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| Late 19th century English serial killer. Infamous for multiple slaughters near London's Whitechapel neighborhood | Jack the Ripper | 85%
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| 19th century French Playwright known for Les Miserables & The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo | 77%
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| So-called mystic who aligned with Tzar Nick II. Allegedly able to heal Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to the throne | Rasputin | 72%
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| First democratically elected Russian president. Served from 1991 to December 1999 | Boris Yeltsin | 60%
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| American disco group famous for YMCA, Go West, and Macho Man | The Village People | 60%
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| 1960's NorCal serial killer known for cryptic notes. Never caught. | Zodiac Killer | 55%
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| 1066 battle in which William I defeated Harold II's Anglo-Saxon army. Led to the Norman conquest of England | Battle of Hastings | 51%
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| Opposite of nocturnal. Active during the day | Diurnal | 47%
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| Forest in England associated with Robin Hood | Sherwood Forest | 45%
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| American author who was the first African-American woman to win the fiction pulitzer. Famous for her novel 'The Color Purple' | Alice Walker | 43%
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| Civil War battle in Maryland that ended in Union victory. Stopped the confederacy's first invasion of the North. Bloodiest Day of the war | Battle of Antietam | 40%
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| Finland's northernmost region. Known for being the home of Santa Claus. Home of the Sami People | Lapland | 36%
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| Japanese prefecture and nuclear plant that experienced a devastating meltdown following a 2011 earthquake | Fukushima | 34%
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| Union general known for his hesitancy. Fired by Lincoln in 1862. Ran against him for the presidency in 1864 | George McClellan | 34%
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| 1980's Panamanian dictator overthrown by the US following a December 1989 invastion | Manuel Noriega | 34%
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| Largest Catholic Order. Headquartered in Rome. Known for missionary work and founding universities | Jesuit | 30%
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| Idaho's principal river. Tributary of the Columbia River. Famous for its Shoshone Falls, Hells Canyon, and its proximity to the city of Twin Falls | Snake River | 30%
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| Norwegian military officer who collaborated with Nazis during their occupation of Norway. Seen as a traitor | Vidkun Quisling | 28%
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| An immense fear of the sea/ ocean | Thalassophobia | 26%
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| 12th century military effort in which Richard the Lionheart and Phillip II of France tried to seize the Holy Land from Saladin | Third Crusade | 26%
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| Hitchcock film about an ad. exec. being chased by a spy. Starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason | North by Northwest | 23%
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| Prize awarded to the director of the best feature film at Cannes | Palme d'Or | 23%
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| German art school active from 1919-1933. Tried to unite design with functionality. Characterized by simple shapes and lines. | Bauhaus | 21%
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| Unknown prisoner of the Bastille who was jailed for 34 years. Written about by Dumas. Played by DiCaprio | Man in the Iron Mask | 21%
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| Missouri tributary that flows through Nebraska. Comes from the French word for 'flat' | Platte River | 21%
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| New Hampshire mountain range known for Mt Washington, Mt Adams, and Mt Jefferson | Presidential Range | 19%
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| River valley located in Oregon. Famous for its wine and being the destination of the Oregon Trail | Willamette Valley | 15%
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| Observatory located in a park of the same name in LA. Known for its views of the Hollywood Sign | Griffith Observatory | 13%
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| Small town in South Dakota famous for a massive annual motorcycle festival | Sturgis | 13%
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| Former Spanish, Mexican, and US military base. Currently a park near the Golden Gate Bridge | Presidio | 11%
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| Early 20th century NYC writer known for her contributions to Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. O'Henry award winner. Member of the National Civil Liberties Committee | Dorothy Parker | 9%
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| Spanish man who founded the largest order of catholicism in 1540 | Ignatius of Loyola | 9%
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| Group of NYC writers and critics who met from 1919-1929 for lunch in the hotel of the same name | Algonquin Roundtable | 6%
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| Inlet of Lake Huron. Separates the thumb of Michigan from the rest of the state | Saginaw Bay | 6%
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| California's largest lake. Formed following an irrigation accident that filled a nearby basin | Salton Sea | 6%
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| Northern Utah/ Southern Idaho mountain range. Part of the Rockies. Visible from Salt Lake City | Wasatch Range | 6%
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| Soviet physicist who helped developed their hydrogen bomb. Known for later advocating for human rights. Noble Peace Laureate | Andrei Sakharov | 4%
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| 1,000-year-old English tree Robin Hood would hang out by/ in. | Major Oak | 2%
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| 1162 truce that led to Christians being able to visit Jerusalem while keeping the city under Muslim control | Treaty of Jaffa | 2%
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