Today’s Atlantic Trivia: ‘Great Men’ and Cataclysmic EventsNEWS | 30 April 2026Will you enter history as one of the greats? That depends on (among other things) how today’s trivia goes.
Atlantic Trivia ‘Great Men’ Shakespeare Disasters From a story (opens in new tab) by Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer In his writing, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel named most frequently three people as “world-historical individuals”: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and what leader who was exiled to the island of St. Helena? Show Hint He was exiled first to Elba. Answer Submit Previous Question Next Question
And by the way, did you know that St. Helena is home to the world’s oldest living land animal? His name is Jonathan, and he is a Seychelles giant tortoise that is at least 193—and very possibly several years older.
(Jonathan is not, however, the third “world-historical individual” picked by Hegel.)
See you tomorrow!Author: Drew Goins. Source
