| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| City-state in Southern Mesopotamia, site of a large Ziggurat and the capital of the Neo-Sumerian Empire | Ur | 96%
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| Third century Bishop of Rome or Pope, the first of his name | Urban | 74%
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| Roman name for Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca and veteran of the Trojan Wars | Ulysses | 66%
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| Large red rock, central to ancient Aboriginal mythology | Uluru | 63%
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| Ethnic group, originally Turkic peoples from the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, now the largest group in the Xinjiang region of Western China | Uyghur | 49%
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| Italic tribal group of central Iron-Age Italy, gave their name to a modern region | Umbri | 47%
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| Sumerian city-state dominant in the 4th Millenium BC, gave it’s name to the period | Uruk | 44%
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| Non Indo-European language family originating in Northern Eurasia, evolved into modern languages including Hungarian, Finnish and Sami | Uralic | 36%
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| Sumerian city-state famous for it’s territorial wars with Lagash, home of Lugalzagezi, possibly the first Emperor in history | Umma | 17%
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| Late Vedic Sanskrit texts, supplied the basis of Hindu philosophy | Upanishads | 13%
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| Neolithic port city in Northern Syria, founded circa 6000 BC, lasted until the Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC | Ugarit | 10%
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| Prehistoric period of ancient Mesopotamia, spanning roughly 6500 BC - 4000 BC | Ubaid | 9%
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| Late Bronze-Age culture of Central Europe named for their burial rituals. Later succeeded by the Celtic Hallstatt culture | Urnfield | 6%
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