History General Knowledge #18 - Statistics

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