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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
Which year is often known as the "Year of Revolutions"?	?	1848	100%
What year did Hitler assume power?	?	1933	100%
What year was Jesus crucified?	?	30 or 35 CE	100%
Which country was Pope Francis born in?	1936	Argentina	100%
Which profession did Adolf Hitler want to be enter before entering politics?	None	Art	100%
Which infamous camp is now placed in the Polish city of Oświęcim?	None	Auschwitz	100%
Which battle during the Napoleonic Wars ensured British naval supremacy?	1805	Battle of {Trafalgar}	100%
Whose supporters falsely claimed that he "made the trains run on time"?	1883-1945	Benito Mussolini	100%
Thomas Sankara was a Marxist President who led what African nation?	1983-1987	Burkina Faso	100%
What territory was occupied and annexed by Russia, despite international backlash?	2014	Crimea	100%
Which general said he would "return again" to the Philippines, later landing on the island of Leyte?	1944	Douglas MacArthur	100%
Moai are found on what island?	None	Easter Island	100%
Which monarch married Wallis Simpson in 1937?	1937	Edward VIII	100%
Wan Hu is in legends for being the first "astronaut" by strapping what Chinese invention onto a chair?	Unknown	Fireworks	100%
What heraldic symbol is used for the House of Bourbon?	None	Fleur-de-Lis	100%
Who said the quote “…a day that will live in infamy…” in 1941?	1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt	100%
What city had a pyramid built for a burial site for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu?	3200 BCE	Giza	100%
What was the largest Portuguese colony on the Indian subcontinent?	1510-1961	Goa	100%
Which area did the Israeli army capture from Syria during the Six-Day War?	1967	{Golan} Heights	100%
Which mystic is known for befriending Tsar Nicholas II?	1869-1916	Grigori Rasputin	100%
Which royal family was known for having protruding chins, most likely caused by incest?	None	Habsburg	100%
Which country led a slave revolution, led by Toussaint Louverture?	1791-1804	Haiti	100%
Who is often attributed to writing the Iliad and the Odyssey?	8th Century BCE-?	Homer	100%
"George Bush doesn't care about black people" proclaimed Kanye West on a telethon raising money for what hurricane?	2005	Hurricane {Katrina}	100%
In Rwanda, which ethnic group committed genocide?	1994	Hutu	100%
The movie "Cool Runnings" is based on which country's Olympic bobsledding team, who most famously performed at the 1988 Olympics?	1988	Jamaica	100%
Who invented the printing press?	1393-1468	Johannes Gutenberg	100%
In which city was the "Rumble in The Jungle" held?	1974	Kinshasa	100%
What organization is seen as the predecessor to the United Nations?	1920-1946	League of Nations	100%
Who was diagnosed fully deaf at 44, but still composed music?	1814-1815?	Ludwig van Beethoven	100%
Which king from Mali is falsely known as the "richest person ever"?	None	Mansa Musa	100%
Who led the Protestant Reformation?	16th Century	Martin Luther	100%
Which mountain erupted, killing over 1,500 people in the city of Pompeii?	79	Mount Vesuvius	100%
Which Venezuelan President was captured in Caracas by American forces in 2026?	2026	Nicolás Maduro	100%
The city of Blumenau in Brazil holds one of the largest of what festival globally, attributed to German immigration?	None	Oktoberfest	100%
Which sport was used to increase American-Chinese relations?	1971-1972	{Ping}-{Pong} Diplomacy	100%
Which three letter word ending in J refers to the period of British rule in India and Pakistan?	1858-1947	Raj	100%
Who was the main Confederate general?	None	Robert E. Lee	100%
What city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?	1914	Sarajevo	100%
The Khyber Pass is an important pass in Pakistan for what road?	None	Silk Road	100%
Which military and political leader is known as "El Libertador"?	1783-1830	Simón Bolívar	100%
What spacecraft is launched, becoming the first satellite in space?	1957	Sputnik	100%
What statue was made in 1876, soon to be gifted to America?	1876	Statue of Liberty	100%
Which sherpa, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest?	1953	Tenzing Norgay	100%
Which nation would start the Arab Spring following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi?	2011	Tunisia	100%
What was the name for the communist organization in South Vietnam?	None	Viet Cong	100%
What American political party had prominent members like William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore?	1833-1854	Whigs	100%
Who called Mahatma Gandhi a "seditious Middle Temple lawyer" in 1931?	1874-1965	Winston Churchill	100%
Which "stone" had Ancient Egyptian in Hieroglyphic and Demotic script, and Ancient Greek?	196 BCE	{Rosetta} Stone	89%
Opponents to the American purchase of what land nicknamed it "Seward’s Folly"?	1867	Alaska	88%
What city was Christopher Columbus born in?	1451	Genoa	86%
Which British PM is known as the “Iron Lady”?	1925-2013	Margaret Thatcher	86%
"Fat Man" dropped on which city, killing 60,000-80,000 people?	1945	Nagasaki	86%
