Famous Feuds

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Instructions: Historic rivalries and feuds between people and families

1.
The Hatfields and McCoys are perhaps America's most famous feuding families. In which U.S. states did they live?
A
West Virginia and Kentucky
B
Virginia and North Carolina
C
Tennessee and Kentucky
D
Alabama and Mississippi
2.
Which two powerful Italian families had a famous rivalry that inspired Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A
Sforza and Visconti
B
Medici and Borgia
C
Colonna and Orsini
D
Montague and Capulet
3.
The brothers who founded Adidas and Puma had a famous feud. What was their surname?
A
Schmidt
B
Müller
C
Dassler
D
Fischer
4.
Which two famous American politicians had a bitter rivalry that culminated in a deadly duel in 1804?
A
Jefferson and Adams
B
Hamilton and Burr
C
Jackson and Clay
D
Lincoln and Douglas
5.
The Wars of the Roses was a feudal conflict between which two English royal houses?
A
Tudor and Stuart
B
Windsor and Hanover
C
Lancaster and York
D
Plantagenet and Tudor
6.
Which two famous composers had a well-known rivalry in 18th-century Vienna?
A
Beethoven and Schubert
B
Mozart and Salieri
C
Haydn and Gluck
D
Bach and Handel
7.
Which famous American newspaper magnates engaged in a ruthless circulation war known as 'Yellow Journalism'?
A
Henry Luce and DeWitt Wallace
B
Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett
C
Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner
D
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
8.
The Guelphs and Ghibellines were rival factions in which country during the Middle Ages?
A
Spain
B
France
C
England
D
Italy
9.
Which two tech company founders had a famous decades-long rivalry in the personal computer industry?
A
Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg
B
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
C
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
D
Michael Dell and Steve Wozniak
10.
Which two famous boxing rivals fought three times, including the 'Thrilla in Manila'?
A
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
B
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao
C
Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán
D
Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield
11.
The feud between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots, ended with what outcome?
A
Mary's execution
B
A peace treaty
C
Elizabeth's abdication
D
Mary's exile to France
12.
Which two famous rappers had an East Coast-West Coast feud in the 1990s?
A
Dr. Dre and Suge Knight
B
Jay-Z and Nas
C
Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.
D
Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly
13.
What long-running political feud existed between U.S. Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
A
They had opposing visions for the new nation's government
B
They feuded over land rights
C
They competed for the same woman
D
They disagreed over slavery only
14.
Which famous literary feud saw Mark Twain openly criticize which other American author's writing?
A
Edgar Allan Poe
B
Nathaniel Hawthorne
C
James Fenimore Cooper
D
Herman Melville
15.
The Campbell and MacDonald clans in Scotland had a centuries-long feud. What infamous 1692 event marked its darkest chapter?
A
The Jacobite Rising
B
The Highland Clearances
C
The Massacre of Glencoe
D
The Battle of Culloden

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