| Hint | Former Country | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | This dual monarchy dissolved after WWI | Austria-Hungary | 93%
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| B | German monarchy based in Munich | Bavaria | 87%
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| C | Split peacefully in 1993 into a velvet pair of neighbors | Czechoslovakia | 80%
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| I | This massive South American empire was conquered by the Spanish in 1530 | Inca Empire | 73%
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| R | This Mediterranean empire ruled for 500 years | Roman Empire | 73%
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| Y | The Balkan federation founded on the concept of South Slavic Unity | Yugoslavia | 73%
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| K | This peninsula was occupied by Japan, and then split in two after WWII | Korea | 67%
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| M | This fearsome Central Asian empire stretched from Ukraine to the Pacific | Mongol Empire | 67%
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| N | Became a Canadian province in 1949 | Newfoundland | 67%
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| O | The "Sick Man of Europe" dissolved after World War I | Ottoman Empire | 67%
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| Q | The last imperial dynasty of China, which fell in 1912 | Qing Dynasty | 67%
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| T | Was its own country for nearly ten years before joining the United States | Texas | 67%
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| W | Annexed by the United Kingdom in the 1500s | Wales | 67%
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| Z | The short-lived People's Republic that unified with Tanganyika | Zanzibar | 67%
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| H | Its last monarch was Queen Liliʻuokalani | Hawai'i | 60%
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| P | Dominant state of the German Empire; abolished after WWII | Prussia | 60%
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| V | This Italian republic lasted 1,000 years before being dismembered by Napoleon | Venice | 60%
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| E | Communist state that reunified with its neighbor in 1990 | East Germany | 53%
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| U | Cold War superpower that dissolved into 14 nations in 1991 | USSR | 53%
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| S | Capitalist half that reunified after a bloody war in 1976 | South Vietnam | 40%
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| G | This expansive South American republic was founded by El Libertador | Gran Colombia | 20%
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| J | Sultanate at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula | Johor | 20%
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| X | This is a Chinese Bronze Age state ruled by the Ying family | Xu | 13%
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| D | Short-lived Napoleonic state located in what is now Poland | Duchy of Warsaw | 7%
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| F | An independent state absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1922 | Far East Republic | 0%
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| L | A confederation of territories that was dismantled by surrounding powers in the 1500s | Livonia | 0%
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