Who accidentally discovered penicillin?	1928	Alexander Fleming	83%
What island chain did Charles Darwin visit, later inspiring his theory of evolution by natural selection?	1835	Galápagos Islands	83%
Which country colonized Equatorial Guinea?	None	Spain	83%
What battle between Athens (and Plataea) and the Achaemenid Empire inspired a foot-race?	490 BCE	Battle of {Marathon}	80%
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?	1343-1400	Geoffrey Chaucer	80%
"The Troubles" were a conflict fought on what island?	Late 1960s-1998	Ireland	80%
Which French king was nicknamed the "Sun King"?	1638-1715	Louis XIV	80%
Who is falsely attributed to the quote "Let them eat cake"?	1755-1793	Marie Antoinette	80%
In what city did athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fist during a medal ceremony at the Olympics?	1968	Mexico City	80%
What Japanese company was originally founded as a card company?	1889	Nintendo	80%
Which university is well known for being founded almost 400 years before the Aztec Empire was made?	1096	Oxford University	80%
Who painted "Guernica", a painting that depicted a bombing during the Spanish Civil War?	1937	Pablo Picasso	80%
Guglielmo Marconi is often accredited with inventing what?	1895	Radio	80%
What was Greece's pre-Euro currency?	1832-2001	Drachma	75%
Who said "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" in Ujiji, Tanzania?	1871	Henry Morton Stanley	75%
Which ship had a mutiny occur, led by Fletcher Christian?	1789	HMS {Bounty}	75%
The term “Wardrobe Malfunction” was coined after Justin Timberlake accidentally showed the breast of which singer?	2004	Janet Jackson	75%
Which African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?	1913-1980	Jesse Owens	75%
Which Polish Pope was shot in St. Peters Square in 1981?	1981	John Paul II	75%
In what city was rapper Tupac Shakur shot and killed?	1996	Las Vegas	75%
Which Scottish town did Pan Am Flight 103 crash into after it was bombed?	1988	Lockerbie	75%
Abu Nidal militants hijacked EgyptAir Flight 648, diverting the Athens-Cairo flight to what island?	1985	Malta	75%
Who is known as the Father of Modern Turkey?	1881-1938	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	75%
Which nation was the first to allow same-sex marriage?	2001	Netherlands	75%
What city was founded by Greeks in 350 BCE, naming it after the Goddess of Victory after defeating the local Ligurian tribes?	350 BCE	Nice	75%
Operation Weserübung caused Germany to declare war on Denmark and what other country?	1940	Norway	75%
Utah Beach and what other beach did the Americans land on D-Day?	1944	{Omaha} Beach	75%
Which Roman oversaw Jesus' trial?	33	Pontius Pilate	75%
What island was Napoleon exiled to, later dying there?	None	St. Helena	75%
The shortest war in history took 38 minutes between the United Kingdom and what country?	1896	Zanzibar	75%
Which war against an animal did the Australians "lose"?	1932	{Emu} War	71%
March 15th is known by what name, marked by the assassination of Julius Caesar?	44 BCE	Ides of March	71%
What German anti-war song was created by the band Nena?	1983	99 Luftballons	67%
In what country did the Buddhas of Bamiyan stand, before being destroyed in 2001?	2001	Afghanistan	67%
What monument, built by the Khmer Empire, is the largest religious structure in the world?	None	Angkor Wat	67%
What was the name of racial segregation in South Africa?	1948-early 90s	Apartheid	67%
Who yelled "Eureka!" after discovering the principle of displacement?	287-212 BCE	Archimedes	67%
In which city were the "Peaky Blinders" street gang based in?	1880s-1920s	Birmingham	67%
Which word comes before the words “Kansas” and “Sumner”?	None	{Bleeding} Kansas and {Bleeding} Sumner	67%
The "War of the Pacific" ended with the deprivation of what country's coastline?	1879-1883	Bolivia	67%
What was the capital to West Germany?	None	Bonn	67%
What place did the Romans say "delenda est"?	None	Carthage	67%
Which "great" king was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" in 800 AD?	800 CE	Charlemagne	67%
In Greek mythology, who ate each of his children as they were born?	None	Cronus	67%
Who is the "Desert Fox" and fought in El Alamein?	1891-1944	Erwin Rommel	67%
What is the most spoken artificially made language?	1887-present	Esperanto	67%
A ship collision led to an explosion that killed 1,782 in what city's harbor?	1917	Halifax	67%
What colony owned the Kowloon Walled City, accredited to being the most densely populated place in history?	1898?-1994	Hong Kong	67%
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the Munich Massacre, the killing of 11 on which Olympic Team?	1972	Israel	67%
Which country practiced an isolationist government for over 250 years?	1603-1868	Japan	67%
Who was the founder of the Yuan Dynasty?	1215-1294	Kublai Khan	67%
According to popular legend, what country sent 80 troops into the Austro-Prussian war, only for 81 to return?	1886	Liechtenstein	67%
The "Toledo War" was an American boundary dispute in between Ohio and which other state?	1835-1836	Michigan	67%
