POLL: Who knows all four kings represented in a deck of playing cards?!
Question: 10 points to the first correct answer. On your mark....get set...
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King of Spades: David
King of Hearts: Charles (possibly Charlemagne, or Charles VII, where Rachel would then be the pseudonym of his mistress, Agnès Sorel)
King of Diamonds: Julius Caesar
King of Clubs: Alexander the Great
Queen of Spades: Pallas
Queen of Hearts: Judith
Queen of Diamonds: Rachel (either biblical, historical (see Charles above), or mythical as a corruption of the Celtic Ragnel, relating to Lancelot below)
Queen of Clubs: Argine (possibly an anagram of regina, which is Latin for queen, or perhaps Argea, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus)
Knave of Spades: Ogier the Dane/Holger Danske (a knight of Charlemagne)
Knave of Hearts: La Hire (comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc, and member of Charles VII's court)
Knave of Diamonds: Hector
Knave of Clubs: Judas Maccabeus, or Lancelot
Spades , Hearts , Clubs , Diamonds .
King of Clubs, Spades, Diamonds, Hearts
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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