| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Once known as "The Great War" | World War I | 98%
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| Battle where Napoleon was defeated for good | Waterloo | 92%
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| Nixon's big political scandal | Watergate | 85%
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| City with the first Covid-19 outbreak | Wuhan | 85%
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| Inventors of the airplane | Wright Brothers | 84%
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| U.S. President during the above | Woodrow Wilson | 83%
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| Norman who conquered England in 1066 | William the Conqueror | 81%
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| City whose Jewish ghetto was razed in 1943 | Warsaw | 81%
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| German Kaiser during that same war | Wilhelm II | 77%
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| Name of the British royal family, since 1917 | House of {Windsor} | 74%
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| Place where English monarchs are crowned and buried | Westminster Abbey | 73%
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| Beverage whose origin can be traced to Georgia c. 6000 BC | Wine | 73%
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| Germany, from 1919–1933 | {Weimar} Republic | 67%
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| City burned by British troops in 1814 | Washington D.C. | 60%
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| Country conquered by Edward Longshanks in 1282 | Wales | 59%
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| German who composed "The Ring", a cycle of four operas | Richard Wagner | 57%
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| Former liberal political party of the U.S. and Great Britain | Whig | 57%
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| Scottish patriot drawn and quartered in 1305 | William Wallace | 54%
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| Irish writer who was jailed for having gay sex | Oscar Wilde | 52%
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| Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII | Cardinal {Wolsey} | 29%
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