| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| City that had a "tea party" in 1773 | Boston | 97%
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| England's oldest university | Oxford | 93%
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| Jews in this city's ghetto revolted in 1943 | Warsaw | 82%
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| Napoleon lost nearly 90% of his army when he invaded this country | Russia | 80%
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| City where Kennedy was assassinated | Dallas | 79%
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| River called "China's sorrow" because of its many disastrous floods | Yellow | 79%
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| Harald Fairhair was supposedly the first king of this country | Norway | 76%
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| Major river of Mesopotamia | Tigris | 73%
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| Predecessor to the calculator that used beads sliding on wires | Abacus | 68%
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| The V2 or Saturn V, for example | Rocket | 63%
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| Beetle that was sacred in ancient Egypt | Scarab | 62%
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| Assistant to a knight | Squire | 61%
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| Place in Greece where one could speak to the oracle | Delphi | 60%
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| Composer of "Flight of the Valkyries" | Wagner | 59%
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| Anatolian city formerly known as Angora | Ankara | 53%
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| Considered to be the father of geometry | Euclid | 51%
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| Greek island home to Odysseus; Namesake of a city in upstate New York | Ithaca | 46%
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| Region of Sudan infamous for war and genocide since 2003 | Darfur | 44%
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| Legendary world in Norse mythology where Valhalla can be found | Asgard | 41%
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| Female poet who gave new meaning to the island of Lesbos | Sappho | 40%
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