| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Most feared London criminal of the 19th century | Jack the Ripper | 95%
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| English king forced to sign the Magna Carta | John Lackland | 94%
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| Fool at medieval noble courts | Jester | 83%
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| Balfour promised these often persecuted people a nation | Jews | 81%
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| Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution | James II | 78%
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| Inspired the French to rise against English rule | Joan of Arc | 78%
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| “Great” Byzantine emperor | Justinian | 69%
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| Founder of the best-known Irish whiskey distillery in 1780 (John) | Jameson | 44%
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| Germanic tribe possibly from continental Denmark who settled in Britain along with the Angles and Saxons | Jutes | 40%
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| Influential political club during the French Revolution | Jacobins | 37%
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| Elephant-hunting successor of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco | Juan Carlos | 30%
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| Popular (and sometimes controversial) Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980) | Juliana | 29%
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| 1830 uprising in France (named after the month it occured) tumbling the Bourbon dynasty | July Revolution | 28%
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| Short-lived emirate in Andalusia, today a Mecca of motor racing | Jerez de la Frontera | 25%
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| City in Thuringia famous for its optical industry (Carl Zeiss) | Jena | 24%
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| "The Good Pope": Popular reformist pope calling the 2nd Vatican Council | John XXIII | 17%
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| Dynasty of the first five Roman emperors | Julio-Claudian | 14%
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| General, PM and president of communist Poland, often pictured with dark sunglasses (Wojciech) | Jaruzelski | 12%
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| Royal dynasty ruling in Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia and Hungary | Jagiellons | 11%
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| Danish daredevil, self-declared and short-lived “protector” of Iceland in 1809 (Jørgen) | Jørgensen | 9%
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