Can you name the famous wars that took place during these time periods?

Years	War
480 BC – 307 BC
431 BC – 404 BC
280 BC - 275 BC
264 BC – 146 BC
1096 AD – 1291 AD
1301 AD – 1453 AD
1337 AD – 1453 AD
1453 AD – 1487 AD
1618 AD – 1648 AD
1642 AD - 1651 AD
1700 AD - 1721 AD
1701 AD - 1714 AD
1718 AD - 1720 AD
1740 AD - 1748 AD
1756 AD – 1763 AD
1775 AD – 1783 AD
1792 AD – 1802 AD
1803 AD – 1815 AD
1808 AD - 1814 AD
1810 AD – 1821 AD

Years	War
1812 AD – 1815 AD
1853 AD – 1856 AD
1861 AD – 1865 AD
1864 AD - 1870 AD
1866 AD
1870 AD – 1871 AD
1899 AD - 1902 AD
1914 AD – 1918 AD
1917 AD – 1921 AD
1936 AD - 1939 AD
1939 AD – 1945 AD
1946 AD - 1954 AD
1950 AD – 1953 AD
1967
1959 AD – 1975 AD
1980 AD - 1988 AD
1982 AD
1990 AD – 1991 AD
1991 AD - 1995 AD
2003 AD – Present
2003 AD – Present
Mythological
International Relations
U.S. Policy

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Famous Wars Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: January 3rd, 2009
Category: History
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Tags: War Quizzes, Famous Quizzes, took, place, during, period, world history pack

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	zack:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	10 points
	i found 2 bonus answers trojan war and cold war

	chuckart:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:36 GMT	3 points
	i keep typing in us revolution or revolutionary war with no luck

	Txagsforever:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:42 GMT	26 points
	I gave up after no spanish-american war

	James:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:42 GMT	31 points
	Wow, this was tough, only because so many wars have multiple names.

	steeb:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	14 points
	Can the one hundred years war be accepted without needing the apostrophe?

	AhLeah:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:56 GMT	11 points
	I agree re. multiple names for wars. Example: I typed "six-day war" and nothing happened. Then I typed "six day" and nothing happened. ... Bonus answers: Darfur, cold war. (What about the war on drugs? j/k)

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	davidr:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 20:58 GMT	21 points
	I'm surprised none of the many wars in Afghanistan over the years made it into the quiz.

	bsd987:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	14 points
	"American Revolution" and "Six Day War" should be accepted.

	Brandon:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:06 GMT	10 points
	how come it takes french revolution and not american revolution?

	markb1011:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:11 GMT	27 points
	Good idea - poor execution. Too specific on the required answers and not consistant across answers (i.e. as Brandon says, French Revolution is correct, but American Revolution is not).

	Liberal:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	17 points
	No Mexican-American War? No Spanish-American War?

	Havok3595:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:35 GMT	28 points
	I wish Bolshevik Revolution worked, as I know a lot of people refer to the Russian Civil War as that. And Persian Gulf War doesn't count for Gulf War either.

	Robert_Lo:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:39 GMT	54 points
	I don't usually say this, but this list is incredibly European/Western-biased. No Sino-Japanese War?

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	jonnyboy180:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	18 points
	wow a bunch of these were terribly named. russian civil war? try finding that in a (normal) history textbook.

	Hal_10000:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:58 GMT	13 points
	hmm. I like the quiz but find the focus to be off-putting. No wars between 146 BC and 1046 AD. No roman civil war. Few wars outside of America or Western Europe. No Congo War, which is the deadliest conflict of our time. It really reads like a list of wars someone thought of off the top of his head.

	springmom:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 21:58 GMT	19 points
	Quite a number of wars that are famous are missing, or here under very odd names. ElDavo, that was rude, and those wars did alter the course of our history as well. Why don't you go read a book called "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World." Maybe you'll learn something new.

	davidr:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 22:08 GMT	11 points
	@Havok: They're two separate events. The Bolshevik Revolution was the overthrow of the Russian government in St Petersburg by the Bolsheviks, which took only a couple of days. The Civil War was the subsequent fighting between the Bolsheviks and those who opposed their take-over.

	davidr:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	8 points
	@Isaac: Nope. The Russian Civil War was a bona fide war that killed and displaced millions, distinct from the Russian Revolution, which was an almost bloodless coup.

	davidr:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	6 points
	@Hal: Few wars outside America or Western Europe?!? None of the last nine happened in the Americas or Western Europe, for example.

	swellwrench:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	19 points
	Definitely needs to accept a LOT of alternate answers, such as 100 Years['] War/30 Years['] War (with digits rather than spelled out), "War in Iraq," "Second Gulf War," and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" for the "Iraq War," "Balkans Conflict/War" for "Yugoslav Wars," off the top of my head. Fun quiz, though.

