| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Language of ancient Rome | Latin | 93%
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| Drug that caused wars between China and Britain | Opium | 91%
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| Job for a poor Victorian child: chimney _____ | Sweep | 86%
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| Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle | Plato | 85%
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| Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The _____ has landed. | Eagle | 84%
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| Main crop of the Aztecs | Maize | 81%
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| Lancaster vs. York: War of the _____ | Roses | 79%
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| Pack animal of the Incas | Llama | 78%
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| Shakespeare play: Taming of the _____ | Shrew | 75%
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| "Remembered" battle of Texas independence | Alamo | 74%
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| Pacific Northwest carving: ____ Pole | Totem | 70%
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| Country which Edward Longshanks conquered around 1280 AD | Wales | 70%
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| "I'm not a crook", he said in 1973 | Nixon | 67%
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| Scimitar, claymore, cutlass | Sword | 65%
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| An assassin in feudal Japan | Ninja | 64%
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| "Don Quixote" is often considered the first example of this type of book | Novel | 64%
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| Musical genre that started in the Southern U.S. | Blues | 62%
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| Country led by Nassar and Sadat | Egypt | 62%
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| J.S. Bach's instrument | Organ | 60%
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| Term for a wall painting. Diego Rivera was famous for them. | Mural | 58%
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| Type of Greek god such as Cronus or Prometheus | Titan | 58%
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| The first general anesthetic | Ether | 52%
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| Leader of an abbey | Abbot | 44%
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| Kansas frontier town | Dodge | 25%
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| Term for a Brit who got rich in India | Nabob | 14%
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| Wife of Muhammad who narrated 2,210 hadiths | Aisha | 13%
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