16th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
J	1517	Holy city which fell to the Ottoman empire	Jerusalem	94%
B	1500s	Insulting nickname which Queen Mary of England was known by	{Bloody} Mary	93%
I	1547	Fearsome monarch who became the first tsar of all Russia	Ivan the Terrible	92%
L	1517	German monk who posted his 95 Theses	Martin Luther	90%
S	1564	Playwright born in Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare	90%
G	1582	Calendar introduced by the pope which is still used today	{Gregorian} Calendar	89%
O	1598	Type of musical performance which occurred for the first time, in Florence	Opera	89%
V	1530	Musical instrument which was invented in Italy	Violin	89%
D	1504	Sculpture finished by Michelangelo	David	87%
P	1553	Country who founded a colony in Macau that would last 446 years	Portugal	87%
A	1541	River explored by Francisco de Orellana	Amazon River	86%
U	1516	Book published by Thomas More which describes an ideal society	Utopia	85%
F	1500s	System of serfs and lords which had almost entirely died out in England by the end of the century	{Feudal}ism	83%
H	1543	Model of the solary system proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus	{Helio}centrism	80%
M	1519–22	Explorer who led the first circumnavigation of the globe, but died along the way	Ferdinand Magellan	78%
E	1529–43	Christian empire which Islamic armies from Somalia tried to conquer	Ethiopian Empire	76%
Y	1562	Peninsula where bishop Diego de Landa burned ancient Mayan texts	Yucatán	74%
Q	1534	Territory which Jacques Cartier claimed for France	Quebec	72%
K	1586	Region on the India/Pakistan border which was annexed by the Mughal Empire	Kashmir	70%
Z	1551-58	Branch of science whose first modern text, "Historiae animalium", was written by Conrad Gesner	Zoology	65%
C	1533	Incan capital captured by Francisco Pizarro	Cusco	58%
T	1521	Aztec capital captured by Hernán Cortés	Tenochtitlan	55%
X	1540	Jesuit missionary who was sent to Asia	St. Francis {Xavier}	54%
N	1555	French apothecary and seer who published "Les Propheties"	Nostradamus	51%
R	1509–11	Artist who painted "The School of Athens"	Raphael	50%
W	1515	Cardinal who was appointed Lord Chancellor of England	Thomas Wolsey	31%

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