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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Russia	What territory did Russia sell to the U.S. in 1867?	Alaska	92%
	What country colonized Brazil?	Portugal	90%
	In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?	1989	89%
	Who had children with both Mark Antony and Julius Caesar?	Cleopatra	88%
	What was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, seriously changing the Saudi economy?	Oil	88%
	What did Rio de Janeiro host in 2016?	Summer Olympics	88%
	Prior to 1917, what was the title of the leader of Russia?	Tsar	88%
	What country invaded Cuba in 1898, ending Spanish colonization?	United States	88%
	What city in Egypt was famous in ancient times for its library?	Alexandria	87%
	Who was born in Mecca in 570 AD?	Muhammad	87%
	What city was second to be struck by an atomic bomb?	Nagasaki	87%
	What naval base did Japan attack in 1941, bringing them into war against the U.S?	Pearl Harbor	87%
	What country was united with Norway from 1814 to 1905?	Sweden	87%
Egypt	What monumental structure is thought to have been built as a tomb for the pharoah Khufu?	The Great Pyramid	87%
	Who led Cuba from 1961 until 2008?	Fidel Castro	86%
	Who was famously killed by Brutus and other Senators?	Julius Caesar	86%
	What was France's currency before the Euro?	Franc	85%
	What Spanish king were the Philippines named after?	Philip II	85%
	What empire had its capital at Tenochtitlan?	Aztec	84%
	What city was supposedly home to the Hanging Gardens?	Babylon	84%
Greece	On what island was the Minoan civilization based?	Crete	84%
	What country was Austria merged with from 1867-1918?	Hungary	84%
	What system of racial discrimination was ended in the early 1990s?	Apartheid	83%
	What island group did Argentina invade in 1982?	Falkland Islands	83%
	Whose assassination was Serbia blamed for in 1914?	Franz Ferdinand	83%
	Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?	Michelangelo	83%
China	On what river did Chinese civlization first begin?	Yellow River	83%
	What European power colonized Cambodia?	France	82%
	What disaster struck London in 1666?	Great Fire of London	82%
	What island did China cede to Great Britain as a result of the Opium Wars?	Hong Kong	82%
	Who led the Indian independence movement against Britain?	Mahatma Gandhi	82%
	Who supposedly nailed 95 theses to a church door?	Martin Luther	82%
	What city-state bested Athens in the Peloponnesian War?	Sparta	82%
Netherlands	What flower was the center of a famous investment bubble in the 1600s?	Tulip	82%
	What country invaded Indonesia in 1941?	Japan	81%
	Vikings from Norway were the first Europeans to reach Vinland. In what modern-day country would you find Vinland?	Canada	80%
	What series of conflicts involved European efforts to capture the Holy Land?	Crusades	80%
	What were women allowed to legally do for the first time in 2018?	Drive	80%
	What European power briefly occupied Ethiopia in the 1930s?	Italy	80%
South Africa	What country originally colonized the Cape of Good Hope?	Netherlands	80%
	What empire controlled the coastal regions of Saudi Arabia from the 16th century until WWI?	Ottoman Empire	80%
	What country did Iran fight a war against from 1980-1988?	Iraq	79%
	What partially-recognized country seceded from Serbia in 2008?	Kosovo	79%
	What award has been given out in Norway to people such as Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa since 1901?	Nobel Peace Prize	79%
	What was placed in Cuba in 1962, sparking a crisis?	Nuclear Missiles	79%
	Who was the teacher of Aristotle?	Plato	79%
	What bird did Australia fight a "war" against in 1932?	Emus	78%
Israel	In what town did Jesus grow up?	Nazareth	78%
Argentina	Which element did the Spanish name Argentina after?	Silver	78%
Japan	What religion was introduced to the country in 538 A.D.?	Buddhism	77%
	What country did Iraq invade in 1990?	Kuwait	77%
Mexico	What civilization's cities included Tikal and Yaxchilan?	Maya	77%
Cuba	What style of music, whose name means "sauce" in Spanish, is based on Cuban traditions?	Salsa	77%
	What wind-powered device was used by the Dutch to drain wetlands and greatly expand the land area of the country?	Windmill	77%
	What nation declared independence from Pakistan in 1971?	Bangladesh	76%
Germany	What river was generally considered the boundary between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes?	Rhine River	76%
	What world famous painter was born in the Netherlands in 1853?	Vincent Van Gogh	76%
	Who became the world's first psychoanalyst in 1886?	Sigmund Freud	75%
	What country invaded and occupied Cambodia in 1979?	Vietnam	75%
	What destroyed much of Tokyo in 1923?	Earthquake	74%
Peru	What animal was domesticated in Peru around 5000 BC?	Llama	74%
	What war caused the downfall of the Ottoman Empire?	WWI	74%
