| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| French “father of bacteriology”, a milk heating process is named after him (Louis) | Pasteur | 91%
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| Killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century | Plague | 88%
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| Three defenestrations took place in this Bohemian city (1419, 1483, 1618) | Prague | 85%
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| This Greek is labelled the founder of political philosophy | Plato | 83%
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| A socialist commune ruled this major European capital for two months in 1871 | Paris | 80%
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| Turned Russia into a European nation | Peter the Great | 69%
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| Around 1.47 m (4 ft 9) in size, but the greatest voice in French chanson (Edith) | Piaf | 68%
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| The rise of Rome, the decline of Carthage | Punic Wars | 66%
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| Working class in the centre of Karl Marx’ political theory | Proletariat | 64%
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| This Spanish king took the fatal decision to send his armada to England | Philipp II | 63%
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| French mathematician and physicist of the 17th century, invented a mechanical calculator. The Unit of pressure is named after him (Blaise) | Pascal | 60%
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| Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in 2006 with this radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie | Polonium | 55%
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| Partitioned three times between 1772 and 1795, but not lost yet | Poland | 51%
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| Russian battleship glorified in Sergey Eisensteins famous movie | Potemkin | 44%
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| This territory was created by a donation of Pepin the Short to the Pope | Papal State | 42%
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| His assassination was Sweden’s greatest mystery for decades (Olof) | Palme | 30%
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| Roman general, member of the first triumvirate along with Caesar and Crassus | Pompey | 30%
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| Lt. Col. in Soviet air defense who averted a nuclear war in 1983 (Stanislav) | Petrov | 16%
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| Infamous French government official who sent Jews to concentration camps in the 1940s and ordered the deadly Paris massacre of a peaceful pro-Algeria demonstration in 1961 (Maurice) | Papon | 5%
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| Medieval priest who granted indulgence for money | Pardoner | 4%
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