| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| D | The Ultimate Renaissance Man, painter of the Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci | 97%
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| E | German-born theoretical physicist well-known for his theory of relativity | Albert Einstein | 96%
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| J | Minority ethnic group targeted by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust | Jews | 95%
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| O | English city whose famous university was founded in 1096 | Oxford | 95%
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| L | Russian revolutionary who seized power as leader of the Bolsheviks | Vladimir Lenin | 92%
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| I | First Tsar of all of Russia who presumably caused much terror | Ivan the Terrible | 91%
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| T | Fateful ship that departed from Southampton in 1912 on its way to New York | Titanic | 89%
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| A | Supposedly said "Let them eat cake" | Marie Antoinette | 85%
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| S | Greek philosopher who is often credited as the founder of Western philosophy | Socrates | 84%
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| H | Carthaginian general who led his African battle elephants across the Alps | Hannibal | 83%
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| Z | King of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus | Zeus | 82%
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| F | Victor in the Spanish Civil War who became the country's dictator until 1975 | Francisco Franco | 81%
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| B | King Henry VIII's second wife | Anne Boleyn | 79%
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| M | Document signed by King John of England in 1215 which established the principle that the king was not above the law | Magna Carta | 79%
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| Y | Country in the Balkans that dissolved in 1992 | Yugoslavia | 79%
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| G | Name given to modern-day France by the Romans during Julius Caesar's conquests | Gaul | 78%
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| Q | Niels Bohr and Max Planck both received a Nobel Prize for their work in this foundational theory of modern physics | Quantum Theory | 78%
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| N | Heroic admiral of the Royal Navy who was killed during his victory in the Battle of Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 72%
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| P | Ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the gods | Pantheon | 68%
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| C | Writing system developed in Bulgaria in the 9th-10th century AD for Slavic-speaking people | Cyrillic Script | 60%
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| W | Knight who was one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence | William Wallace | 53%
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| R | Confederation of German client states established in 1806 at the command of Napoleon | Confederation of the {Rhine} | 48%
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| V | Germanic people who had kingdoms in Iberia and North Africa, and sacked Rome in 455 AD | Vandals | 47%
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| X | Roman numerals for 44 | XLIV | 46%
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| U | Codename of one of the D-Day beaches stormed by allied forces on June 6, 1944 | Utah | 45%
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| K | Former capital of Prussia, now the Russian city of Kaliningrad | Königsberg | 31%
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