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History by Alphabet - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 27 times
- The average score is 19 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution took place on this month in according to the Gregorian Calendar | N | November | 96%
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| This wartime leader won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 | C | (Winston) Churchill | 96%
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| What country was ruled by self acclaimed 'king of the Scots', Idi Amin | U | Uganda | 92%
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| This 1815 battle was the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte's attempted return to power | W | Waterloo | 92%
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| The largest wartime amphibious evacuation in history took place here in 1940 | D | Dunkirk | 88%
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| Australia fought a ferocious war with this flightless bird in 1932, and lost | E | Emu | 88%
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| Before his capture and execution, Atuahalpa was the last emperor of this Latin American empire | I | Inca | 88%
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| The creation of this new form of telecommunication was invented in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi | R | Radio | 88%
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| This Eastern European nation was founded after the First World War and led by famous communist Tito before it collapsed in 1991 | Y | Yugoslavia | 88%
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| This Middle Eastern nation was used to film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' at its Al-khazneh temple | J | Jordan | 85%
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| What was the last Chinese Imperial Dynasty | Q | Qing | 85%
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| This city was the capital of South Vietnam until it was captured by the Vietcong in 1975 | S | Saigon | 85%
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| What disease prevention method was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796? | V | Vaccination | 85%
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| Which civilisation was based around the city of Tenochtitlan? | A | Aztec | 81%
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| This pacific nation was united by King Kamehameha I in 1810, and made a US state in 1959 after its annexation | H | Hawai'i | 81%
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| What metal was commonly used in everyday commodities, which contributed to poisonings and shorter life spans? | L | Lead | 81%
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| This Chinese region was the location of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo from 1932-1945 and the homeland of the last Imperial Dynasty | M | Manchuria | 77%
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| This dictator rose to lead the Nationalists during the Spanish civil war, acting as dictator from 1939-1975 | F | Francisco Franco | 73%
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| This Russian revolutionary was murdered by an ice pick in Mexico City, 1940 | T | (Leon) Trotsky | 73%
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| Mobutu Sese Seko served as dictator of this African nation from 1965-1997 | Z | Zaire | 65%
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| This short-range wireless communication is named after the viking King of Denmark | B | Bluetooth | 54%
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| This Greek legendary hero was able to slay the gorgon Medusa | P | Perseus | 54%
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| Emperor of the Achaemenids during the Persian conflicts with Greece | X | Xerxes | 54%
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| Which knot was Alexander the Great famously able to cut? | G | Gordian | 46%
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| Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister that oversaw the Great Depression, World War II and the foundation of the United Nations? | K | (William Lyon MacKenzie) King | 15%
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| Both incredibly influential in the unification of Japan, who was Tokugawa Ieyasu's key ally that was assassinated in 1582? | O | Oda Nobunaga | 12%
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