| question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 7.Which U.S. president was the first to appear on television? | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 86%
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| 14.Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War? | Joan of Arc | 86%
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| 10.Who was the wartime nurse known as the “Lady with the Lamp"? | Florence Nightingale | 71%
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| 8.Which American Civil War general later became president of the United States? | Ulysses S. Grant | 71%
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| 15.In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born? | Germany | 57%
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| 6.Which Siberian peasant and mystic had a curious ability to heal the son of Emperor Nicholas II, which made him an influential favourite at the court? | Grigori Rasputin | 57%
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| 1.Who killed the most number of people | Mao Zedong | 57%
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| 11.Which leader was overthrown by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003? | Saddam Hussein | 57%
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| 12.Which French women was charged with the crime of wearing men’s clothing? | Joan of Arc | 43%
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| 5.How many lifeboats did the Titanic have? | 20 | 29%
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| 3.Who was Emiliano Zapata? | a revolutionary | 29%
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| 2. Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos? | Corazon Aquino | 29%
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| 13.Which two Asian countries are divided by the 38th parallel? | North and South Korea | 29%
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| 4.How long did it take to build the Titanic? | three years | 0%
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| 9.What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman? | Winston Churchill | 0%
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