| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The ‘mad monk’ rumoured to have been having an affair with the Tsarina while Tsar Nicholas was out of Petrograd | (R)asputin | 86%
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| American president who served as Supreme Allied Commander in the Second World War from 1943-1945 | (E)isenhower | 84%
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| The first Queen of England | (M)ary I | 84%
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| The only Soviet Union leader that had ‘webbed feet’ | (S)talin | 81%
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| Indonesian volcano that erupted in 1883 | (K)rakatoa | 76%
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| The Norwegian explorer who beat Scott to the south pole | (A)mundsen | 65%
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| Tudor explorer often incorrectly credited with introducing potatoes to England from the New World | (R)aleigh | 54%
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| Former British Colony located entirely in Yemen | (A)den | 50%
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| House of King James I, Charles I, Charles II and James II | (S)tuart | 50%
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| The only major naval battle of the First World War | (J)utland | 48%
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| The Liberal British Prime minister who was elected in 1916 | (L)loyd George | 41%
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| Rockefeller’s oil company that was split after a ruling in the Supreme Court determined it was an illegal monopoly | (S)tandard Oil | 40%
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| Surname of ‘Mad Jack’ an English soldier who fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, a longbow and bagpipes | (C)hurchill | 27%
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| Roman emperor before Vitellius who succeeded Galba. The second emperor in the ‘year of the four emperors’ | (O)tho | 14%
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| EXPLORER | James Clark Ross | 11%
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