	JoeGrzzly:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	14 points
	I reccomend an entire upheaval of the quiz where all the main site members pitch in to find every war in charted history!

	austin massachusetts:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	9 points
	Falkland Islands doesn't count? What the hell? Also, where's the love with the Gallic Wars? Almost every second year Latin student will go through Caesar's narration of his campaign.

	davidr:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 23:35 GMT	40 points
	@JoeGrzzly: "2009-Present Great Sporcle War Quiz War" :-)

Rating:	Report a mistake
Created by: Ben -
Published: January 3rd, 2009
Category: History
Plays: 322,292

	snoozyJ:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 23:58 GMT	8 points
	what about the Opium wars? and why isnt Yugoslavian Civil war acceptable?

	Emperor_Ziggy:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 00:04 GMT	7 points
	Surprised not to see the Glorious Revolution of England as a bonus answer; it was just as violent as the Cold War.

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	BlueWingX:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 00:17 GMT	9 points
	I had fun with this. After getting the Trojan War bonus, the nerd in me was hoping The Clone Wars would be a bonus. Alas, it was not to be. :)

	jereboam:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 00:17 GMT	11 points
	Very inconsistent - sometimes you have to type the word "war", other times it does it for you. The selection is also inconsistent as some very obvious and serious wars have been left out. And it doesn't accept some common names. But an interesting quiz, nevertheless.

	fsuseminoles92:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	4 points
	I like the idea of this quiz, but I don't see how it can be created correctly. There are too many famous wars to list in order to have an accurate and legitimate quiz. I don't know how you can use some but not the others.

	Jesse:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 00:48 GMT	3 points
	what about the mexican-american war in the 1840s and the haitian revolution?

	DLJessup:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	7 points
	Nitpicks: * Isn't the Peninsular War part of the Napoleonic Wars? (Actually, the same could be said for the War of 1812.) * I missed the Mexican War of Independence because I typed "War of Mexican Independence". Grrr.... * "Falkland War" and "Falkland Islands War" don't work.

	davidr:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 01:38 GMT	25 points
	@Lisa: You might never call it the American Civil War. But if I said `the Civil War', I'd be talking about the English Civil War. A Spaniard would be talking about the Spanish Civil War. A Greek or a Russian would be talking about the Greek or Russian Civil War. Everyone just says `the Civil War' to talk about their own but your civil war is not necessarily the same one as the next person's.

	davidr:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 01:52 GMT	7 points
	@Chad C.: It would be impossible to create a list of every war that has ever been fought. But this quiz doesn't ask for such a list; it doesn't even ask you to name every war you can think of. Rather, it asks for specific wars. Just like, for example, the famous deaths quiz asks for specific people and the dog breeds quiz asks for specific kinds of dog.

	jaspa:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 02:56 GMT	2 points
	Well, I'll repeat the consensus complaint: this quiz is far from being comprehensive. While I understand a line has to be drawn somewhere because a truly comprehensive list is impossible, I don't think the line should be drawn separating the United States, Europe, and the Middle East from the rest of the world. People from outside these areas have lost their lives in combat as well and should be recognized just as equally.

	Morbo:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 04:15 GMT	7 points
	The Iran-Iraq war threw me. Thought for sure that was the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan. And as others have said, not having the Spanish-American War is bad.

	Jaspers:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	4 points
	Bonus answer: War on Drugs

	MovieDynamic:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	3 points
	My neighborhood recently split up into two divisions. There has been an ensuing Civil War ever since, and no conclusion has been met. General Scott is fighting hard on the battlefront, but General McArthur is working hard to fight off the defense. Please send reinforcements. A keg of beer would be nice too.