| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| City separated by a wall until 1989 | Berlin | 96%
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| Deaf German composer | Ludwig van Beethoven | 96%
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| Napoleon's last name | Bonaparte | 94%
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| City that had a "Tea Party" in 1773 | Boston | 92%
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| What came before the Iron Age | {Bronze} Age | 89%
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| Ancient city that supposedly had Hanging Gardens | Babylon | 88%
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| Often credited with inventing the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 84%
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| Prison stormed in the French Revolution | Bastille | 78%
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| Nickname for pirate Edward Teach | Blackbeard | 72%
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| Former name of Mumbai | Bombay | 69%
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| Germany's bombing of the UK during WWII | The Blitz | 69%
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| Pandemic caused by the Yersinia Pestis bacterium | Black Death | 68%
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| Russian faction that came to power in the October Revolution | Bolsheviks | 68%
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| Beheaded wife of Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn | 67%
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| Another name for Siddhārtha Gautama | Buddha | 67%
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| The Eastern Roman Empire | {Byzantine} Empire | 67%
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| Literary family of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte | Brontë | 64%
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| Modern-day capital near the site of the above | Baghdad | 63%
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| Abraham Lincoln's assassin | John Wilkes Booth | 59%
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| "Liberator" of South and Central America | Simón Bolívar | 59%
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| City where the Titanic was built | Belfast | 52%
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| Descendants of the Dutch settlers of South Africa | Boers | 49%
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| English scientist and statesman who shares his name with a type of meat | Francis Bacon | 45%
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| Celtic queen who led a revolt against the Romans | Boudica | 37%
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