| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Country that attacked Pearl Harbor | Japan | 100%
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| Unidentified serial killer in Victorian London | Jack the Ripper | 88%
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| Style of music which originated in New Orleans around 1900 | Jazz | 88%
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| Peasant girl who became a French military leader | Joan of Arc | 87%
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| City conquered by Crusaders in 1099 | Jerusalem | 83%
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| Stone used to make the burial suits of Chinese emperors | Jade | 81%
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| Term for a King's fool | Jester | 81%
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| Author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 77%
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| Last name of two different U.S. Presidents, both of whose predecessors were assassinated | Johnson | 76%
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| City on the island of Java formerly known as Batavia | Jakarta | 70%
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| King who commissioned a Bible in 1604 | King James I | 70%
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| Notable technology pioneer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011 | Steve Jobs | 69%
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| Sport in which Henry VIII was seriously injured | Jousting | 65%
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| Polish pope elected in 1978 | John Paul II | 63%
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| Calendar used in Europe between 45 BC–1582 AD | {Julian} Calendar | 59%
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| Napoleon's wife | Josephine | 53%
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| The largest naval battle of WWI, it happened off the coast of Denmark | Battle of {Jutland} | 47%
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| Roman client state led by King Herod | Judea | 37%
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| Byzantine emperor who reconquered Italy | Justinian | 36%
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| Elite soldiers who guarded the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Janissaries | 21%
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