| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What was the Japanese city that was the target of the first atomic bomb in 1945 | Hiroshima | 93%
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| What was the ancient road system connecting China to the Mediterranean | Silk Road | 87%
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| The war fought between Britain and China over trade imbalances and the illegal drug market in the 19th century | Opium | 85%
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| Which 20th-century American gangster is remembered for his infamous "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"? | Al Capone | 77%
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| The Chinese philosopher whose teachings became the foundation of a major religion during the 5th century BCE | Confucius | 67%
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| The Russian empress who corresponded with Voltaire and sought to modernize Russia in the 18th century | CatherineTheGreat | 64%
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| Who was the British monarch during the American Revolutionary War? | King George III | 61%
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| What is the name of the first permanent English colony in America, founded in 1607? | Jamestown | 54%
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| The ancient Mesopotamian king who created one of the earliest known legal codes around 1754 BCE | Hammurabi | 44%
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| The Greek historian known as the "Father of History," who wrote about the Greco-Persian Wars | Herodotus | 38%
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| African ruler of Mali, whose wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 astonished the Islamic world | MansaMusa | 38%
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| The Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in 410 CE | Visigoths | 34%
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| The battle of __________ in 480 BCE where 300 Spartans and their allies fought to delay the Persian army led by Xerxes I | Thermopylae | 30%
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| Which early Christian theologian, best known for his work "Confessions," was a bishop in North Africa and is considered one of the most influential Church Fathers? | Augustine of Hippo | 28%
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| Who was the Athenian statesman who led Athens during its "Golden Age" and initiated the construction of the Parthenon | Pericles | 28%
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| The Treaty of ________, signed in 1494, divided the New World between Spain and Portugal | Tordesillas | 25%
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| The battle in 218 BCE where Hannibal ambushed and annihilated a Roman army by using a double envelopment strategy | Cannae | 24%
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| Which Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian who reconquered large parts of the Western Roman Empire | Belisarius | 15%
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| What was the ancient kingdom located in modern-day Sudan, known for its pyramids and rivalry with Egypt | Kush | 15%
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| Which mountain in Greece, known as the "holy mountain," has been home to an autonomous monastic community since the 10th century? | Mount Athos | 14%
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