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

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