador founded a hospital in Mexico City, perhaps for the Aztecs he wounded

In 1816 French physician Rene Laennec invented this device used to listen to the heart & lungs

In 1895 this scientist could see right through his wife; he took X-rays of her hand

This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine

Having lost about half his troops whil crossing the Alps, he recruited about 15,000 Gauls

During his long reign, this Egyptian king built temples at many sites, including Abu Simbel

Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum

A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt