| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| A fictional detective who lives on Baker Street in London | Sherlock Holmes | 96%
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| What river flows through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade? | Danube | 92%
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| The second oldest university in the world | University of Oxford | 91%
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| Roman combatants who fought animals or each other for people's entertainment | Gladiators | 88%
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| George Orwell's dystopian novel | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 85%
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| In what city were held the Summer Olympic Games in 1896? | Athens | 84%
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| Spanish general and the dictator of Spain (from 1939 to 1975) | Francisco Franco | 77%
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| An isolated language spoken in a region in Spain and France | Basque | 76%
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| The first artificial Earth satellite launched on 4 October 1957 | Sputnik 1 | 76%
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| Napoléon Bonaparte's birthplace | Ajaccio, Corsica | 74%
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| A citizen of Moscow | Muscovite | 70%
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| A sea between Greece and Turkey | Aegean Sea | 69%
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| Whose motto was "one for all, all for one"? | The Three Musketeers | 66%
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| What peninsula does Denmark lie on? | Jutland | 59%
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| P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballet that features the characters of Odette, Odile, and Rothbart? | Swan Lake | 55%
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| Where can you find barbary macaques, the only wild monkeys in Europe? | Gibraltar | 51%
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| Édith Gassion's nickname which meant "sparrow" and referred to her small height | Édith Piaf | 33%
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| Who abducted Europa in the guise of a bull? | Zeus | 32%
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| A monarch whose nickname was "Sisi" | Empress Elisabeth of Austria | 29%
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| The oldest university in the world | University of Bologna | 25%
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