| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The first two men to walk on the Moon... | Armstrong, Neil | 100%
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| Disease caused by HIV that rocked the '80s | AIDS | 97%
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| Company incorporated by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs that helped popularize the personal computer | Apple | 94%
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| WWII's deadliest concentration camp | Auschwitz | 94%
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| Country in which the mujahideen fought against the Soviets | Afghanistan | 89%
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| South African system of institutional racism against which Nelson Mandela fought | Apartheid | 89%
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| ...and the mission that took them to the Moon | Apollo 11 | 89%
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII | Axis powers | 89%
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| Aldrin, Buzz | 86%
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| Brutalist dictator who served as Uganda's president during the '70s | Amin, Idi | 81%
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| Led the first successful expeditions to the North and South Poles | Amundsen, Roald | 81%
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| Commonwealth country federated in 1901 | Australia | 78%
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| Won its independence from France in 1962 after an eight-year war | Algeria | 75%
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| President of Palestine and chairman of the PLO who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 | Arafat, Yasser | 72%
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| First president of the Republic of Turkey | Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal | 72%
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| Romanov Grand Duchess who was (falsely) speculated to have survived persecution during the Russian Revolution | Anastasia | 69%
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| Art and architectural style exemplified by the Empire State Building | Art Deco | 67%
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| Egyptian dam whose construction required the relocation of 22 ancient monuments, kickstarting UNESCO's World Heritage Sites program | Aswan Dam | 67%
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| Term for the 1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany | Anschluss | 67%
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| The Philippines' first female president | Aquino, Corazon | 50%
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| Room of the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg that was famously looted and dismantled by Nazi Germany; its final fate is unknown | {Amber} Room | 28%
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| Phrase borrowed from Latin meaning "miraculous year"; Albert Einstein had one in 1905 | Annus mirabilis | 28%
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