| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| First Roman Emperor | (A)ugustus | 82%
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| First name of Ronald Reagan’s wife | (N)ancy | 78%
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| City of ‘The Colossus’ one of the seven wonders of the ancient world | (R)hodes | 75%
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| Old name for Tokyo | (E)do | 71%
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| Soviet Premier of the first name Leonid | (B)rezhnev | 64%
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| Country formally known as Abyssinia | (E)thiopia | 60%
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| President of Yugoslavia from 1953-1980 | (T)ito | 60%
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| First name of president Van Buren, the eighth US president | (M)artin | 55%
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| Famous Egyptian pharaoh who led the Egyptians to victory in the Battle of Kadesh | (R)ameses II | 45%
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| Francis Drake sailed through this South American strait in his circumnavigation of the world 1577-1580 | (M)agellan | 42%
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| Battle of the First World War pronounced ‘eep’ | (Y)pres | 41%
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| Turkish strait shelled in the Gallipoli campaign | (D)ardanelles | 39%
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| Colonial name for Ghana | (G)old Coast | 39%
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| Island off of North Carolina that Raleigh attempted to colonise in 1585 | (R)oanoke | 29%
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| Country that ruled Zanzibar from 1698 to the early 1900s | (O)man | 28%
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| Author of ‘Down and out in Paris and London’ | (O)rwell | 26%
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| British colony from 1843-1910 containing Durban (half rhymes with cattle) | (N)atal | 23%
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| BRITISH GENERAL (FIRST AND LAST NAME) | Bernard Montgomery | 22%
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