12th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
J	Levantine city, lying between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, which was the target of the Third Crusade	Jerusalem	85%
V	This Italian city hosted negotiations for a peace treaty between the Papacy, Emperor Barbarossa and the Norman Kings of Sicily	Venice	84%
R	Warrior King of England, known in his native French tongue as “Couer de Lion” and one of the leaders of the Third Crusade	Richard the Lionheart	82%
U	The first of these institutions of higher education was founded in the Italian city of Bologna, followed shortly by the English city of Oxford	University	82%
N	This country’s leader, Sigurd I, becomes the first European king to visit the holy land, either as a pilgrim or on crusade	Norway	77%
K	South-East Asian empire, which built the temple complex of Angkor Wat at their capital	Khmer	75%
O	Nephew of Kings Richard and John of England, elected King of Germany before later being crowned Holy Roman Emperor	Otto IV	69%
Y	River which was the site of several battles in the wars between the Jurchen-Jin and Song dynasties in China	Yangtze	66%
C	Spanish city on the banks of the river Guadalquivir, which served as the capital of the conquering Almoravid and Almohad moorish dynasties	Cordoba	62%
S	This warlord, founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, spearheaded the Muslim military resistance to the Third Crusade	Saladin	62%
E	This powerful woman, Duchess of Aquitaine and Queen of France, became Queen of England following her marriage to Henry Duke of Normandy (who later became King Henry II)	Eleanor of Aquitaine	57%
T	This Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered, probably on the orders of King Henry II	Thomas Becket	54%
D	Prince of the Cumbrians, crowned King of Alba (Scotland) and later made a Saint	David I	48%
A	Empire founded by King Henry II, consisting of lands in England, Wales, Ireland and France	Angevin	38%
F	Muslim Caliphate, based in Cairo and tracing its lineage to the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, came to an end after invasion by the Seljuk Turks	Fatimid	38%
L	The Kings of this medieval north Iberian state, heavily involved in the Reconquista, gave their name to a modern American rock band	Leon	38%
M	Empress who fought a civil war against King Stephen for the throne of England, also known as The Anarchy	Matilda	33%
H	German nun, polymath and mystic, writer, composer, philosopher and early practitioner of natural history	Hildegard of Bingen	30%
I	Controversy, which was really a power battle between secular Kings and the Papacy, over the right to appoint Bishops and Abbots	Investiture	25%
G	Political factions, divided by their support for the Holy Roman Emperor or the Pope, dominated Italian politics throughout the century	Guelphs / Ghibbelines	20%
B	Benedictine monk, founder of Clairvaux Abbey and the Knights Templar	Bernard of Clairvaux	18%
P	Mythical Christian King, said to have ruled a great empire in India or Central Asia	Prester John	13%
W	This ship sank soon after leaving Barfleur in Normandy, killing the heir to the English throne and his entire party, leading to a succession crisis	White Ship	13%
Z	Middle Eastern dynasty, based in Mosul and Damascus and named for its founder, a Seljuk Turkic general, controlled most of the Levant and Egypt throughout the century	Zengid	10%

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