| Year | Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1503 | Leonardo __ _____ begins painting the Mona Lisa | Da Vinci | 99%
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| 1789 | George __________ is elected first president of the US | Washington | 93%
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| 1796 | ________ Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander | Napoleon | 92%
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| 1531 | The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church, with King _____ VIII as the head of the church | Henry | 91%
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| 1508 | ____________ begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling | Michelangelo | 91%
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| 1547 | ____ the Terrible is crowned as the first tsar of Russia | Ivan | 90%
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| 1773 | Boston ___ Party | Tea | 90%
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| 1687 | Isaac ______ publishes Principia Mathematica | Newton | 89%
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| 1776 | Declaration of ____________ is signed in Philadelphia | Independence | 88%
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| 1666 | The Great ____ of London | Fire | 86%
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| 1517 | The __________ Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses | Protestant | 85%
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| 1632 | The building of the ___ _____ begins in Agra, India | Taj Mahal | 85%
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| 1789 | Beginning of the ______ Revolution | French | 84%
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| 1636 | _______ University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts | Harvard | 80%
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| 1502 | First reported _______ slaves in the New World | African | 79%
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| 1769 | James ____ explores and maps New Zealand and Australia | Cook | 78%
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| 1611 | First publication of the King James _____ | Bible | 69%
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| 1787 | The United States ____________ is submitted to the states for ratification | Constitution | 69%
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| 1577 | Sir Francis _____ begins circling the world | Drake | 69%
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| 1605 | Guy Fawkes' _________ plot fails in England | Gunpowder | 67%
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| 1519 | Hernan ______ leads the Spanish conquest of Mexico | Cortes | 66%
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| 1564 | Birth of William ___________ | Shakespeare | 66%
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| 1512 | __________ proclaims the sun as the centre of the universe | Copernicus | 64%
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| 1756 | The _____ Years' War is fought among European powers | Seven | 62%
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| 1641 | Rene _________ publishes 'Meditations on First Philosophy' | Descartes | 60%
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| 1582 | Pope _______ XIII issues the Gregorian calendar | Gregory | 56%
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| 1532 | Francisco _______ leads the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire | Pizarro | 51%
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| 1665 | The Great ______ of London | Plague | 50%
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| 1663 | Robert Hooke discovers _____ using a microscope | Cells | 41%
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| 1569 | The ________ projection is published, a version of the world map | Mercator | 41%
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| 1721 | Robert _______ becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain | Walpole | 30%
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