11 May 2017

Quiz – Answers

by Boffles

1. Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington.
2. PayPal.
3. Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American engineer and scientist (1856-1943) who invented the alternating current (AC) induction motor.
4. The Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II.
5. Bosphorus comes from classical Greek and means cow passage (or ox-ford) and the name refers to the myth of Io who was condemned, after she had the misfortune to attract the attention of Zeus, to wander the earth as a cow until she crossed it.
   

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