| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Political philosopher and leader of the Russian October revolution | Lenin | 96%
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| His 95 protestant theses pinned on the church door in Wittenberg turned the whole continent upside down (Martin) | Luther | 95%
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| Huge Grand Duchy in Eastern Europe approx. 1230-1795, today the name of a Baltic country | Lithuania | 88%
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| French “Sun King” | Louis XIV | 88%
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| Home town of the probably most influential pop band | Liverpool (Beatles) | 86%
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| Royal House of the red rose | Lancaster | 80%
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| This Belgian king privately owned the Congo and was responsible for atrocities and millions of deaths | Leopold II | 77%
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| German Marxist revolutionary shot in 1919 by right-wing militia (Rosa) | Luxemburg | 77%
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| Geneva based United Nations predecessor, failed to prevent the outbreak of WWII | League of Nations | 74%
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| Last European country to introduce women's suffrage (1984) | Liechtenstein | 73%
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| Ocean liner sunk in 1915 by a German submarine | Lusitania | 70%
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| Destroyed in 1755 by one of the most catastrophic earthquakes in European history | Lisbon | 53%
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| Wealthy centre of the industrialization in Belgium | Liège | 42%
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| Most prominent and “magnificent” statesman of the Medici family | Lorenzo | 40%
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| Decisive medieval arm of the English infantry in the 100 years’ war | Longbow | 35%
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| Site of the “Battle of Nations” in 1813 with more than 90’000 casualties | Leipzig | 33%
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| Franco-German buffer state in the Middle ages and the early Modern period | Lorraine (Duchy) | 32%
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| Historic Irish province (the one with the golden harp) | Leinster | 24%
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| Celtic Iron Age culture, named after a village in Western Switzerland | La Tène | 7%
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| Europe’s deadliest cyclone in the 20th century (110 fatalities in 1999) | Lothar | 5%
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