What language was commonly used for American military code talking during WW2?	None	Navajo	67%
Which nation was the first to grant women the right to vote?	1893	New Zealand	67%
What U.S. state merged with the "Indian Territory"?	None	Oklahoma	67%
On which hill did Romulus and Remus found Rome?	753 BCE	Palatine Hill	67%
Southern Mexico : Emiliano Zapata :: Northern Mexico : Which revolutionary?	1878-1923	Pancho Villa	67%
Who is famous for saying “Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am)?	1596-1650	René Descartes	67%
Who is the longest ever serving Japanese PM, someone who was also assassinated in 2022?	1954-2022	Shinzo Abe	67%
The first reported economic bubble in history is attributed to mania in the Netherlands over what plant?	1634-1637	Tulips	67%
What red fabric was used to describe the peaceful democratization of Czechoslovakia?	1989	{Velvet} Revolution	67%
What telegram was sent to Mexico during WW1, requesting an entry into the war?	1917	{Zimmerman} Telegram	67%
What country's Sudetenland was taken in the Munich Conference?	1938	Czechoslovakia	63%
What year did the vuvuzela become internationally famous?	?	2010	60%
Who declared Rome as an empire?	27 BCE	Augustus	60%
Which city did 7 popes live in for 70 years?	1309-77	Avignon	60%
In 2020, ammonium nitrate blew up the port and killed 218 in what city?	2020	Beirut	60%
Which song (translated to English as “Goodbye Beautiful”) was used by Italian partisans during WW2?	None	Bella Ciao	60%
The Outremer were formed as a result of which war?	1096-1099	First Crusade	60%
Who was often called "the Hitler of Africa"?	1928-2003	Idi Amin	60%
Who was the first post-Soviet leader of Poland?	1943-present	Lech Wałęsa	60%
The Alhambra Decree expulsed Sephardic Jews in what country?	1492	Spain	60%
What STD spread from the New World to the Old World?	None	Syphilis	60%
Which country was formerly under Ba'athist dictator Bashar-al-Assad?	2000-2024	Syria	60%
What political term is used for an unstable country with its economy dependent on natural resources, named after fruit-dependent nations in Central America?	None	Banana Republic	57%
According to the Odyssey, what New York city was named after the home of Odysseus?	None	Ithaca	57%
Which city was formerly known as "Batavia"?	1619-1942	Jakarta	57%
Which family would inherit the British throne after the War of the Roses?	None	Tudor	57%
Which city did Oscar Niemeyer help design, especially the city's civic buildings?	1960	Brasília	56%
US politician William Jennings Bryan said that mankind cannot be crucified upon a cross of what metal?	1896	Gold	56%
What year did Abraham Lincoln assume office?	?	1861	50%
What is widely accepted as the most famous Soviet gun?	None	AK-47	50%
Who is often called the "Father of Modern Anatomy"?	1514-1564	Andreas Vesalius	50%
Which future president won the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812?	1815	Andrew Jackson	50%
The War of the Golden Stool (Yaa Asantewaa War) was fought between the United Kingdom and what Akan kingdom?	1900	{Ashanti} Empire	50%
Which country was formerly known as "British Honduras"?	1783-1981	Belize	50%
What is the name of the day where Russian Imperial soldiers shot at followers of Father Gapon?	1905	Bloody Sunday	50%
Partygate was a political scandal involving which world leader, who held parties against public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic?	1964-present	Boris Johnson	50%
Which capital city was founded in 1960, and today has over 4 million people?	1960	Brasília	50%
What third party would Theodore Roosevelt form?	1912-1920	{Bull Moose} Party	50%
What famous French general has an airport named after him?	None	Charles de Gaulle	50%
In 2019, far-right terrorist Brenton Tarrant opened fire into a mosque and an Islamic Center in which city, killing 51?	2019	Christchurch	50%
Which Australian city was bombed by the Japanese Airforce in WW2?	1942	Darwin	50%
Which branch of Christianity claims to have the Ark of the Covenant?	None	Ethiopian Orthodox Church	50%
Which republic became the Ligurian Republic after becoming a French client state?	None	Genoa	50%
Jim Jones and followers of his cult committed a mass-suicide in the town of Jonestown in what country?	1978	Guyana	50%
The Three Kingdoms period occurred after the collapse of what dynasty?	25-220 CE	{Han} Dynasty	50%
In what region of Germany did an English dynasty come from, ruling from 1714-1901?	1714-1901	Hanover	50%
Which Indian PM was assassinated by their own Sikh body guards?	1984	Indira Gandhi	50%
Which city was formerly known as Smyrna?	None	Izmir	50%
Who's death ended the musical Baroque period?	1750	Johann Sebastian Bach	50%
On what peninsula did the Goryeo Dynasty reign?	918-1392	Korea	50%
Which Belgian king personally owned the Congo Free State?	1835-1909	Leopold II	50%
Ninoy Aquino, the largest opponent of Ferdinand Marcos, would be assassinated in what city's airport (that would later be named after him)?	1932-1983	Manila	50%
What sticky substance flooded the city of Boston, killing 21?	1919	Molasses	50%
