| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Chinese city where student-led demonstrations were violently suppressed by military force | Beijing | 97%
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| C | Ancient city-state destroyed by Rome in the Punic Wars | Carthage | 92%
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| J | Holy city whose conquest was the goal of the mostly unsuccessful Crusades | Jerusalem | 92%
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| W | City where Napoleon faced his final defeat | Waterloo | 87%
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| H | English city where William the Conqueror decisively defeated Anglo-Saxon forces | Hastings | 75%
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| Q | South American city which was liberated from Spanish forces in the Battle of Pichincha | Quito | 75%
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| X | Chinese city where Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his subordinates, causing a political crisis that ended with Chiang's agreement to ally with the Communists against Japan | Xi'an | 71%
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| M | African city where two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in a botched raid operation | Mogadishu | 69%
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| L | American city where a weather balloon was mistaken for an attacking Japanese aircraft, prompting an hour-long anti-aircraft artillery barrage; 3 people were killed in car crashes and 2 suffered fatal heart attacks in the ensuing chaos | Los Angeles | 66%
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| V | French site of the longest battle of WWI, which saw over 700,000 casualties | Verdun | 66%
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| G | Spanish city whose devastation by aerial bombing in the Spanish Civil War is depicted in a Picasso painting | Guernica | 63%
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| S | City where Salvador Allende was violently deposed in a CIA-backed coup | Santiago | 63%
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| A | Where English longbowmen unexpectedly defeated a larger French force, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War | Agincourt | 59%
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| T | Aztec capital besieged and captured by Hernan Cortés | Tenochtitlan | 56%
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| F | Iraqi city and Ba'ath stronghold besieged by an American-led coalition and devastated by intense urban warfare | Fallujah | 51%
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| Y | Where British general Cornwallis surrendered to American troops, ending the American Revolution | Yorktown | 48%
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| K | Soviet site of the largest tank battle in history | Kursk | 44%
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| U | Texas town where 21 were killed in a school shooting | Uvalde | 41%
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| R | Pakistani city where Muslim mobs raped and killed thousands of Hindus and Sikhs months before the partition of India | Rawalpindi | 37%
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| E | Ugandan city where Israeli forces conducted a raid to rescue nearly a hundred Jewish hostages from an airport | Entebbe | 34%
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| P | The Mexican victory over the Second French Empire in this city is celebrated every 5th of May | Puebla | 33%
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| N | Site of the last major battle of the War of 1812, which was fought after the war had formally ended and resulted in a major British defeat | New Orleans | 32%
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| Z | Ukrainian city where Russian troops attacked and set fire to a nuclear power plant in 2022 | Zaporizhzhia | 30%
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| D | Vietnamese city where the Việt Minh besieged and defeated French forces, eventually leading to France's withdrawal from Indochina | Điện Biên Phủ | 25%
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| I | Ancient Anatolian town where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III, marking the beginning of the fall of the Achaemenid Empire | Issus | 10%
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| O | Polish village with a fortress where Russian soldiers, resembling zombies due to the effects of German gas attacks, routed the advancing Germans in the so-called "Attack of the Dead Men" in WWI | Osowiec-Twierdza | 6%
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