	What did Johannes Gutenberg invent?	Printing Press	73%
	What Argentinian fought in the Cuban Revolution and met his end in Bolivia in 1967?	Che Guevara	72%
	What philospher's sayings are collected in the "Analects"?	Confucius	72%
France	What was the Roman name for France?	Gaul	72%
	What leader had millions killed in Cambodia by mass killings or malnutrition in the seventies?	Pol Pot	72%
	What Portuguese-speaking country gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002?	East Timor	71%
	Who was dictator of Spain from 1939 until 1975?	Francisco Franco	71%
	What footballer was born in 1940 as Edson Arantes do Nascimento?	Pelé	71%
	What country did Turkish troops enter in 2019?	Syria	71%
	Who was the Kaiser of Germany during WWI?	Wilhelm II	71%
	Who gave the Gettysburg Address?	Abraham Lincoln	70%
Austria	What royal house controlled Austria for most of its existence?	Hapsburg	70%
India	In what language were most important Hindu scriptures written?	Sanskrit	70%
	What British explorer charted maps of Eastern Australia?	James Cook	69%
	What river was established as the U.S-Mexico border after the Mexican-American War?	Rio Grande	69%
	What Adriatic port city once controlled Crete, Cyprus, and parts of Crimea?	Venice	69%
	In 2010, what series of protests spread to Egypt, forcing the president to resign?	Arab Spring	68%
Australia	What type of curved stick was used by Aboriginal Australians to hunt small prey?	Boomerang	68%
Pakistan	Along what river did civilization in Pakistan first develop?	Indus River	68%
	What term refers to the hereditary military nobility of medieval Japan?	Samurai	68%
	What kingdom did Shaka rule?	Zulu Kingdom	68%
	Who was the top U.S. commander in Europe during WWII?	Dwight D. Eisenhower	67%
Spain	Who was the wife of Ferdinand II?	Isabella I	67%
Iraq	What term refers to the Cradle of Civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?	Mesopotamia	67%
	Who painted "Guernica" a depiction of a bombing that happened during the Spanish Civil War?	Pablo Picasso	67%
	What three letter word ending in J refers to the period of British rule in India and Pakistan?	Raj	67%
	What peninsula did Israel annex in 1967 but return in 1982?	Sinai Peninsula	67%
	What North American city did the Dutch cede to the English in 1664?	New Amsterdam	66%
	In what city did Allied leaders meet to make plans for WWII in 1943?	Casablanca	65%
Italy	What northern region takes its name from the Etruscans, who lived in the area before the Romans?	Tuscany	65%
	What empire was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453?	Byzantine Empire	64%
	Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?	Charles Dickens	64%
Philippines	What Portuguese explorer died in the Philippines during the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1521?	Ferdinand Magellan	64%
United Kingdom	Who is the most famous conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot?	Guy Fawkes	64%
	What killed over 1 million Ethiopians in the early 1980s?	Famine	62%
	What khan conquered China in 1279?	Kublai Khan	62%
	What was the original purpose of the Taj Mahal?	Mausoleum	62%
	In 1687, what Greek monument was severely damaged by an explosion?	Parthenon	62%
	What territory declared its independence from Morocco in 1979?	Western Sahara	62%
	In what city, starting with F, was a madrassa founded in 859 AD that some people call the world's oldest university?	Fez	61%
	What M word refers to the Northern African people who conquered Spain?	Moors	61%
	Who was the leader of Yugoslavia from 1953-1980?	Josip Broz Tito	60%
Cambodia	What empire ruled Cambodia from the 9th to 15th centuries?	Khmer Empire	60%
	What was the last Chinese dynasty?	Qing Dynasty	60%
	What group of people did the British go to war with in 1880 and 1899?	Boers	59%
Canada	What Viking famously settled in Eastern Canada around 1000 AD?	Leif Erikson	59%
	What Portuguese explorer reached India by going around Africa?	Vasco Da Gama	59%
	What country did Peru fight against in the War of the Pacific?	Chile	58%
	On what island was Spain's first permanent settlement in the New World?	Hispaniola	58%
Serbia	What ethnic group migrated into the Balkans (and also Russia) from the 5th to 10th century A.D.?	Slavs	58%
	On what tiny island in the Atlantic did Napoleon die?	St. Helena	58%
	What was the most important city in Greece during the Middle Ages? (Hint: It starts with T)	Thessaloniki	58%
	What group raided Baghdad in 1258?	Mongols	57%
	What saint helped convert the area to Christianity, and is the namesake of the alphabet used by many Eastern European countries?	St. Cyril	57%
	Who wrote "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"?	Victor Hugo	57%
	Which Roman emperor moved the capital of the empire to Turkey?	Constantine	56%
	What British dominion joined Canada in 1949?	Newfoundland	56%
