| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| One of the greatest thinkers of ancient Greece | Socrates | 93%
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| The greatest bard in English literature | Shakespeare | 92%
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| Leader of a slave rebellion in ancient Rome | Spartacus | 82%
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| Jazz is hardly imaginable without his invention (Adolphe) | Sax | 81%
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| Decisive WWII battleground in Eastern Europe | Stalingrad | 75%
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| Founded by a “great” Russian tsar | St. Petersburg | 66%
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| Lost its independence in the Treaty of Union 1707 | Scotland | 63%
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| Form of slavery of peasants in the Middle Ages and early modern period | Serfdom | 59%
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| Split between the Roman-Catholic and the Orthodox churches in 1054 | Schism | 58%
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| Irish republican party led by Gerry Adams for 35 years | Sinn Féin | 53%
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| Austrian Empress assassinated in 1898 in Geneva (nickname) | Sisi | 34%
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| Portuguese dictator whose authoritarian system ended with the Carnation Revolution (Antonio) | Salazar | 28%
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| Name of several famous Roman generals in the Punic Wars, one of them defeating Hannibal | Scipio | 27%
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| Several incidents with this battleship type in the 1980s caused chaos in Sweden’s navy and politics | Submarine | 26%
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| This driving class of the French Revolution wore no breeches | Sansculottes | 24%
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| German playwright considered an advocate of liberalism (Friedrich, “the Robbers”, “William Tell”) | Schiller | 21%
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| Roman dictator who gave up his power voluntarily in 79 BC (Lucius Cornelius) | Sulla | 17%
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| “Great” tsar of Bulgaria in the 9th/10th century | Simeon | 13%
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| This Russian general born in 1730 fought in numerous countries and crossed the Alps (Alexander) | Suvorov | 8%
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| Nickname of Bavarian king Ludwig II who mysteriously drowned in Lake Starnberg | Swan king | 5%
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