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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1 CE - 399 CE	Who was said to have been born on December 25th in Bethlehem?	Jesus Christ	85%
	What is the Egyptian God of the Sun?	Ra	83%
	What structure was built in 3000 BCE in England?	Stonehenge	82%
	What city was famous for hanging gardens?	Babylon	79%
	What was the world's first democracy?	Athens	78%
	Who supposedly founded Rome with his brother Remus?	Romulus	77%
	What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"?	{Ivan} the Terrible	75%
	What volcano destroyed Pompeii?	Mount Vesuvius	75%
	What is the oldest university in England	Oxford	74%
	Who started the Protestant Reformation?	Martin Luther	73%
	What country had conquered most of Asia by 1244?	Mongols	73%
	What was ancient Egypt's substitute for paper?	Papyrus	72%
	Who was the norse god of thunder?	Thor	72%
	What is Siddhartha Gautama better known as?	Buddha	71%
	What language was the Torah written in?	Hebrew	71%
1400 CE - 1599 CE	What woman led France to win the 100 years war?	Joan of Arc	71%
	What city had a famous "Tea Party" in 1773?	Boston	70%
	Who explained the Three Laws of Motion?	Isaac Newton	70%
	Who "Fiddled while Rome burned"?	Nero	70%
	What insect was domesticated by the Egyptians?	Bee	69%
	What structure, built by the Ming dynasty, is 8,500 km long?	Great Wall of China	69%
	Who sculpted the statue of David?	Michelangelo	69%
	What cathedral's construction began in Paris in 1163?	Notre Dame	69%
	What Chinese philosopher developed the 100 Schools of Thought?	Confucius	68%
	On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin?	Great Britain	68%
	Who led his elephants across the alps?	Hannibal	68%
10,000 BCE - 1 BCE	In what region was the world's first civilization in?	Mesopotamia	68%
	What country conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines?	Ottoman Empire	68%
	Who was the first Roman Emperor?	Augustus	67%
	What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s?	Dodo Bird	67%
	What group of nomadic peoples was led by Atilla?	Huns	67%
	What city burned down in 1666?	London	67%
	In what city was Muhammad born?	Mecca	67%
	What island was settled by vikings in 874?	Iceland	66%
	Who founded the Academy at Athens?	Plato	66%
	What country colonized Angola?	Portugal	66%
	Who discovered Jupiter's moons?	Galileo	65%
	What European explorer famously met with Kublai Khan?	Marco Polo	65%
	What empire was conquered by Alexander the Great?	Persia	65%
1000 CE - 1399 CE	What is the name of the plague that caused the Black Death?	{Bubonic} Plague	64%
	What was the Roman name for France?	Gaul	63%
	What African island was discovered by the Malay?	Madagascar	63%
	What empire was ruled by Moctezuma?	{Aztec} Empire	62%
1850 CE - 1899 CE	Who developed the Theory of Evolution?	Charles Darwin	62%
	What was the Flavian Amphitheater better known as?	Colosseum	62%
	What city did the Renaissance begin in?	Florence	62%
	What is the oldest college in the United States?	Harvard	62%
	What river in Pakistan hosted one of the earliest societies?	Indus	62%
	Who invented the Printing Press?	Johannes Gutenberg	62%
	Who developed Communism?	Karl Marx	62%
	What crop was severely damaged in Ireland in 1845?	Potato	62%
	What animal went extinct on a Siberian Island in 1650 BC?	Wooly Mammoth	62%
	What battle was Napoleon's downfall?	Battle of {Waterloo}	61%
	What country had nuclear missiles placed in it in 1962?	Cuba	61%
	What pharaoh's tomb was discovered completely intact in 1922?	Tutankhamun	61%
	What was the home of Louis XIV?	Versailles	61%
	What U.S territory was purchased from Russia?	Alaska	60%
	What queen of France was Austrian born?	Marie Antoinette	60%
	What island was home to an ancient "Colossus"?	Rhodes	60%
	What was the use of the Bastille before it was stormed?	Prison	58%
	What city was the Temple of Solomon built in?	Jerusalem	57%
	What country broke into civil war between Republicans and Nationalists in 1936?	Spain	57%
	What large ship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912?	Titanic	57%
	What city was burned from the inside by Greeks in 1200 BCE?	Troy	57%
1900 CE - 1949 CE	What was the most populous country in the world in 1900?	{British} Empire	56%
	What game was invented in India, then adapted by the Muslim world?	Chess	56%
	Who is the founder of Judaism?	Abraham	55%
	Who was the first king of the Holy Roman Empire?	Charlemagne	55%
	Who led the gunpowder plot?	Guy Fawkes	55%
