| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| To what country were 165,000 British convicts "transported" from 1787–1867? | Australia | 91%
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| What country was formerly known as Siam? | Thailand | 82%
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| What country's civil war was depicted in Picasso's painting "Guernica"? | Spain | 81%
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| What secret society traces its origins to Medieval stone workers? | Freemasons | 73%
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| What 1969 music festival in upstate New York is sometimes considered to be the zenith of the hippie movement? | Woodstock | 73%
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| What famous train ran once between Paris and Istanbul? | The {Orient} Express | 71%
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| What was the spontaneous WWI ceasefire that happened in late 1914? | {Christmas} Truce | 66%
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| What Russian empress notoriously had affairs with many different men? | Catherine the Great | 65%
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| What is the most popular sport that was invented in Scotland? | Golf | 59%
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| What was the nickname of Louis XIV? | The {Sun} King | 58%
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| What unit of British currency was equal to 1/20th of a pound? | Shilling | 56%
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| What Jewish banking family rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become unimaginably wealthy? | Rothschild | 55%
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| What sport would an ancient Roman watch at a hippodrome or circus? | Chariot racing | 54%
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| Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces that invaded Normandy in 1944? | Dwight Eisenhower | 53%
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| What term is given to the British rule of India from 1858–1947? | British {Raj} | 51%
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| Who did Friedrich Engels famously work with? | Karl Marx | 50%
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| What Puritanical English ruler is often blamed for banning Christmas? | Oliver Cromwell | 40%
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| Who sent a telegram from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903? | Orville Wright | 39%
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| What religious order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola to reform the Catholic church? | Jesuits | 33%
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| What Union general adopted a "scorched Earth" policy on his march to the sea through the American south? | William Tecumseh Sherman | 31%
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