| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Year in which Hitler invaded the Soviet Union | 1941 | 85%
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| Military general who became revolutionary emperor of France during the French Revolution | Napoleon Bonaparte | 82%
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| Former name of Istanbul | Constantinople | 78%
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| The first man in space | Yuri Gagarin | 59%
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| Canal that connects the Mediterranean and Red Sea | Suez Canal | 57%
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| Country in Oceania originally used as a penal colony by the British | Australia | 54%
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| Communist leader of China who enacted the Great Leap Forward | Mao Zedong | 51%
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| The most common nickname of the American flag | Stars and stripes | 51%
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| Consul of the Roman Empire who conquered Gaul | Julius Caesar | 49%
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| Islamic religious war | Jihad | 46%
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| First president of the Russian Republic after the Cold War | Boris Yeltsin | 37%
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| Term for describing a period of intense anti-communist suspicion from the 1940s - 1950s named after a US Wisconsin senator | McCarthy Era | 29%
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| Germanic tribes who migrated to England in the 5th century | Saxons | 28%
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| Alliance between Russia, France and Great Britain during World War I | Triple Entente | 24%
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| Trade league in the Baltic and North sea during the medieval ages and renaissance | Hanseatic League | 15%
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