| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| He invented electricity. | Alessandro Volta | 92%
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| Youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. There were rumours for years that she survived the massacre of her family in 1918 and lived a reclusive life in Hollywood to the age of 99. | Anastasia Nikolaevna | 92%
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| A minor character in Greek mythology (he received a footnote in Homer's 'Iliad'). A major figure in Roman mythology (he is the central character of Virgil's 'Aeneid' which became a bestseller). | Aeneas | 88%
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| Autonomous community in Spain. Capital is Seville. | Andalusia | 88%
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| This British officer interfered in the squabbles between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hejaz. He wrote a self-glorifying book and became know as... | Lawrence of Arabia | 88%
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| Napoleon's greatest victory on 2 December, 1805. | Austerlitz | 85%
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| Denmark's second largest city. | Aarhus | 81%
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| This battle saw the end of Marcus Antonius and his main squeeze. | Actium | 65%
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| This battle was an Allied fiasco, planned by Field Marshal Montgomery because he wanted to beat 'Blood and Guts' to Berlin. September 17-26, 1944. | Arnhem | 58%
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| According to William Shakespeare, this Roman general asked his fellow citizens if he could borrow their listening flaps. | Marcus Antonius | 50%
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| He deceived the Romans in 9 AD and annihilated three of their legions. | Arminius | 46%
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