| Questions | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 14) This queen was the 2nd wife of King Henry VIII, executed by beheadingfor treason | Anne Boleyn | 99%
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| 5) This girl and her Jewish family hid from the Nazisin a hidden annex in Amsterdam before capture | Anne Frank | 99%
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| 1) One of the first US astronauts to step on themoon in 1969, Neil _________ | Armstrong | 99%
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| 2) This ancient Egyptian city housed the worldslargest library | Alexandria | 92%
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| 6) The victorious powers of WW2: US, UK, and Russia | Allies | 91%
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| 4) The collective defeated powers of WW2: Germany, Italyand Japan | Axis | 91%
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| 8) This powerful empire ruled over Mexico until the Spanish capture in the 1500s, its capital was at Tenochtitlan | Aztec | 90%
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| 9) Macedon "great" king who ruled over the Greek empire and expandedits territory as far as India | Alexander the Great | 86%
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| 10) One of the most revered Greek philosophers and tutor of the above king | Aristotle | 85%
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| 22) This "inescapable" prison sits on an island in the middle of San Francisco bay,known for the famous break out of 1962 | Alcatraz | 84%
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| 17) This tall man, born in a log cabin in rural Kentucky in 1809, became 16thpresident of the US | Abraham Lincoln | 81%
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| 25) This aviation legend pioneered womens' advancement in piloting, her planedisappeared over the Pacific in 1937 | Amelia Earhart | 75%
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| 11) Spanish mission and fortress of the Mexican-American War in San Antonio, TX, now fondly remembered | Alamo | 69%
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| 18) This major US mountain chain stretches over 2000 miles from Georgia to the woods of Maine | Appalachian | 63%
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| 24) This mission was the first of the US astronauts to step on the moon in 1969 | Apollo 11 | 62%
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| 19) Famous Greek citadel dedicated to the goddess Athena, overlooking thecity of Athens | Acropolis | 57%
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| 3) Region of eastern France where an Allied victoryoccurred, from Nov 1944-March 1945 | Alsace | 50%
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| 13) Known now as Veterans Day, it was named this in commemoration of the firstWorld War ending | Armistice Day | 38%
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| 16) This term referred to the political and social movement to end slavery in the US. Frederick Douglass was a prominent pioneer of this. | Abolitionism | 35%
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| 15) Major Protestant communion formally founded in the UK in 1867, but datesback to the 16th century Church of England | Anglican | 34%
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| 7) This skirmish in western Maryland became the bloodiest singleday battle in the Civil War | Antietam | 31%
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| 23) Time period of the southern US between the War of 1812 and the outbreak of the Civil War | Antebellum | 30%
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| 21) This Egyptian god was the divine protector of the dead in the afterlife | Anubis | 27%
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| 12) 18th dynasty Egyptian pharaoh known for his radical religious reform | Akhenaten | 8%
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| 20) Ancient Mesopotamian civilization in modern day Iraq, known as one of thegreatest expansive empires in history | Assyrian Empire | 4%
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