| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First name of South American liberator Bolívar | (S)imon | 88%
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| French General exiled to the island of St Helena in 1815 | (N)apoleon | 79%
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| Bloodiest D-day beach by casualties | (O)maha | 78%
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| Nobility rank of the man whom the Sandwich is named for | (E)arl | 74%
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| First name of Soviet Premier Khrushchev | (N)ikita | 71%
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| First name of US President Grant | (U)lysses | 71%
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| First name of Prime Minister Disraeli | (B)enjamin | 67%
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| Surname of the Viking who became the first European to land in North America | (E)rikson | 61%
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| The capital of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies before Italian Unification | (N)aples | 52%
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| Italian Nationalist whom a biscuit with currants is named after | (G)aribaldi | 42%
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| City of the first ‘Big Three’ conference in 1943 | (T)ehran | 42%
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| British protectorate that covered all the area that would become South Yemen | (A)den | 39%
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| Author of ‘The rise and fall of the Roman Empire’ | (G)ibbon | 30%
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| English city where the historic Mappa Mundi is held | (H)ereford | 29%
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| Roman Historian, author of ‘The Jewish War’ and ‘Antiquities of the Jews’ | (J)osephus | 29%
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| INVENTOR (FIRST NAME AND SURNAME) | Johannes Gutenberg | 23%
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| Surname of the British Lawyer who divided British India in 1947 | (R)adcliffe | 20%
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| Name of the ship, captained by Sir John Franklin that carried his crew on the doomed 1845 expedition to navigate the north-west passage | (E)rebus | 19%
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