| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First name of US president Eisenhower | (D)wight | 87%
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| The body part Lord Uxbridge lost at the Battle of Waterloo | (L)eg | 84%
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| Country formerly known as the Dutch East Indies | (I)ndonesia | 79%
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| The Byzantine empire’s successor which lasted from around 1299-1922 | (O)ttoman | 78%
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| Roman equivalent of Aphrodite | (V)enus | 70%
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| Explorer who, along with Clark, embarked on the ‘Corps of Discovery’ expedition in order to map and explore the western half of the US | (L)ewis | 67%
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| British monarch who abdicated in 1936 as a result of his desire to marry Wallis Simpson | (E)dward VIII | 66%
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| Roman name for London | (L)ondinium | 60%
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| Code name for the operation of the Allied invasion of Western Europe in 1944 | (O)verlord | 57%
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| The name for St Petersburg for 10 years until Lenin’s death | (P)etrograd | 50%
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| Two mathematicians independently discovered calculus. Newton and .... | (L)eibniz | 42%
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| First name of German General Ludendorff | (E)rich | 40%
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| COLONIAL NAME FOR AN AFRICAN CITY | Leopoldville | 35%
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