| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Painter who chopped his ear off | Vincent Van Gogh | 92%
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| First female nobel prize winner | Marie Curie | 80%
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| Leader of Germany during the First World War | Wilhelm II | 80%
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| Famous Prussian king know as "the great" | Frederick the Great | 74%
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| Only NBA player to score 100 points in a single game | Wilt Chamberlain | 72%
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| Famous cruel Belgian ruler of the Congo | Leopold II | 71%
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| British Prime minister in 1938 with the same last name | Neville Chamberlain | 63%
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| A tutor to Alexander the Great and a student of Plato | Aristotle | 62%
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| These two rivers were defacto borders of the Roman Empire in the north across Europe | Danube | 57%
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| (The second river) | Rhine | 57%
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| The War of the Roses was fought between the English Lancaster and ____ dynasties | York | 53%
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| American General with numerous tanks named after him | William Tecumseh Sherman | 49%
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| Location of the first University founded in medieval Bohemia | Prague | 43%
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| The name of the railway that connects Western Russia to the Pacific Ocean | Trans-Siberian Railway | 41%
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| The ____ Empire dominated South East Asia from the 10th to the 13th centuries AD | Khmer | 39%
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| Polish Astronomer who proved Heliocentrism | Copernicus | 36%
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| Religion of the Sassanian Empire | Zoroastrianism | 35%
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| The Eye of _____ is a famous symbol of Ancient Egypt | Horus | 33%
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| What Triangular edifices in Ancient Egypt were NOT built by slaves | The Pyramids | 27%
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| The name of Marx's famous work on Capitalism | Das Kapital | 25%
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| Who the Great Pyramid at Giza was built for | Khufu | 22%
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| Battle where Octavian's navy defeated that of Marc Antony and Cleopatra | Actium | 21%
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| The final of the "rightly guided Caliphs" of the Rashidun Caliphate | Ali | 20%
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| The name of the steppe tribe who invaded and settled in modern day Hungary in the 9th Century AD | Magyars | 19%
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| Mughal Shah who had the Taj Mahal built | Shah Jahan | 18%
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| First Prime Minister of Canada | Sir John A Macdonald | 17%
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| The Architect who we attributed the design of the first (step) pyramid to | Imhotep | 16%
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| The final Western Roman Emperor | Romulus Augustulus | 16%
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| Greek playright who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex" | Sophocles | 16%
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| Often referred to as the inventor of the scientific method | Sir Francis Bacon | 15%
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