| Clue | Valid Answers | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The four elements as defined by Aristotle | Fire | Air | Water | Earth | 94%
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| Countries the U.S. declared war on in the 1800s | United Kingdom | Mexico | Spain | 91%
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| Four great inventions of ancient China | Compass | Gunpowder | Papermaking | Printing | 83%
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| Houses of English monarchs | Normandy | Blois | Anjou | Plantagenet | Lancaster | York | Tudor | Stuart | Hanover | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Windsor | 80%
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| Islands where Napoleon lived | Corsica | Elba | Saint Helena | 73%
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| Modern-day countries in the New World visited by Columbus on his first voyage | Bahamas | Cuba | Haiti | Dominican Republic | 72%
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| Brontë sisters | Anne | Emily | Charlotte | 70%
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| One of the first five Roman emperors other than Augustus | Tiberius | Caligula | Claudius | Nero | 69%
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| Person who was Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in the 1930s | Mohandas Gandhi | Pierre Laval | Hugh Johnson | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Haile Selassie | Wallis Simpson | Soong May-ling | Chiang Kai-shek | Adolf Hitler | Joseph Stalin | 64%
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| Leo Tolstoy novels | War and Peace | Anna Karenina | Resurrection | 64%
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| Modern-day capitals that were, at one time, the capital of an Islamic caliphate | Baghdad | Cairo | Damascus | 60%
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| Title of nobility carried by peers in the British honours system | Duke | Marquess | Earl | Viscount | Baron | 57%
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| Barbarian tribes who sacked Rome | Gauls | Visigoths | Vandals | Ostrogoths | 54%
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| Five most-mentioned characters in the Iliad | Hector | Achilles | Zeus | Ajax | Agamemnon | 50%
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| Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England (traditional reckoning) | East Anglia | Essex | Kent | Mercia | Northumbria | Sussex | Wessex | 44%
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| "Great" ancient capitals of China (other than Beijing) | Nanjing | Luoyang | Xi'an | 42%
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| Cities in the Hanseatic League | Lübeck | Hamburg | Gdańsk | Kaliningrad | Tallinn | + 36 others | 36%
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| Prime Minister of Israel prior to the year 1990 | David Ben-Gurion | Moshe Sharett | Levi Eshkol | Golda Meir | Yitzhak Rabin | Menachem Begin | Yitzhak Shamir | Shimon Peres | 33%
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| Female authors pen-named "George" | George {Eliot} | George {Sand} | 32%
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| Ports where the Barbary Pirates were based | Algiers | Rabat | Salé | Tripoli | Tunis | 30%
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