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| This king and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were deposed and executed during the French Revolution. | Louis XVI | 86%
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| This Austrian neurologist founded The school of Psychoanalysis. | Sigmund Freud | 86%
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| This man became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland after leading the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War (1642-1651). | Oliver Cromwell | 71%
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| This man was an Emperor of Russia who established its navy as part of his ambitious westernization campaign, He also included introducing a beard tax. | Peter the Great | 71%
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| This man was a Spanish surrealist artist who painted The Persistence of Memory (1931). | Salvador Dali | 71%
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| This man was an English physicist who once served as Master of the Mint. He developed the laws of motion. | Isaac Newton | 64%
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| This British explorer achieved the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1770. | James Cook | 64%
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| This man was a Marxist revolutionary who organized the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. | Leon Trotsky | 57%
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| This man was a late-19th century Irish author and playwright whose works include The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). | Oscar Wilde | 57%
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| Charles Darwin developed his theory on evolution while observing finches on this island. | Galapagos Islands | 50%
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| Name the place that the previous man was assassinated in 1940 by an NKVD agent | Mexico City | 50%
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| This man was the last leader of the Soviet Union and oversaw its dissolution. | Mikhail Gorbachev | 50%
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| This company was a joint-stock company that controlled most of modern Indonesia. | Dutch East India | 43%
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| This man is one of the greatest warrior kings of England. He’s famous for his victory at the Battle of Agincourt . He’s also the title character of a Shakespeare play. | Henry V | 43%
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| This man wrote The Jungle Book. | Rudyard Kipling | 43%
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| The War of Spanish Succession (1701-1715) was triggered by the death of this spanish king's death, who died without an heir. | Charles II | 36%
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| This man was the third of the Five Good Emperors and nominated Antoninus Pius as a successor on the condition that Antoninus adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his own heirs | Hadrian | 36%
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| This German SS doctor who conducted medical experiments on the prisonersof Auschwitz. | Josef Mengele | 36%
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| This man was a Florentine artist who painted the Birth of Venus. | Sandro Botticelli | 36%
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| The European Parliament is located in this french city | Strasbourg | 36%
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| Name this eighteen centry war fought between Russia and Sweden, while Russia was under the previous man's leadership. This Russian won the decisive battle of Poltava during this war | Great Northern War | 29%
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| This man was the second of the Five Good Emperors, succeeding Nerva. The roman empire reached its maxium territory under this man. | Trajan | 29%
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| The Louvre glass pyramids were designed by this Chinese-American architect in 1984 | Ieoh Ming Pei | 21%
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| This ship was this Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). | HMS Victory | 14%
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| Name this period within the Roman Empire. It began with the reign of Augustus (63 BCE-15 CE) in 27 BCE until the death of Marcus Aurelius (121-180). | Pax Romana | 14%
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| In Norse mythology, this god is the “hall of the slain”, for those killed in combat. They will rise to fight with Odin against jottun when Ragnarok comes. | Valhalla | 14%
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| This organization declared the Louvre to be a museum in August, 1793. This revolutionary organization was formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General and eventually joined by some members of the First and Second Estates. | National Assembly | 7%
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