| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Colour of The Beatles’ submarine | Yellow | 98%
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| Former country in the Balkans | Yugoslavia | 98%
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| Jewish language emerging in the Middle Ages in Central Europe | Yiddish | 93%
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| Russian president who stood on a tank and averted a coup in 1991 (Boris) | Yeltsin | 92%
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| Given name of cosmonaut Gagarin, the first man in space | Yuri | 91%
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| The “White Rose” of the royal houses in Britain | York | 89%
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| WWI battle site in Belgium where the Germans used poison gas | Ypres | 70%
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| Irish poet, dramatist, nationalist and senator (William Butler) | Yeats | 59%
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| HMY Britannia is a famous example of this type of ship | Yacht | 58%
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| Traditional winter festival in Scandinavia | Yule | 58%
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| Irish bacteriologist Adrian Stokes isolated the virus of this tropical disease in 1927 (but died from it) | Yellow fever | 56%
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| British TV presenter famous for her interviews “on the bed” in the 1990s (Paula) | Yates | 45%
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| Four chemical elements are named after this Swedish mining village (name the village or any of the elements) | Ytterby (Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Terbium) | 38%
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| How British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was dubbed | Yorkshire ripper | 34%
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| Former Ukrainian president poisoned with dioxine in 2004 (Viktor) | Yushchenko | 21%
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| Alternative name for 1816 AD which was exceptionally cold and led to crop failure and hunger | Year without a summer | 20%
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| Oldest town on the Volga river and medieval principality (13th – 15th century) | Yaroslavl | 17%
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| Most important Soviet aircraft manufacturer in WWII | Yakovlev | 8%
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| Hero of the Greek war of independence (Alexander) | Ypsilantis | 7%
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| Scandinavian royal house of the early Middle Ages, subject of a “skald” (old Norse poem) | Yngling | 5%
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