	What was the title of the Iranian monarch prior to the 1979 revolution?	Shah	56%
	What religion, started in the 15th century, teaches its followers to wear five items, including a small knife?	Sikhism	56%
Brazil	What cash crop was, by the mid-16th century, Brazil's most important export?	Sugar	56%
	What German general's advance into Egypt was halted at El Alamein in 1942?	Erwin Rommel	54%
	What was the first country to secede from the USSR?	Lithuania	54%
United States	What religious group first settled Pennsylvania?	Quakers	54%
	During what war did the U.S. capture the city of Toronto, then known as York?	War of 1812	54%
	Who was the first president of the Russian federation?	Boris Yeltsin	53%
	Which Argentinian first lady was nicknamed "Evita"?	Eva Peron	53%
	What spice, starting with N, did Dutch traders export from Indonesia?	Nutmeg	53%
	What was the capital of the Inca Empire?	Cusco	52%
	What northern city was hit by Japanese air raids during WWII?	Darwin	52%
	What U.S. general fled the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, but returned two years later?	Douglas MacArthur	52%
	What was the last Muslim city in Spain?	Granada	52%
	What building was destroyed by the Romans 70 AD?	Second Temple	52%
	In which state was the first battle of the American Revolution fought?	Massachusetts	51%
	Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?	Maximilien Robespierre	51%
	What Thomas Edison invention was a predecessor to the record player?	Phonograph	51%
	What war did Great Britain fight against France between 1756 and 1763?	Seven Years War	51%
Iran	What was the most popular religion in Iran prior to Islam?	Zoroastrianism	50%
Ethiopia	What was Ethiopia known as prior to the 1600s?	Abyssinia	49%
Saudi Arabia	According to the Quran, what cubic black structure was built by Abraham and Ishmael?	Kaaba	48%
Turkey	What city in Turkey was supposedly destroyed in 1180 BC?	Troy	48%
	And what was the capital of the above empire?	Angkor	47%
	What Norwegian explorer was the first person to reach the South Pole?	Roald Amundsen	47%
	What was Australian prime minister Harold Holt doing when he disappeared in 1967?	Swimming	47%
	What was the term for Austria's merger into Germany in 1938?	Anschluss	46%
	What Spaniard conquered most of Peru?	Francisco Pizarro	46%
Indonesia	What "upright" hominid species inhabited Indonesia as far back as two million years ago?	Homo erectus	46%
Morocco	What seafaring people established the city of Tangier before 800 BC?	Phoenicians	46%
	Who was Prime Minister when Britain voted to leave the EU?	David Cameron	45%
	What was the name of the Australopithecus skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974?	Lucy	44%
Norway	What four-letter word is the term for an oral history of the Norse people?	Saga	44%
	What legendary sailor of the seven seas hailed from Basra?	Sinbad	44%
	Who was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974?	Haile Selassie	42%
	Name one of the three Arab caliphates which ruled Iran.	Rashidun, Umayyad, or Abbasid	42%
	What telegram was sent to Mexico in 1917 in an attempt to convince them to invade the U.S?	Zimmerman Telegram	42%
	Who was the first "Great" emperor of Persia?	Cyrus the Great	41%
	What appeared in the skies over Chelyabinsk in 2013?	Meteor	41%
	What scientific device was greatly improved by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?	Microscope	41%
	What word refers to an Israeli agricultural commune?	Kibbutz	39%
	What currency was introduced in 1994 as part of a successful campaign to stop hyperinflation?	Real	39%
	What political party has dominated South Africa since 1994?	African National Congress	35%
	Who, in 1611, explored much of Northern Canada while seeking the Northwest Passage?	Henry Hudson	35%
	What notorious Nazi was captured by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960?	Adolf Eichmann	34%
	Who was the dictator of the Philippines from 1972-1981? (hint: his wife had a large shoe collection)	Ferdinand Marcos	33%
	Who was the only woman to rule the Austrian empire?	Maria Theresa	33%
	Near what small town was Leonardo born?	Vinci	33%
	Who was dictator of Cuba before that?	Fulgencio Batista	29%
	Who was Pakistan's only female Prime Minister?	Benazir Bhutto	26%
	Who was the first president of Indonesia?	Sukarno	22%
	What volcano lowered global temperatures when it erupted in 1991?	Mount Pinatubo	19%
	What was the first empire to unite India?	Maurya Empire	17%
	What Japanese-Peruvian President helped defeat Shining Path terrorists but was convicted of crimes against humanity?	Alberto Fujimori	15%
	Who was the Canadian Prime Minister during World War II?	Mackenzie King	11%
	What priest is often considered to be the father of the Mexican nation?	Miguel Hidalgo	11%

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