| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| City divided by a wall from 1961-1989 | Berlin | 100%
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| John, Paul, George, and Ringo | The Beatles | 100%
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| Region of the Atlantic Ocean which became infamous for ship and aircraft disappearances | Bermuda Triangle | 92%
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| Last major German offensive of World War II's Western Front | Battle of the {Bulge} | 84%
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| Russian revolutionary faction led by Lenin | Bolsheviks | 84%
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| Site of a failed invasion into Cuba backed by the US government | Bay of Pigs | 78%
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| Leader of the USSR from 1964-1982 | Brezhnev, Leonid | 73%
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| Series of wars from 1912-13 involving Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, the Ottoman Empire, Romania, and Serbia | {Balkan} Wars | 65%
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| Danish scientist who made great advancements in our understanding of atomic structure | Bohr, Niels | 62%
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| German design school that married aesthetics with mass production principles | Bauhaus | 51%
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| First female prime minister of Pakistan, as well as the first in any Muslim majority country | Bhutto, Benazir | 51%
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| First prime minister of Israel | Ben-Gurion, David | 46%
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| Indian city that in 1984 faced the world's worst industrial disaster | Bhopal | 46%
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| The Axis invasion of the USSR — the costliest offensive in history | Operation {Barbarossa} | 43%
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| Chinese rebels who opposed foreign influence and gained the support of the Empress Dowager in January 1900 | Boxers | 38%
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| French feminist and social theorist who authored The Second Sex | Beauvoir, Simone de | 35%
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| Estate in Buckinghamshire that served as the hub for the UK's codebreaking efforts during WWII | Bletchley Park | 32%
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| Creator of the World Wide Web | Berners-Lee, Tim | 24%
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| The first synthetic plastic, created in 1907 | Bakelite | 16%
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| Sixteen chemical elements were discovered here from 1940-1974 | {Berkeley} Lab | 11%
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| 1970 cyclone that ravaged communities north of the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 300,000 and spurring political upheaval | Bhola Cyclone | 5%
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| Father of the Green Revolution; his work in bolstering agricultural yields have likely spared billions from famine | Borlaug, Norman | 3%
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