| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What year did the Berlin Wall fall? | 1989 | 99%
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| What conflict began in 1939? | World War Two | 95%
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| What British novel features a one-party state controlled by the Big Brother? | "1984" | 93%
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| In what country did two revolutions break out in 1917? | Russia | 93%
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| What country was annexed in the "Anschluss"? | Austria | 92%
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| What movement did Benito Mussolini start? | Fascism | 90%
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| Who led nationalist Spain during the civil war? | Francisco Franco | 90%
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| On what country did Austria-Hungary first declare war in 1914? | Serbia | 90%
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| In what European country did the greatest number of Jews live before World War Two? | Poland | 89%
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| Leopold II, considered responsible for genocide in the Congo, was king of... | Belgium | 87%
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| Who popularized the term "Iron Curtain" in a 1946 speech? | Winston Churchill | 83%
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| What was the first country to successfully separate from Yugoslavia in 1991? | Slovenia | 82%
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| In April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and what other country? | Norway | 80%
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| What country suffered a great famine at the beginning of the 1930s, known as the Holodomor? | Ukraine | 80%
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| What country unsuccessfully rebelled against the Soviets in 1956? | Hungary | 79%
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| The "Velvet Divorce" was a collapse of what country? | Czechoslovakia | 78%
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| What leader, known as "Father of the Turks", transformed Turkey into a secular republic? | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 78%
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| What military alliance did the USSR create in response to West Germany's accession to NATO? | Warsaw Pact | 78%
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| What nationality was subject to a genocide during the First World War that is still denied by the perpetrating country? | Armenians | 70%
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| What was the only Eastern European country where the fall of communism resulted in over 1000 deaths? | Romania | 70%
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| When did trench war abruptly stop in some parts of the Western Front in 1914? | On Christmas | 64%
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| What policy towards Nazi Germany is Neville Chamberlain associated with? | Appeasement | 62%
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| In what conflict were there NATO air strikes known as the Operation Deliberate Force? | Bosnian War | 60%
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| Where in Europe was there a civil war in the years 1946-49 between monarchist and communist forces? | Greece | 60%
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| What did Ukraine hand over to Russia in 1994 in return for security assurances? | Nuclear weapons | 60%
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| What event marked the end of the Troubles, the IRA's struggle against the UK in the second half of the century? | Good Friday Agreement | 59%
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| What year did famous youth protests erupt in much of Europe? | 1968 | 53%
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| "Lebensraum" stands for... | Living space | 52%
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| What year did Spain and Portugal join the European Economic Community? | 1986 | 51%
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| Where did France and the UK agree for Hitler's takeover of parts of Czechoslovakia? | Munich | 50%
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| A British political party that got replaced as a major player by the Labour Party was... | Liberal Party | 46%
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| What French term refers to the period of relaxation in the Cold War in the 1970s? | Détente | 40%
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| What was the name of a Polish anti-communist movement that peaked at 10 million members in 1981? | Solidarity | 40%
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| Who was the infamous collaborator with the Nazis from Norway? | Vidkun Quisling | 40%
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| What series of disputes involving Iceland had serious implications for the development of international law on the sea? | Cod Wars | 32%
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| Who proclaimed the creation of "Estado Novo", a dictatorship that lasted until the Carnation Revolution in 1974? | António de Oliveira Salazar | 26%
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| What part of Romania did the USSR annex in 1940? | Bessarabia | 23%
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| Who assassinated the Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973? | ETA | 16%
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| Where was the ceasefire ending World War One signed? | Compiègne | 13%
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| Alongside Adolf Hitler, what leader decided to involve significant forces in the Axis invasion of the USSR so as to regain lost territory? | Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim | 11%
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| What important document did the Council of Europe adopt in 1950? | European Convention on Human Rights | 10%
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| What was the term for an alliance of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania in interwar Europe? | Little Entente | 10%
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| Whose proposal in 1950 led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community? | Robert Schuman's | 9%
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| The two leaders of the Left Opposition to Stalin, alongside Lev Trotsky, were... | Lev Kamenev / Grigory Zinoviev | 8%
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| Who led Bulgaria for 35 years of the Cold War? | Todor Zhivkov | 8%
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| Who led German foreign policy for a couple of years during the interwar period, managing to secure the western border in the Locarno Treaty? | Gustav Stresemann | 7%
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| What was the name of the official newspaper of the Nazi Party? | Völkischer Beobachter | 7%
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| The murder of what socialist politician in 1924 was the decisive step in Mussolini's dictatorship building? | Giacomo Matteotti | 5%
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| What document from 1937, used as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials, has been described as the blueprint for Hitler's aggression? | Hossbach Memorandum | 2%
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| What incident was used as a casus belli for the 1935-36 Italian invasion of Ethiopia? | Ual-Ual Incident | 2%
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