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Throughout history, trivia has always been more than a game.

In ancient Greece, scholars tested each other’s wit in symposiums. In 12th-century Baghdad, thinkers debated questions in bustling libraries. Even in medieval Europe, monarchs used riddles and logic games to assess the sharpness of their advisors.

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The Moment the World Went to War.

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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – June 28, 1914
In Sarajevo, Bosnia, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie are shot and killed by a Bosnian Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip.

Their deaths set off a geopolitical chain reaction that would become World War I.

📌 Why This Matters

The assassination is often called the spark that ignited the powder keg of Europe. But the explosives had been laid for decades: Militarism. Imperialism. Nationalism. Entangled alliances.

The result was a war unlike any seen before: Trenches stretching across Europe. Machine guns. Chemical weapons. Stalemates that lasted months.

And from that devastation came modern geopolitics: The fall of empires. The Russian Revolution. The Treaty of Versailles. The seeds of WWII.

Understanding WWI begins with understanding June 28, 1914.

🧠 How Well Do You Know the Spark That Started WWI?

Test your knowledge of the assassination, the players, and the events that pulled the world into catastrophe.

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