Maoists and Government forces fought in what country's civil war in the early 2000s?	1996-2006	Nepal	50%
The devshirme system forcibly recruited Balkan Christians to become soldiers or bureaucrats for what empire?	14th-17th Century	Ottoman Empire	50%
In what city did Princess Diana die?	1997	Paris	50%
What monument was severely damaged by an explosion in 1687?	1687	Parthenon	50%
The term "defenestration" is closely linked to which city, where it occurred thrice?	1419, 1483, 1618	Prague	50%
In Scandinavian languages, what is a term for a politician who is traitorous, named after the primary Norwegian Nazi collaborator?	None	Quisling	50%
Which author wrote the "White Man's Burden"?	1865-1936	Rudyard Kipling	50%
In 2025, Italy launched a probe on sniper tourism. "Sniper tourists" paid money for Serb soldiers to kill civilians in which city?	1992-1996	Sarajevo	50%
What was the only nation that was not colonized in Southeast Asia?	None	Siam	50%
Which world religion was founded by Guru Nanak?	None	Sikhism	50%
Which nation was led by dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow?	2006-2022	Turkmenistan	50%
What American state had an independent nation also known as "the Republic of the Green Mountains"?	1777-1791	Vermont	50%
What music festival was advertised as "3 Days of Peace & Music"?	1969	Woodstock	50%
Which Axis power was the only one to gain land after WW2?	1945	Bulgaria	43%
Which revolutionary rode a motorcycle across most of South America?	1950, 1951	Che Guevara	43%
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at Promontory in what US state?	1869	Utah	43%
Which rapper was shot 9 times in 2000, yet survived?	2000	50 Cent	40%
The November 2015 Paris Attacks included a mass shooting and hostage taking in what theater, where a concert was being held?	2015	{Bataclan} Theater	40%
Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday that commemorates Mexico's defeat of which country at the Battle of Puebla?	1862	France	40%
Who attempted to blow up the English Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot"?	1605	Guy Fawkes	40%
A famous photograph depicted 57 jazz musicians having "A Great Day" in what neighborhood?	1958	Harlem	40%
Which gay man prohibited anti-gay discrimination in San Francisco, before being assassinated?	1930-1978	Harvey Milk	40%
Which satirist wrote "The Modest Proposal", that Irish people should eat their children or sell them for food during the Irish Potato Famine?	1667-1745	Johnathan Swift	40%
Which country was formerly under the name of Basutoland?	None	Lesotho	40%
The "Haka" is a variety of ceremonial dance from what people?	None	Māori	40%
What did the Roman Empire call the Mediterranean Sea, literally "our sea"?	None	Mare Nostrum	40%
Which singer ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on SNL in 1992?	1966-2023	Sinéad O'Connor	40%
What will World War IV be fought with, according to Einstein?	None	Sticks and Stones	40%
What was the name of the colony that Leif Erikson established in North America, half a millennium before Christopher Columbus?	1021	Vinland	40%
Which leader is famous for winning the Battle of Thermopylae?	518 BCE-465 BCE	Xerxes I	40%
Which war is sometimes called "The Forgotten War"?	1950-1952	Korean War	38%
Which English politician was known as "Old Ironsides"?	1599-1658	Oliver Cromwell	38%
What food was renamed to “Liberty Cabbage” in the United States during WW1?	1914-1918	Sauerkraut	38%
What year did Constantinople fall to the Ottomans?	?	1453	33%
Which battle during WW1 was the longest lasting?	1916	Battle of {Verdun}	33%
Where did Alan Turing work during WW2?	None	Bletchley Park	33%
Who is the Hindu God of creation?	None	Brahma	33%
Who is at the top of the Indian caste system?	None	Brahmins	33%
What confederation was a German client state for Napoleon?	1806-13	Confederation of the {Rhine}	33%
What was the capital of the Inca Empire, which spanned much of the Andes?	None	Cusco	33%
Which Scottish philosopher was an empiricist, stating that reason is "the slave of the passions"?	1711-1776	David Hume	33%
Who helped Spain conquer the Inca Empire?	1478-1541	Francisco Pizarro	33%
Which Biblical figure wore the "coat of many colors"?	None	Joseph	33%
Who is the first European to visit America?	11th Century	Leif Erikson	33%
What Mexican criminal syndicates' name literally means "The Zs" in Spanish?	1999-present	Los Zetas	33%
Which country was first to recognize the United States after America's independence?	1777	Morocco	33%
"Gen Z protests" in what Asian nation ended in the burning of their parliament?	2025	Nepal	33%
In what country would you find a "Sandanista"?	None	Nicaragua	33%
What organization declared an oil embargo against supporters of Israel in response to the Yom Kippur war?	1973	OAPEC	33%
In what city did Timothy McVeigh explode a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building as an act of terrorism?	1995	Oklahoma City	33%
What was the name of the operation where Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union?	1941	Operation {Barbarossa}	33%
