| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Radiological method discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895 | X-ray | 99%
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| Scottish chemist William Ramsay discovered this noble gas in 1898 | Xenon | 84%
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| Athens defeated this Persian king in the naval battle of Salamis | Xerxes | 84%
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| Saint-Saëns wrote the first concert with specific use of this instrument | Xylophone | 79%
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| Major player in the most successful era of FC Barcelona | Xavi | 72%
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| Co-founder of the Jesuit order, canonized in 1622 (Francis) | Xavier | 52%
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| Daughter of Tsar Boris Godunov, victim of several rapes during the “time of troubles” (first name) | Xenia (Borisovna) | 38%
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| Three monasteries were built in this city in Western Thrace | Xanthi | 33%
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| Greek military leader and philosopher, sometimes considered a rival of Plato | Xenophon | 27%
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| The name of Socrates’ wife is unfairly used to describe a quarrelsome wife | Xanthippe | 16%
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| This sugar substitute was discovered by German Emil Fischer in 1891 | Xylitol | 14%
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| Swiss soccer club from Neuchâtel with three national championships | Xamax | 13%
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| Longtime head of the Platonic Academy (339-314 BC) | Xenocrates | 11%
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| Wife of Spanish national hero El Cid, ruled Valencia around 1100 (ancient spelling) | Ximena (Jimena) | 9%
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| Greek avant garde composer and architect (Iannis, 1922-2001) | Xenakis | 7%
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| Immortal horse in Greek mythology with the ability to speak, drew Achilles’ chariot in the Trojan war | Xanthus | 6%
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| French surgeon Princeteau conducted the first of its kind by transplanting parts of a rabbit’s kidney into a child in 1905 (it died a few days later) | Xenotransplantation | 6%
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| e.g. the Euro in Montenegro and Kosovo | Xenocurrency | 4%
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| Personal secretary of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, wrote the book “The true story of the conquest of Peru” (Francisco) | Xerez | 4%
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| Italian sculptor (1855-1926) whose works are displayed in Italy, the US, Brazil and Ukraine (Ettore) | Ximenes | 4%
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