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Question	Answer	% Correct
What number is sometimes said to have been "invented" in India sometime before 1000 AD?	Zero	83%
What was the largest contiguous empire of all time?	The Mongol Empire	81%
To what island did Chiang Kai-shek flee in 1949?	Taiwan	76%
In what city did Cleopatra meet her end in 30 BC?	Alexandria	72%
In the 1860s, what small country lost up to 90% of its adult male population fighting a war against the combined forces of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay?	Paraguay	68%
What African country was home to the "pieds-noirs", French settlers who once formed more than 10% of the population?	Algeria	61%
What province didn't become part of Canada until 1949?	Newfoundland and Labrador	57%
What island chain was conquered by Kamehameha the Great in the late 1700s?	Hawaii	54%
What Greek goddess is said to have been born out of sea foam on the island of Cyprus?	Aphrodite	52%
What scientist led the Royal Mint from 1699–1727?	Isaac Newton	51%
Who was the son of Erik the Red?	Leif Erikson	51%
Whose marriage to Isabella in 1469 united the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon?	Ferdinand	48%
What was the last imperial dynasty of Russia, ruling from 1613–1917?	Romanov	48%
What is the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi best known for?	His legal code	46%
In the book "Heart of Darkness", what product did Kurtz seek to export out of Africa?	Ivory	40%
What U.S. citizen ruled Japan as a de-facto dictator from 1945–1951?	Douglas MacArthur	38%
What king did William the Conqueror defeat at the Battle of Hastings?	Harold Godwinson	38%
What language's first written records date to about 1250 BC when it was inscribed on bones and turtle shells as part of divination rituals?	Chinese	34%
What structure gets its modern name from the humongous bronze statue of Nero which once stood outside?	Colosseum	30%
Who was the last major Aztec emperor?	Moctezuma II	30%

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