Statistics for History by Letter - W

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Once known as "The Great War"	World War I	99%
Battle where Napoleon was defeated for good	Waterloo	94%
Nixon's big political scandal	Watergate	87%
Inventors of the airplane	Wright Brothers	87%
City with the first Covid-19 outbreak	Wuhan	87%
City whose Jewish ghetto was razed in 1943	Warsaw	85%
U.S. President during the above	Woodrow Wilson	85%
Norman who conquered England in 1066	William the Conqueror	83%
German Kaiser during that same war	Wilhelm II	80%
Name of the British royal family, since 1917	House of {Windsor}	78%
Place where English monarchs are crowned and buried	Westminster Abbey	77%
Beverage whose origin can be traced to Georgia c. 6000 BC	Wine	75%
Germany, from 1919–1933	{Weimar} Republic	70%
Country conquered by Edward Longshanks in 1282	Wales	64%
City burned by British troops in 1814	Washington D.C.	63%
Former liberal political party of the U.S. and Great Britain	Whig	63%
German who composed "The Ring", a cycle of four operas	Richard Wagner	62%
Scottish patriot drawn and quartered in 1305	William Wallace	60%
Irish writer who was jailed for having gay sex	Oscar Wilde	57%
Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII	Cardinal {Wolsey}	33%