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Quiz
- By what title was Castilian knight and medieval ruler Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar better known?
- Which Spanish conquistador landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 men in 1519?
- Which Spanish navigator completed the first circumnavigation of the world after Fedinand Magellan's death in the Philippines?
- Which general overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War?
- Name the first reigning queen of Spain who is known for her patronage of Columbus's voyages?
- A major conflict of the Napoleonic War, by what name is the War of Spanish Independence better known?
- In which year did the Spanish Civil War end?
- Which English queen was married to Philip II of Spain?
- Name the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire in the 16th century?
- What was the name of the Spanish king who abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son, Felipe VI?
- Which Spanish novel published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, is often considered to be the world's first modern novel?
- In which decade did Spanish painter Pablo Picasso die?
- What is the name of the Moorish fortress and palace complex located in Granada, Spain?
- Which major European conflict involving Spain was fought between 1701 and 1714?
- On 26 April 1937, which Basque town was aerial bombed?
- What name did the Romans use to refer to the entire Iberian Peninsula?
- Which city designated as "Key to the New World and Rampart of the West Indies" was granted city status by King Philip II of Spain in 1592?
- Name the oldest continuously inhabited city in Spain which Columbus used as his launching point for his second voyage to the New World?
- The Spanish Armada set sail from Spain in which year?
- Which Dominican friar was the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition?
- Can you name the daughter of Isabella I and Ferdinand II who became Princess of Wales in 1501?
- What royal title is normally granted at birth to the children of Spanish monarchs?
- Which painter is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
- Which king appointed the Duke of Medina Sidonia as commander of the Spanish Armada?
Answers
- El Cid
- Hernando Cortes
- Juan Sebastian Elcano
- General Francisco Franco
- Isabella I of Castile
- The Peninsular War
- 1939
- Mary I
- Francisco Pizarro
- Juan Carlos I
- Don Quixote (by Miguel de Cervantes)
- 1970s (1973)
- Alhambra
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Guernica
- Hispania
- Havana
- Cadiz
- 1588
- Tomas de Torquemada
- Catherine of Aragon
- Infante of Spain
- Francisco Goya
- Philip II