| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were obliterated by the eruption of: | Vesuvius | 98%
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| ...which is the atomic number for: | Gold | 84%
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| ...who was famously imprisoned within the: | Tower of London | 78%
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| ...who typically spoke: | Old English | 77%
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| ...which is the fifth symbol in the: | Chinese Zodiac | 76%
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| ...which was the material that allegedly abounded in the mythical city of: | El Dorado | 74%
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| ...whose legend was perpetuated by English explorer: | Walter Raleigh | 71%
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| ...who was the last English monarch who was: | Anglo-Saxon | 70%
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| ...whose most famous eruption occurred in: | 79 | 68%
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| ...whose most important literature is usually regarded to be: | Beowulf | 68%
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| ...who interbred and probably caused the extinction of the: | Neanderthal | 68%
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| ...which was founded in the year: | 331 BCE | 67%
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| ...when Priscilla married: | Elvis | 66%
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| ...who had a mansion named: | Graceland | 66%
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| ...whose construction was ordered by: | William the Conqueror | 66%
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| ...whose ancient capital was replaced by the Hellenic city of: | Alexandria | 65%
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| ...who had a variant of the gene: | FOXP2 | 65%
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| ...which is located in: | Memphis | 65%
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| ...whose easternmost point on the mainland is the: | Horn of Africa | 64%
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| ...who, while victorious, still died in battle from wounds inflicted by: | A Dragon | 63%
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| ...which led to the virtual: | Obliteration of an Entire City | 63%
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| ...who soundly defeated: | Harold II | 62%
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| ...an example of which is the: | Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima | 61%
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| ...which is the place of origin for the species: | Homo sapiens | 60%
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| ...which is thought to be the gene that contributes to the development of: | Language | 59%
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| ...which was the ancient capital of: | Egypt | 56%
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| ...when the United States invaded Iraq for fear of: | WMDs | 53%
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| ...which is the Ancient Greek etymological origins of the: | Hippopotamus | 52%
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| ...the oldest recorded example of which is: | Sumerian | 52%
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| ...whose native range is most of: | Sub-Saharan Africa | 51%
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| ...which was the birthplace of: | Nebuchadnezzar II | 50%
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| ...which went under total Israeli control as a result of a short war in: | 1967 | 44%
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| ...which would be written in the Korean calendar as: | 2003 | 44%
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| ...which, in most of 2003, bore the branch of: | Water Horse | 43%
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| ...who led the destruction of: | Jerusalem | 41%
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| ...which is what was spoken in: | Uruk | 31%
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