| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1815 | Napoleon's final defeat | Battle of {Waterloo} | 90%
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| 1453 | Ottomans conquer their capital | Fall of {Constantinople} | 87%
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| 1066 | Everyone knows this one: Normans defeat Anglo-Saxons | Battle of {Hastings} | 85%
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| 1942-3 | Bloodiest battle in history, over 2 million deaths | Battle of {Stalingrad} | 85%
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| 480 BC | 300 Spartans (and some 6000 other Greeks) hold the Achaemenid invasion | Battle of {Thermopylae} | 79%
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| 732 | Franks under Charles Martel halt the Umayyad advance | Battle of {Tours} | 75%
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| 1415 | A great English victory against the French, immortalized by Shakespeare | Battle of {Agincourt} | 74%
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| 1683 | Ottomans' advance is halted | Second Siege of {Vienna} | 74%
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| 1805 | Napoleon's greatest victory | Battle of {Austerlitz} | 70%
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| 1915-6 | England and France fail to invade the Ottomans through this peninsula | Battle of {Gallipoli} | 70%
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| 1565 | Jean Parisot de Valette holds this island against the Ottomans, which earns him having the capital named after him | Great Siege of {Malta} | 70%
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| 9 | Germanic tribes under Ariminius smash three Roman legions | Battle of {Teutoburg Forest} | 62%
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| 331 BC | Alexander's greatest victory | Battle of {Gaugamela} | 59%
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| 1291 | Crusaders are expelled from the Holy Land for good | Fall of {Acre} | 54%
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| 1920 | Poland avoids conquest at their last stand | Battle of {Warsaw} | 52%
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| 1992-6 | This city is under siege from the first day of the war to the last | Siege of {Sarajevo} | 51%
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| 1274 BC | Egyptians and Hittites sign the first recorded peace treaty | Battle of {Qadesh} | 49%
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| 31 BC | Rome becomes an Empire | Battle of {Actium} | 48%
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| 486 | France wouldn't exist if Clovis had lost this one against Syagrius | Battle of {Soissons} | 11%
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| 1071 | Seljuks defeat the Byzantines and capture their emperor | Battle of {Mazinkert} | 3%
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