In what kingdom would you most likely find a "winged hussar"?	1569-1795	Poland-Lithuania	33%
Which president/prime minister led Zimbabwe from 1980-2017?	1924-2019	Robert Mugabe	33%
“The Mad Baron” was which person, who after fleeing to Mongolia during the Russian Revolution, attempted to create a Mongolian theocratic monarchy with him as the "God of War"?	1886-1921	Roman von Ungern-Sternberg	33%
Ivan the Terrible was a part of what Russian dynasty?	None	Rurik	33%
Which 5-letter city had a march for Civil Rights, led by Martin Luther King?	1965	Selma	33%
What was the only communist state in the Middle East?	1967-1990	South Yemen	33%
Which Chinese dynasty reigned from 618–907?	618–907	{Tang} Dynasty	33%
Which North African city was formerly an international zone?	1925-40 &1945-56	Tangier	33%
What will the revolution not be?	None	Televised	33%
Which socialist song starts with “Debout, les damnés de la terre”?	None	The Internationale	33%
Who is known as the "Oracle of Omaha"?	1930-present	Warren Buffet	33%
Which 1935 crisis resulted in Italy's departure from the League of Nations?	1935	{Abyssinia} Crisis	29%
During WW2, which forest was labeled as "impenetrable" by the French, which was later penetrated through by the Germans?	1940	Ardennes	29%
In Rastafarianism, which king is considered a divine being?	None	Haile Selassie	29%
Which painter painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring?"	1665	Johannes Vermeer	29%
Which country used to start with the prefix "Trans", until stripping it away at independence?	1946	Jordan	29%
In which Indian state would you most likely find Saint Thomas Christians?	None	Kerala	29%
Which leader once had the slogan of "Let a hundred flowers bloom"?	1893-1976	Mao Zedong	29%
Who personifies the French Revolution and the French Republic?	None	Marianne	29%
Thirty million people would watch Geraldo Rivera open which mafioso's vault on live TV, only turning out to be empty?	1986	Al Capone	25%
Who wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"?	1835-1919	Andrew Carnegie	25%
Which city's Roman name was "Aquae Sulis"?	None	Bath	25%
Which battle resulted in French victory and curtailed Umayyad spread into Western Europe?	732	Battle of {Tours}	25%
The "Anglophone Crisis" is an armed conflict between English-speaking Ambazonian separatists and the French-speaking government in what country?	2017-present	Cameroon	25%
In what city were the Latin Kings gang established?	1954	Chicago	25%
Who was the last king of the Byzantine Empire?	1404-1453	Constantine XI Palaiologos	25%
Which country had kings named Farouk and Fuad?	None	Egypt	25%
Which city is responsible for bringing the Black Plague to Europe, due to the sieging Mongols throwing corpses over the city walls?	1347	Feodosia	25%
Who is the "Father of Scientific Management"?	1856-1915	Frederick Taylor	25%
What company acquired Prince Rupert’s Land in Canada for beaver fur?	1670-present	Hudson’s Bay Company	25%
The Hotel Yamato incident took form of youths of what nation's independence movement, ripping the blue off the hoisted Dutch flag?	1945	Indonesia	25%
Which American Revolutionary War figure is considered "The Father of the Continental Navy"?	None	John Paul Jones	25%
What "sweet" kingdom reigned over the island of Sri Lanka from 1469–1815?	1469-1815	Kingdom of {Kandy}	25%
Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers fly their first plane?	None	Kitty Hawk	25%
Kim Jong-Nam was assassinated using VX nerve agent in what city's international airport?	2017	Kuala Lumpur	25%
Which one of the Seven Ancient Wonders was severely damaged by an earthquake in 956 CE?	956	Lighthouse of Alexandria	25%
Who had female bodyguards known as the "Amazonian Guard"?	1942-2011	Muammar Gaddafi	25%
What Edward Hopper painting depicts four people in a diner at night?	1942	Nighthawks	25%
What Soviet secret police was responsible for carrying out Stalin's Great Purge?	1934-1946	NKVD	25%
Who was the last monarch of the Empire of Brazil?	1824-1891	Pedro II	25%
The Mirabal sisters were killed by Victor Alicinio Peña Rivera, the right-hand man to "El Jefe". Who is El Jefe in this context?	1960	Rafael Trujillo	25%
Which city was built near the Swedish fort of Nyenschantz after the Swedish loss in the Great Northern War?	1703	Saint Petersburg	25%
What city was built at the site of the Swedish fort of Nyenschantz?	1611	St. Petersburg	25%
What treaty of WW1 partitioned Ottoman land, only to be replaced by a new Treaty of Lausanne?	1920	Treaty of {Sèvres}	25%
The "dead man's hand" stems from what man's poker hand when he was assassinated in Deadwood, South Dakota?	1837-1876	Wild Bill Hickok	25%
What French-speaking cultural region often comprises of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island?	None	Acadia	22%
James Christie held what profession, later founding a institution for this profession bearing his last name?	1730-1803	Auctioneer	20%
The Prophet Muhammad helped free Salman Farsi from slavery by planting 300 of what tree?	None	Date	20%