1800 CE - 1849 CE	Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?	Ludwig Van Beethoven	55%
	Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?	Franz Ferdinand	54%
	Where was William the Conquerer from?	Normandy	54%
	Who invented the telephone?	Alexander Graham Bell	53%
	Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon?	Isabella	53%
	Who fought the War of the Roses against Lancaster?	York	53%
	Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	52%
	Who signed the Magna Carta?	King John	52%
	What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics?	Rosetta Stone	52%
	What disease killed most of the Inca?	Smallpox	52%
1950 CE - 1999 CE	What was the period of tensions between the U.S and U.S.S.R called?	Cold War	51%
	What economic event began in 1929?	Great Depression	50%
	What was the second North American country to gain independence?	Haiti	50%
	What country was known as Joseon?	Korea	50%
	Who led the the Indian independence movement against the British?	Mahatma Gandhi	50%
	What ancient people built a civilization on Crete?	Minoan	50%
	What temple was dedicated to all Roman Gods?	Pantheon	50%
	What was the former name of Thailand?	Siam	50%
	Who painted the "Starry Night"?	Vincent van Gogh	50%
	What was the largest church in Constantinople?	Hagia Sophia	49%
	What period of human history means "New Stone Age"	Neolithic	49%
	What Austrian Neurologist famously studied dreams?	Sigmund Freud	48%
	Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence?	Simon Bolivar	48%
	What was the largest of the Phoenician colonies?	Carthage	47%
	Where did James Cook die?	Hawaii	47%
	What was Adolf Hitler's autobiography?	Mein Kampf	47%
	What was the name given to the flu outbreak of the 1910s?	Spanish Flu	47%
	What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra?	Taj Mahal	47%
	What explorer found a route from Portugal to India?	Vasco de Gama	47%
	Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?	Amelia Earhart	46%
	What was Britain given as a result of the Opium Wars?	Hong Kong	45%
	What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?	Eiffel Tower	44%
	What country fought against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War?	Israel	44%
	What empire built Angkor Wat?	Khmer	44%
	What boxer famously said "I am the greatest"	Muhammad Ali	44%
	What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States?	Slavery	44%
	What modern country did Christopher Columbus land in?	Bahamas	43%
	What modern Asian country was annexed by the United States?	Philippines	43%
	Where was the worst nuclear power disaster in history?	Chernobyl	42%
	What was the tallest building in the world in 1940?	Empire State Building	42%
	What bird did Australia declare war on?	Emu	42%
	What system had serfs borrowing land from lords in exchange for military service?	Feudalism	42%
	What organization of countries was formed in the aftermath of WWI?	League of Nations	42%
	Who was the first female British Prime Minister?	Margaret Thatcher	42%
	In what city were Nazi war criminals prosecuted?	Nuremburg	42%
	What was invented in China using magnets around 200 BCE?	Compass	41%
	Who was emperor of Japan in WWII?	Hirohito	41%
	What king of Mali was said to be the richest man in history	Mansa Musa	41%
	Who was the first U.S Secretary of State?	Thomas Jefferson	41%
	Who invented dynamite?	Alfred Nobel	40%
1600 CE - 1799 CE	What was the first British colony in North America?	Jamestown	40%
	Who was the "Blonde Bombshell"?	Marilyn Monroe	40%
	Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?	Maximilien Robespierre	40%
	What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s?	Venice	40%
	What islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?	Falkland Islands	39%
	What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad?	Harriet Tubman	39%
	Who discovered Polonium?	Marie Curie	39%
	What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul?	Orient Express	39%
	What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations?	Prague	39%
	What was the largest German state when Germany was united?	Prussia	39%
	What was the system of segregation in South Africa before 1991?	Apartheid	38%
	What country was led by Maria Theresa?	Austria	38%
	Who played "The Tramp" in early silent films?	Charlie Chaplin	38%
	Who brought the Byzantine Empire to its greatest area?	Justinian	38%
	What Egyptian queen only worshipped the sun?	Nefertiti	38%
	What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray?	Nikola Tesla	38%
	Where was Roald Amundsen the first to reach?	South Pole	38%
