| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. state once an independent country | Texas | 95%
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| Month of the year when Caesar met his end | March | 88%
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| Country formed by the union of Castille and Aragon | Spain | 87%
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| Singer whose pulsating pelvis titillated audiences of the 1950s | Elvis | 85%
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| Person, such as a Mongolian or Bedouin, who doesn't live in a fixed location | Nomad | 84%
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| Term for a Soviet prison camp | Gulag | 82%
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| Country founded after a successful slave revolt | Haiti | 79%
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| Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War | Iliad | 78%
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| Author who envisioned 9 circles of hell | Dante | 75%
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| What Edmund Halley observed in 1682 | Comet | 74%
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| Musical genre popular in the 1970s | Disco | 69%
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| Writer of many fables including "The Tortoise and the Hare" | Aesop | 66%
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| Inventor of dynamite | Nobel | 65%
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| With Clark and Sacagawea, he explored the Louisiana Purchase | Lewis | 62%
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| Christian term for a person who practiced polytheist religions | Pagan | 61%
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| Marilyn Monroe's real first name | Norma | 59%
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| Musical style popular in the big band era | Swing | 59%
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| Open air gathering place in ancient Greece; some people have a "phobia" of them | Agora | 53%
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| Person employed to take care of horses | Groom | 45%
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| Nerve gas employed in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack | Sarin | 45%
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| Mesoamerican society that made "colossal head" statues | Olmec | 30%
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