fortress
Fortresses are designed to resist military attack. This topic is part of Architecture within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 15 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
fortress trivia questions
A fortress is a strongly defended what?
Answer: Place or building
Bonus fact: Fortresses are designed to resist military attack.
What thick protective walls are characteristic of many fortresses?
Answer: Ramparts
Bonus fact: Ramparts are defensive walls or embankments.
What defensive ditch often surrounds a fortress or castle?
Answer: Moat
Bonus fact: Moats make direct assault more difficult.
What Paris fortress-prison was stormed on July 14, 1789?
Answer: Bastille
Bonus fact: The storming of the Bastille became a symbol of the revolution.
What historic fortress in London houses the Crown Jewels?
Answer: Tower of London
Bonus fact: The Tower has served as fortress, palace, prison, and treasury.
Who directed the 1958 adventure film "The Hidden Fortress"?
Answer: Akira Kurosawa
Bonus fact: The film combines samurai action with humor and a journey across hostile territory.
Which actor plays the general Rokurota Makabe in "The Hidden Fortress"?
Answer: Toshiro Mifune
Bonus fact: Mifune’s general escorts a princess and hidden gold while disguised as ordinary travelers.
"The Hidden Fortress" is frequently cited as an influence on which 1977 science-fiction film?
Answer: Star Wars
Bonus fact: George Lucas has acknowledged similarities in structure, especially the use of low-ranking characters as audience guides into a larger adventure.
Which island fortress in Manila Bay was the last major Allied stronghold to surrender in the 1942 campaign?
Answer: Corregidor
Bonus fact: Corregidor fell after Bataan, marking the collapse of organized Allied resistance in the Philippines at that stage of the war.
Before becoming a museum, the Louvre served primarily as what?
Answer: Royal palace
Bonus fact: Parts of the Louvre began as a medieval fortress before becoming a palace.
Which country captured Port Arthur from Russia in 1905?
Answer: Japan
Bonus fact: Japanese forces took the fortress after a costly siege.
Who suppressed the Kronstadt Rebellion?
Answer: Bolshevik government
Bonus fact: Red Army forces stormed the fortress.