| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Extremely influential socialist philosopher and economist (Karl) | Marx | 99%
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| This Sicilian term is now used for criminal organizations all over the world | Mafia | 96%
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| Marched on Rome with his blackshirts in 1923 and installed fascism (Benito) | Mussolini | 93%
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| The world’s first industrial city | Manchester | 90%
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| She didn’t really say “Let them eat cake” | Marie Antoinette | 90%
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| Famous composer of the Classical period in Vienna and child prodigy (“Magic Flute”, “Don Giovanni”) | Mozart | 87%
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| Simply THE renaissance family | Medici | 84%
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| The attack of their hordes in 1240 spread panic in Europe | Mongols | 82%
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| These muslims occupied (and brought a rich culture to) the Iberian peninsula | Moors | 76%
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| A building for monks, Saint Athanasius in Bulgaria is considered the first of its kind on European territory | Monastery | 70%
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| Soldiers with early forms of rifles used between the 16th and 19th century, made famous by an Alexandre Dumas novel featuring D’Artagnan | Musketeers | 66%
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| Battle site of the antiquity allegedly 42.195 km from Athens | Marathon | 65%
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| American reconstruction plan for Europe after WWII | Marshall Plan | 64%
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| Ugric people possibly from the Ural region migrating to present-day Hungary in the 9th century | Magyars | 56%
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| This 19th century Silesian biologist is considered the founder of genetics (Gregor) | Mendel | 55%
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| This medieval term for borderland lives on in the name of many European regions, among them a country in Scandinavia | March/Mark | 32%
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| First advanced culture in Europe, possibly destroyed by the eruption of the same name | Minoan | 29%
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| First Frankish dynasty, sometimes linked with the legend of the Holy Grail in popular fiction | Merovingians | 24%
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| Turbulent era in European history with Germanic, Slavic and Turkic tribes finding new places to settle | Migration period | 24%
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| These brothers taught mankind to fly | Montgolfière | 5%
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