History General Knowledge #10 - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
What notorious leader had a similar style mustache to Charlie Chaplin? Adolf Hitler
96%
What creature was often used for the medical treatment of bloodletting? Leeches
85%
Who was killed in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914? Franz Ferdinand
82%
What composer died while composing a requiem in 1791? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
81%
What type of craft was the Hindenburg? Zeppelin
80%
What plant, imported from the New World, changed the face of Italian cooking? Tomato
72%
What country was known as the CCCP in its own language? USSR
71%
Which English King fought in the Crusades and battled against Saladin? Richard the Lionheart
69%
What facial hair style was made famous by American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside? Sideburns
68%
What modern-day country was at one time personally owned (and abused) by King Leopold of Belgium? D .R. Congo
66%
Who famously wore a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat on a fateful day in 1963? Jackie Kennedy
64%
What group, established after WWI, was a failed predecessor to the United Nations? League of Nations
62%
What city did the Nazis besiege for 872 days but never capture? Leningrad
61%
What African country did Italy invade in 1935? Ethiopia
60%
What Maoist economic program resulted in a famine that killed at least 20 million people? {Great} {Leap} Forward
60%
What was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848? Gold
58%
What industrialist became the world's first dollar billionaire thanks to his monopoly on the U.S. oil industry? John D. Rockefeller
54%
What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle? Bavaria
53%
What was the de-facto state religion of the Achaemenid Persian empire?
hint: starts with Z
Zoroastrianism
41%
What fur-trading company, founded in 1670, once owned about 1/3rd of Canada's land? Hudson's Bay Company
29%
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