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
Name the centuries-long Iberian campaign, infused with crusading ideals and culminating in 1492, in which Christian kingdoms retook territory from Muslim rule.
Reconquista
Which Syrian city did the Second Crusade famously fail to capture during a four-day siege in July 1148?
Damascus
Founded in 1119, which ideal did the Knights Templar fuse with monasticism to create a new kind of religious warrior?
Chivalry
During sieges like Lisbon in 1147, what tall, wheeled wooden structures let Crusaders approach walls safely and drop gangplanks for assault?
Siege towers