The Crusades Trivia
Arm your brain and get ready to pillage history’s wildest battles in our Crusades trivia showdown.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Crusader leaders doubted Antioch’s “Holy Lance” partly because a similar relic was already venerated in which imperial capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
Under Raymond du Puy in the 1120s, the Hospitallers modeled their new military role on which order founded around 1119?
Knights Templar
Name the centuries-long Iberian campaign, infused with crusading ideals and culminating in 1492, in which Christian kingdoms retook territory from Muslim rule.
Reconquista
During sieges like Lisbon in 1147, what tall, wheeled wooden structures let Crusaders approach walls safely and drop gangplanks for assault?
Siege towers
In papal bulls and fiery sermons during the Crusades, Church leaders labeled Muslims with what term to portray them as unworthy guardians of Jerusalem's holy sites?
Infidels