| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| He was looking for India but found America instead | Christopher Columbus | 98%
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| "War" between the USA and the USSR | {Cold} War | 96%
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| The last pharaoh, and a rare female one | Cleopatra | 94%
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| Rome's largest amphitheatre | Colosseum | 91%
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| "ism" promoted by Karl Marx | {Commun}ism | 91%
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| British PM, 1940–1945 | Winston Churchill | 89%
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| Site of a 1986 nuclear disaster | Chernobyl | 88%
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| He met his end on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 87%
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| Drug used by Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes | Cocaine | 83%
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| Medieval Christian attempts to capture the Holy Land | The {Crusades} | 82%
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| Capital of the Byzantine Empire | Constantinople | 81%
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| Country devastated by Pol Pot | Cambodia | 79%
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| "Great Sage" of Chinese philosophy | Confucius | 69%
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| Polish-French discoverer of Polonium | Marie Curie | 69%
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| Ancient rival of Rome located in modern-day Tunisia | Carthage | 66%
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| African city established as a Dutch supply station | Cape Town | 65%
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| Great king of the Franks from 768–814 | Charlemagne | 64%
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| Astronomer who posited that the Earth revolves around the sun | Nicolaus Copernicus | 60%
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| British explorer who died in Hawaii | James Cook | 59%
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| Group whose priests were called druids | Celts | 58%
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| French theologian for whom a branch of Christianity is named | John Calvin | 41%
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| Eli Whitney's invention | Cotton Gin | 40%
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