Which modern-day capital was formerly known as Stalinabad?	None	Dushanbe	20%
In what country is there the oldest evidence of wine production?	6000 BCE	Georgia	20%
Which Canadian PM helped pass the Canadian Bill of Rights, giving First Nations peoples a right to vote?	1895-1979	John Diefenbaker	20%
What phrase did Todd Beamer say right before United Airlines Flight 93 nosedived into Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA?	2001	Let's Roll	20%
Which political party has dominated Japanese politics nearly uninterrupted since 1955?	1955-present	Liberal Democratic Party	20%
Which R&B singer was shot and killed by his own father?	1939-1984	Marvin Gaye	20%
The Prespa Agreement renamed what nation in 2019?	2019	North Macedonia	20%
Who was the first PM of the Congo who was assassinated by Katangan and Belgian forces in Élisabethville?	1925-1961	Patrice Lumumba	20%
Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Clara Zetkin led what German Marxist political party?	None	Spartacus League	20%
T. S. Eliot states the world ends, in "The Hollow Man", not with a bang but with a _____	1925	Whimper	20%
What was the score for Mineiraço, the World Cup match between Germany and Brazil?	2014	7-1	17%
Who survived an assassination attempt outside of "The Factory"?	1968	Andy Warhol	17%
A gas leak in what city injured over 500 thousand, largely considered the "world's worst industrial disaster"?	1984	Bhopal	17%
Which country had their independence movement led by Bernardo O'Higgins?	None	Chile	17%
Major protests happened in 2019-2020 in what city?	2019-2020	Hong Kong	17%
In what country would you find a "Naxalite"?	None	India	17%
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the communists and which political party, led by Chiang Kai-shek?	1927-1949-present?	Kuomintang	17%
What was the name of the last Vietnamese dynasty?	None	Nguyen Dynasty	17%
Who is often called the first "Great Unifier" of Japan?	1534-1582	Oda Nobunaga	17%
Who declared their country in war to invade Iran in the early 80s?	1980-1988	Saddam Hussein	17%
Mohammed Abdul Karim is also known by what title, for tutoring Queen Victoria on topics like Urdu?	1863-1909	The {Munshi}	17%
The Montreal Protocol created an agreement to ban what ozone depleter?	1987	Chlorofluorocarbons	14%
Which artist utilized pointillism in his work "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"?	1859-1891	Georges Seurat	14%
Which of the heptarchy would unite England?	None	Wessex	14%
Who do the Sunnis believe succeeded Muhammad as caliph after his death?	None	Abu Bakr	13%
Which catholic order does religious work and has a permanent observer status at the United Nations?	None	Knights of {Malta}	13%
Which Soviet puppet state had the capital of Kyzyl? (Hint: It starts with T)	1921-1944	Tannu Tuva	13%
The Tokyo Raid was also known by what name, the first American air attack on the Japanese mainland?	1942	{Doolittle} Raid	10%
One would most likely find a group of "Nullies" in the 1830s in what US state?	1832-1833	South Carolina	10%
The Eiffel Tower was built for which year's World's Fair?	?	1889	0%
Which place in the Nordics is permanently demilitarized after the Crimean War?	1856-present	Åland	0%
Enver Hoxha was a communist dictator who led what country?	1908-85	Albania	0%
Which city was named "Verny" from 1867-1921?	1867-1921	Almaty	0%
Who is known as the "Father of Microbiology"?	1632-1723	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	0%
What country was the first to adopt Christianity as its state religion?	301 CE	Armenia	0%
The "Vlach Question" refers to the historical and current cultural division of what Romance-speaking Balkan peoples?	None	Aromanian	0%
Which doomsday cult killed 13 by releasing sarin gas on the Tokyo Subway?	1995	Aum Shinrikyo	0%
What "House of Wisdom" was burnt down in 1258 due to a Mongol siege of the city?	1258	{Baghdad} House of Wisdom	0%
Which battle was fought between the Romans and Carthage, possibly being the largest naval battle in history?	256 BCE	Battle of {Cape Ecnomus}	0%
Which battle with the Vikings ended with English victory, killing Harald Hardrada in the process?	1066	Battle of {Stamford Bridge}	0%
Which modern-day nation was known as "British Honduras"?	None	Belize	0%
What was the name of the event of which demonstrators, led by Father Gapon, were shot at by soldiers when they attempted to march onto the Winter Palace?	1905	Bloody Sunday	0%
The Orange Free State was a republic established by what peoples?	1854-1902	Boers	0%
In which war did the Eight-Nation Alliance (and others) fight the anti-western Chinese?	1899-1901	{Boxer's} Rebellion	0%
Which Dalit helped to draft the Indian Constitution and developed "Neo-Buddhism"?	1891-1956	B. R. Ambedkar	0%
In which country did the Muslim slave "Malê revolt" take place?	1835	Brazil	0%
What was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire?	1326-1360s	Bursa	0%
Who became "father of modern taxonomy" after his publication of System Naturae?	1707-1778	Carl Linnaeus	0%
What is the name of the Neolithic settlement in Turkey that showed the transition from villages to cities?	Approx. 5700 BCE	Çatalhöyük	0%
