| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Canal that opened in Egypt | Suez Canal | 92%
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| What the U.S. bought from Russia for just two cents an acre | Alaska | 90%
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| Book character who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare | Alice | 86%
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| Assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | 81%
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| City that built the first underground train network | London | 79%
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| The deadliest battle of the American Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg | 76%
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| Author of "Great Expectations" | Charles Dickens | 76%
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| City that ceased to be the capital of Japan | Kyoto | 76%
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| What Alfred Nobel invented | Dynamite | 74%
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| Author of "Das Kapital" | Karl Marx | 71%
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| Service that used horses to carry mail across the American west | {Pony} Express | 63%
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| Country that was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II | Italy | 56%
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| Mountain on the Swiss / Italian border that was climbed for the first time | The Matterhorn | 56%
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| South American country that lost nearly its entire military-age male population in a horrific war | Paraguay | 53%
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| Derogatory term that was applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons | {Carpet}bagger | 49%
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| Waltz by Johann Strauss II named after a European river | The Blue Danube | 45%
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| Country which was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian – a puppet of France | Mexico | 40%
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| Country in which 20 million died after a man proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus | China | 39%
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| Railroad that was completed by a golden spike in Utah | {Transcontinental} Railroad | 39%
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| Company that technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada | Hudson's Bay Company | 33%
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