| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Author of "The Communist Manifesto" | Karl Marx | 98%
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII | Axis | 91%
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| Mythical creature sculpted in Giza, Egypt around 2500 B.C. | Great Sphinx | 85%
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| Born in Greece, he conquered Persia,and died in Babylon | Alexander the Great | 83%
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| In the late 1970s, it became the first disease to be completely eradicated | Smallpox | 78%
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| The biggest news story in the UK in 2016 | Brexit | 73%
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| Legendary left-handed guitarist who joined the 27 club when he died in London in 1970 | Jimi Hendrix | 73%
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| Agatha Christie wrote about a murder on this train line connecting Paris and Istanbul | Orient Express | 73%
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| Part of the electromagnetic spectrum discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895 | X-ray | 70%
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| What the Pope did to Henry VIII in 1538 | Excommunicate | 65%
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| The only President of the U.S. whose last name contains an X | Richard Nixon | 59%
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| "No ______ without representation", said the American colonists to King George III | Taxation | 59%
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| The Great Schism of 1054 separated the Roman Catholics from this branch of Christianity | Eastern Orthodox | 57%
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| Formation of spearmen employed by the above | Phalanx | 48%
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| Cruel Roman method of execution used on Spartacus's followers | Crucifixion | 47%
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| Linen was first made from this plant over 4000 years ago in Egypt | Flax | 42%
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| Sport which the Marquess of Queensberry endorsed rules for in 1867 | Boxing | 40%
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| Confederate Civil War song: "The land of cotton / old times there are not forgotten" | Dixie | 37%
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| Tapestry that tells the story of the Norman conquest of England | Bayeux Tapestry | 33%
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| Edison's phonograph recorded sound on a cylinder made of this | Wax | 25%
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