What variety of rice helped sustain a growing Song Dynasty population, after being introduced from Vietnam?	11th Century	{Champa} Rice	0%
Who was the founder of the Maurya Empire?	324-182 BCE	Chandragupta Maurya	0%
The ECSC is often called the "spiritual predecessor" to the European Union. What does the first C stand for?	1952-2002	Coal	0%
What word describes the American foreign policy against the Soviets?	1947-1991	Containment	0%
The Special Period was an economic collapse of what nation following the collapse of the Soviet Union?	1991-2000	Cuba	0%
Who is the only British prime minister who's first language wasn't English?	1863-1945	David Lloyd George	0%
Which Russian composer was most likely paranoid due to the denouncement of his works by Joseph Stalin?	1906-1975	Dmitri Shostakovich	0%
What was the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony?	None	Dresden	0%
Fretilin was an independence movement, now center-left politial party, in what nation?	None	East Timor	0%
Which nation was the first to allow electronic, online voting?	2005	Estonia	0%
What rebellion pitted gold miners against British Australian authority?	1851-1854	{Eureka} Rebellion	0%
In the past, most national currencies were backed by gold or silver. Currencies nowadays are called what, not backed by any commodity?	None	{Fiat} Currency	0%
Who is sometimes called the father of modern science?	1564-1642	Galileo Galilei	0%
Which war ended with the start of the Kamakura Shogunate, led under Minamoto no Yoritomo?	1180-1185	{Genpei} War	0%
Who represented France in the Treaty of Versailles?	1841-1929	Georges Clemenceau	0%
In what modern-day nation is the old Kingdom of Iberia in (Hint: not Spain nor Portugal)?	302 BCE-580 CE	Georgia	0%
Who conceded election defeat in Nigeria in 2015 to Muhammadu Buhari, the first occurrence in Nigerian democracy?	1957-present	Goodluck Jonathan	0%
Which Finnish military leader and President is the only official "Field Marshal" in the nation?	1867-1951	Gustaf Mannerheim	0%
In what text was the phrase “an eye for an eye” first appear?	None	Hammurabi’s Code	0%
Which serving Australian PM disappeared after swimming in the sea, being presumed dead days later?	1967	Harold Holt	0%
Where was Captain Cook killed?	1779	Hawaii	0%
Which Portuguese explorer is often attributed to initiating the Age of Exploration?	1394-1460	Henry the Navigator	0%
What is the name for the journey for which Muhammad and his supporters took from Mecca to Medina?	622	Hijrah	0%
Which ship did James Cook command to Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia?	1768-1771	HMS {Endeavour}	0%
Magna Carta : England :: The Golden Bull of 1222 : What country?	1222	Hungary	0%
Which Arab king founded Saudi Arabia?	1875-1953	Ibn Saud	0%
Which country is usually attributed to the invention of early chess?	7th Century	India	0%
The equation “26 + 6 = 1” indicates what country’s nationalism?	None	Ireland	0%
Who mainly led the Japanese navy during WW2?	1884-1943	Isoroku Yamamoto	0%
What is the name of the letter, written by Émile Zola, against the Dreyfus Affair, which was a wrongful conviction of a French officer?	1898	J'accuse...!	0%
An organized mob of Sinhalese individuals burned down a library in what Sri Lankan city?	1981	Jaffna	0%
The number "2137", in internet culture, refers to (usually mockingly) the time of death of which Polish person?	2005	John Paul II	0%
Which Tanzanian leader promoted the idea of "Ujamaa"?	1922-1999	Julius Nyerere	0%
What is the national epic of Finland and Karelia?	1835-present	Kalevala	0%
Which pre-colonial kingdom had a white flag with a red X?	1390-1914	Kongo Kingdom	0%
What is the name of the councils who elected the Great Khans of the Mongol Empire?	None	Kurultai	0%
Who was the first Prime Minister (and President) of Ghana?	1909-1972	Kwame Nkrumah	0%
Who desgined the master plan for the city of Chandigarh, India?	1950-1951	Le Corbusier	0%
Who led Singapore for a majority of its modern history?	1923-2015	Lee Kuan Yew	0%
In 2023, the city of Derna experienced the failures of two dams that killed thousands in what country?	2023	Libya	0%
Which European country was the last to officially adopt Christianity?	1387	Lithuania	0%
What is the term for textile workers that opposed automated looms due to fears of losing their jobs during the Industrial Revolution?	None	Luddites	0%
The Nazi government proposed forcibly relocating European Jews to what island?	1940	Madagascar	0%
Which avatar of the God Vishnu would save Manu from a great flood?	None	Matsya	0%
What Greek irredentist idea wanted Greece to annex all territory bordering the Aegean Sea?	None	{Megali} Idea	0%
Which Israeli PM signed the Camp David Accords?	1978	Menachem Begin	0%
What term in Indonesian and Malay means "independent"?	None	Merdeka	0%
What kingdom ruled most of Madagascar before French colonization?	1540-1897	{Merina} Kingdom	0%
Which Soviet commander was nicknamed "Red Napoleon"?	1893-1937	Mikhail Tukhachevsky	0%