	What country gained independence from China in 1355?	Tibet	38%
	What country was the border between Russia and British India?	Afghanistan	37%
	What city was known as Saigon?	Ho Chi Minh City	37%
	What British officer famously helped in the Arab Revolt?	T.E Lawrence	37%
	Who became supreme leader of North Korea in 2009?	Kim Jong il	36%
	Which religious branch was founded by Joseph Smith?	Mormonism	36%
	Who was the drummer for the Beatles?	Ringo Starr	36%
	What city was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906?	San Francisco	36%
	What war was fought between the U.S and Canada	War of 1812	36%
	What was the name for the U.K's decision to leave the E.U?	Brexit	35%
	What is Eli Whitney's most famous invention?	Cotton Gin	35%
	In what Greek city-state were the ancient olympics held?	Olympia	35%
2000 CE - Present	What building in Washington D.C was attacked on 9/11?	Pentagon	35%
	What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?	Richmond	35%
	Who was declared the "Enemy of Christianity" in the third crusade?	Saladin	35%
	What Native American tribe was forced through the Trail of Tears?	Cherokee	34%
	Who won four gold medals at the 1936 olympics?	Jesse Owens	34%
	What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia?	Krakatoa	34%
	What country gained independence from Spain in 1573?	Netherlands	34%
	What was the first country to give women the right to vote?	New Zealand	34%
	Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"?	Richard Wagner	34%
	Who was the world's first billionaire?	John D. Rockefeller	33%
	Who killed John F. Kennedy?	Lee Harvey Oswald	33%
	What British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat?	Lusitania	33%
	Who was killed by U.S Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011?	Osama Bin Laden	33%
	What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755?	Lisbon	32%
	Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?	Mikhail Gorbachev	32%
	What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower?	Plymouth	32%
	Who led Iraq through the Gulf War?	Saddam Hussein	32%
	Who was the first man in space?	Yuri Gagarin	32%
	What peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014?	Crimea	31%
	Who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition?	Sacagawea	30%
	Where was the Alhambra built?	Granada	29%
	What African country, other than Ethiopia, avoided European Colonization?	Liberia	29%
	What was the country of the pope?	Papal States	29%
	What city was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime?	El Dorado	28%
	Who invented the modern steam engine?	James Watt	28%
	What was the first country to gain independence from Yugoslavia?	Slovenia	27%
	Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest	Edmund Hillary	26%
	What event caused the overthrow of many Middle Eastern governments?	Arab Spring	25%
	What was Mao Zedong's plan for the population of China?	Great Leap Forward	25%
	Who was the Great Pyramid of Giza built for?	Khufu	25%
	What man is credited with building the Panama Canal?	Theodore Roosevelt	24%
	What was the dominant empire in West Africa in 400 A.D?	Ghana	22%
	What Portuguese territory was given up in 1999?	Macau	22%
	What country conquered Songhai?	Morocco	22%
	What was the most important port of New France?	New Orleans	22%
	In what battle did the Franks stop the spread of Islam in Europe?	Battle of {Tours}	21%
	What was the first empire to unite India	{Maurya} Empire	21%
	What was the title of the leader of the Mughal Empire?	Sultan	21%
	What country broke apart in the Velvet Divorce?	Czechoslovakia	20%
	In what city was the first airplane flown?	Kitty Hawk	20%
	What was the first country to declare independence from the USSR?	Lithuania	20%
	What island was seriously devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017?	Puerto Rico	18%
	On what holiday did a tsunami strike Indian Ocean countries in 2004?	Boxing Day	17%
	Who developed the Scientific Method?	Francis Bacon	17%
	Who won the War of the Pacific?	Chile	16%
	What region was the Seven Years war fought over?	{Ohio} Valley	16%
	What Greek developed the best known geocentric model?	Ptolemy	16%
	What was Shakespeare's first play?	Henry VI	14%
	What was the Chelyabinsk Object?	Meteor	12%
400 CE - 999 CE	What was the largest city of the Maya?	Tikal	10%
	What was the last European Colony in Africa?	Zimbabwe	10%
	What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer"?	Mount {Tambora}	9%

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