| Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Former president of Uganda who committed a number of atrocities | Idi Amin | 71%
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| Soviet leader after Khrushchev who led for 18 years | Leonid Brezhnev | 71%
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| Leader of the Soviet Union that led the de-Stalinization effort | Nikita Khrushchev | 65%
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| Russian film director that did silent films and historical films | Sergei Eisenstein | 41%
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| Eisenstein film about a group of sailors mutinying which helped the communist revoltuion | Battleship Potemkin | 29%
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| German politician who created communist East Germany | Erich Honecker | 29%
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| Prince of Kiev who started the Russian Empire | Alexander Nevsky | 18%
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| Tsar of Russia who had a drama written about him by Pushkin | Boris Godunov | 18%
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| Icelandic saga which follows the family of Egil | Egil's Saga | 18%
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| Wealthy ruler who would become queen of France and England | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 18%
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| Moroccan explorer who traveled across most of the medieval world | Ibn Battuta | 18%
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| Figureskater who won gold medals at the Olympics in 1992 | Kristi Yamaguchi | 18%
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| The largest of the four caliphates of Mohammed's death | Umayyad Caliphate | 18%
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| Rebellion of soldiers who protested the ruling of Nicholas I | Decembrist Revolt | 12%
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| Mongol founded region which eventually ruled itself and became Turkish | Golden Horde | 12%
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| Russian abstract painter who had works like "Black Square" | Kazimir Malevich | 12%
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| Best known for her works in science fiction like "The Left Hand of Darkness" | Urusula K. Le Guin | 12%
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| Female ruler of China in the Zhao dynasty | Wu-Zetian | 12%
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| Major battle during the Pugachev revolt that saw the rebels defeat government soldiers | Battle of Kazan | 6%
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| Suffrage leader who ran for President in 1872 | Victoria Woodhall | 6%
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