Which WW2 leader was known to be an admiral, despite leading a landlocked nation?	1868-1957	Miklós Horthy	0%
What volcano's eruption was the deadliest, killing 71,000 to 250,100+ people?	1815	Mount Tambora	0%
Who recited the lyrics to "What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel" in front of US Congress?	1969	Mr. Rogers	0%
Which country has/had breakaway states named Karen, Kachin, and Karenni?	None	Myanmar	0%
An attempt to establish anarcho-communism in Ukraine was spearheaded by which anarchist revolutionary?	1888-1934	Nestor Makhnov	0%
Which humanist philosopher was known for his paraphrase "the ends justify the means"?	1469-1527	Niccolò Machiavelli	0%
A forged document created by Italian intelligence attempted to show Saddam Hussein buying uranium from what nation?	2001	Niger	0%
Lady Jane Grey is also known by what nickname?	1536 or 1537 - 1554	{Nine} Days Queen	0%
Which band sabotaged their own Buenos Aires concert after a sexist crowd disrespected the opening band?	1992	Nirvana	0%
Who was the first president of Kazakhstan, leading from 1991 to 2019?	1940-present	Nursultan Nazarbayev	0%
What CIA operation was used to coup Chilean President Salvador Allende?	1973	Operation {Condor}	0%
Which Buddhist figure was abducted by the CCP and has been "missing" for 30 years?	None	Panchen Lama	0%
Which country was the main victor of the Chaco War?	1932-1935	Paraguay	0%
Which part of Italy, under Count Camillo di Cavour, united Italy?	1848-1971	Piedmont-Sardinia	0%
Which country was led by a dictator named António de Oliveira Salazar?	1932-1968	Portugal	0%
Whose leadership was criticized after the fatal Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole?	1868-1912	Robert Falcon Scott	0%
Which viking was the first ruler of Normandy?	911-928	Rollo	0%
Officially, what is the only sister city to Paris?	None	Rome	0%
Which side of the English Civil War opposed the divine right of kings?	1642-1651	Roundheads	0%
On American military playing cards, who was the Ace of Spades?	None	Saddam Hussein	0%
What island kingdom would fight a civil war, supported by American and German sides?	1886-1894	Samoa	0%
What was the name of corps of French African sharpshooters recruited during both World Wars?	None	{Senegalese} Tirailleurs	0%
Which Russian composer composed "Dance of the Knights"?	1891-1953	Sergei Prokofiev	0%
Which Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal?	1592-1666	Shah Jahan	0%
Which epic poem, written by Ferdowsi, is the national epic of Greater Iran?	None	Shahmaneh	0%
Which Finnish sniper was known as "The White Death", reported to shoot over 500 Soviet soldiers?	1905-2002	Simo Häyhä	0%
Who wrote the "Jamaica Letter"?	1815	Simón Bolívar	0%
Historically, who would most likely do a "cakewalk"?	None	Slaves	0%
Donoghue v Stevenson created modern "duty of care" after Mrs. May Donoghue found what in her ginger beer?	1932	Snail	0%
Transkei, Venda, and Bophuthatswana were Bantustans which existed in what country?	1976-1994	South Africa	0%
CNT-FAI is an anarcho-syndicalist party in what country?	None	Spain	0%
The “Atlatl” is a type of what weapon?	None	Spear	0%
Which nation holds the most pyramids, built by the Kingdom of Kush?	None	Sudan	0%
Who was the first president of South Korea?	1875-1965	Syngman Rhee	0%
What is the name of the indigenous people that Columbus met with?	1492	Taíno	0%
What was the name of Ottoman reforms that aimed to liberalize the economy in sight of Ottoman decline?	1839-1876	{Tanzimat} Reforms	0%
In the Ancien Régime, what represented the commoners and the bourgeois?	None	Third Estate	0%
Which Danish astronomer famously lost a part of his nose in a sword duel at the age of 20?	1566	Tycho Brahe	0%
Which Germanic tribe is responsible for the 455 Sack of Rome?	455	Vandals	0%
Who discovered the first direct sea route between Europe and India?	1498	Vasco da Gama	0%
The FULRO insurgency represented Montagnards and other indigenous groups fighting against what nation?	None	Vietnam	0%
What is the word for the first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire?	None	Vilayet	0%
The Cry of Dolores (Grito de Dolores) usually ends with saying what three times?	None	Viva México	0%
What song is often called "Australia's unofficial national anthem"?	None	Waltzing Matilda	0%
What was the last civil war of Roman Republic?	32 BCE-30 BCE	War of {Actium}	0%
What is the main slogan used in the Occupy Wall Street movement?	2011	We are the {99%}	0%
Which part of Bulgaria was ceded to Greece after the Second Balkan War?	1913	Western Thrace	0%
Which musician played on guitars which read "This machine kills fascists"?	None	Woody Guthrie	0%
What is the cultural capital of Indonesia?	None	Yogyakarta	0%
Which emperor funded Zheng He's voyages?	1360-1424	{Yongle} Emperor	0%
Who was the 2006 Time Magazine’s Person of The Year? (Hint: You know this person)	2006	You	0%
Who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader?	1914-1984	Yuri Andropov	0%
What sea disappeared due to "polders"?	None	Zuiderzee	0%

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