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