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The History Pack
History deals 37 prompts about empires, wars, inventions, explorers and firsts. The dates everyone memorised in school are the surface here; the deep answers are the turning points school skipped.
How to dive deeper in history
Go one step sideways from the famous event: not the battle but the treaty, not the invention but its forgotten rival, not the empire but the one it replaced.
Every prompt on this shelf is listed below with its full page — answers included. Study the tail of a few prompts and the shape of this category's rarity will start to feel predictable; that feeling is worth real points in the daily dive.
All history prompts
- Name something with a crown
- Name an ancient civilization
- Name a Roman emperor
- Name a famous explorer
- Name a famous battle
- Name an Egyptian pharaoh
- Name a US president
- Name a famous queen
- Name a medieval weapon
- Name a wonder of the world
- Name a famous shipwreck
- Name a revolutionary leader
- Name an ancient Greek philosopher
- Name a famous pirate
- Name a dynasty of China
- Name a famous general
- Name an ancient writing system
- Name a famous treaty
- Name a famous castle
- Name a 20th-century war
- Name a famous spy
- Name an ancient city
- Name a colonial power
- Name a civil rights leader
- Name an ancient empire
- Name a Viking explorer
- Name a historic trade route
- Name a famous ancient library
- Name a historical pandemic
- Name a Renaissance artist
- Name a famous abolitionist
- Name a famous speech in history
- Name a type of gladiator
- Name a famous map
- Name a historic Olympic host city
- Name a famous ancient temple
- Name a famous empress
- Name a famous knight