| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The Titanic sank on its first voyage across the Atlantic | True | 92%
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| Most of French territory was, at one time, part of the Roman Empire | True | 87%
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| Until the 19th century, Italian opera companies employed "castrati" - men who had been castrated as children so that they would have high voices | True | 86%
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| There is evidence that humans hunted woolly mammoths | True | 83%
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| Marie Curie discovered penicillin | False | 80%
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| The Mongols conquered Japan | False | 79%
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| George Washington was deaf | False | 79%
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| Only four people were killed at the Tiananmen Square massacre | False | 78%
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| There was a time in the Middle Ages when the Popes lived in France, not Rome | True | 78%
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| "The Three Musketeers" is an example of the swashbuckler genre of literature | True | 74%
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| India has never been involved in a war since becoming independent in 1947 | False | 69%
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| Guy Fawkes was a Protestant activist | False | 67%
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| King Arthur is buried at Westminster Abbey | False | 66%
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| We don't know whether Homer really existed | True | 62%
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| The legend of Hercules was well-known in ancient Rome | True | 54%
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| The year 1 B.C. is followed by 0 A.D. | False | 52%
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