| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Statue which France gave to the United States | Statue of Liberty | 98%
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| Artist who cut off part of his ear | Vincent Van Gogh | 95%
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| Serial killer who stalked the streets of Whitechapel, London | Jack the Ripper | 92%
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| Tower built for the World's Fair which became the tallest man-made structure in history | Eiffel Tower | 85%
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| Author who wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | Mark Twain | 77%
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| What Karl Benz invented | Automobile | 76%
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| Paris cabaret that was famous for the can-can dance | Moulin Rouge | 70%
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| City where the first steel-frame skyscraper was built | Chicago | 66%
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| The last country in the Americas to abolish slavery | Brazil | 65%
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| What Friedrich Nietzsche said was "dead" | God | 65%
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| Huge English dictionary that was first published after a multi-decade effort | Oxford English Dictionary | 65%
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| U.S. state (then a territory) in which you could find the city of Tombstone | Arizona | 60%
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| Character who made his first appearance in the story "A Study in Scarlet" | Sherlock Holmes | 59%
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| Indonesian volcano that erupted with an explosion so loud it was heard 4800 km away | Krakatoa | 58%
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| Country in which "bushranger" Ned Kelly meet his end | Australia | 56%
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| City found at the Eastern terminus of the Orient Express | Constantinople | 48%
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| "Nerve tonic" that was created by John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia | Coca Cola | 47%
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| What Western showman William Cody was better known as | Buffalo Bill | 46%
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| Notorious outlaw who was shot in the back by the coward Robert Ford | Jesse James | 45%
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| U.S. state (then a territory) which was opened up to a land rush | Oklahoma | 43%
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| Apache leader who finally surrendered after 30 years of fighting | Geronimo | 41%
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| Liberal British Prime Minister who served two of his four terms | William Gladstone | 18%
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