| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered the New World | Christopher Colombus | 98%
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| WWII British prime minister | Wintson Churchill | 97%
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| Site of 1986 nuclear power plant explosion | Chernobyl | 95%
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| Period of tension between the Soviet Bloc and Western powers 1947-1991 | Cold War | 95%
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| Second-oldest university in the United Kingdom | University of Cambridge | 94%
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| His last words were: "Et tu, Brute?" | Julius Caesar | 93%
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| The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize | Marie Curie | 93%
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| Capital of the Ottoman Empire | Constantinople | 89%
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| Symbolic building of Rome | Colosseum | 88%
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| Former country in central Europe that split into two currently existing countries in 1993 | Czechoslovakia | 88%
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| King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor | Charlemagne | 86%
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| Region of Spain that declared independence in 2017 | Catalonia | 82%
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| Lord Protector of England | Oliver Cromwell | 73%
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| Author of detective stories who created the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple | Agatha Christie | 69%
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| Author of L'Étranger | Albert Camus | 40%
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