| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Most influential “enlightenment” philosopher of continental Europe (Immanuel) | Kant | 85%
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| Queen Victoria was born in this royal palace in West London | Kensington Palace | 83%
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| This English author became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Rudyard) | Kipling | 79%
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| Poland's capital from the 11th to the 16th century, heavily destroyed by the Mongols in 1241 | Krakow | 78%
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| 1960s Soviet leader famous for shoe-banging at the U.N. (Nikita) | Khrushchev | 73%
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| German astronomer of the 17th century who calculated the orbits of planets around the sun (Johannes) | Kepler | 69%
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| Capital of the “Rus”, a medieval East Slavic state | Kiev | 67%
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| Home county of peasant rebel Wat Tyler | Kent | 57%
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| Deficit spending in crisis is a key issue in his economic theory (John Maynard) | Keynes | 57%
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| The seven bridges of this Prussian town became a famous logical riddle | Königsberg/Kaliningrad | 57%
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| Military order dissolved in 1307, subject of many conspiracy theories. | Knights Templar | 47%
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| Name of the raft of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl who intended to prove the migration from South America to Polynesia | Kon-Tiki | 46%
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| 1389 battlefield important in Serbian history | Kosovo field | 43%
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| Russian painter, pioneer of abstract art (Wassily) | Kandinsky | 42%
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| City in Western Russia and site of the largest tank battle in history (1943) | Kursk | 39%
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| Former name of a Scandinavian capital | Kristiania (Oslo) | 37%
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| German industrial group infamous for arming the Nazis | Krupp | 37%
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| Union of Sweden, Denmark and Norway (1397-1523) | Kalmar Union | 35%
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| Austrian longtime conductor of Berlin Philharmonic, controversial due to his career in the Nazi years (Herbert von) | Karajan | 23%
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| Site of an unsuccessful 1918 sailors’ rebellion against the Bolshevik rule in Russia | Kronstadt | 13%
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