| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which European people have spoken a non-Indo European language for millenia? | Basques | 100%
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| In 1962, missiles installed on what island nearly led the USA and USSR to war? | Cuba | 100%
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| Which actress starred in the title role in the 1963 movie Cleopatra? | Elizabeth Taylor | 100%
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| Which of these men was a leader of the Protestant Reformation? | John Calvin | 100%
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| Which country handed control of Macau back to China in 1999? | Portugal | 100%
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| What was the name of the first man-made satellite in space? | Sputnik | 100%
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| Which of these US states was once an independent country? | Texas | 100%
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| Who died of a nosebleed on his wedding night? | Attila the Hun | 67%
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| What modern-day country wasn't a part of the Roman Empire? | Ireland | 67%
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| Which of these empires was centered in what is now Mexico? | Olmec | 67%
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| Which island was never settled by native peoples of the Americas? | Bermuda | 33%
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| Which battle marked the decline of Spartan hegemony and the rise of Thebes? | Leuctra | 33%
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| Which historian wrote a history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita? | Livy | 33%
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| Which of these US states was not once an independent country? | Louisiana | 33%
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| The first reliably reported battle in world history was the Battle of…? | Megiddo | 0%
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