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Question	Answer	% Correct
What notorious leader had a similar style mustache to Charlie Chaplin?	Adolf Hitler	97%
What creature was often used for the medical treatment of bloodletting?	Leeches	87%
What type of craft was the Hindenburg?	Zeppelin	82%
Who was killed in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914?	Franz Ferdinand	81%
What composer died while composing a Requiem in 1791?	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	80%
What country was known as the CCCP in its own language?	USSR	74%
What English King fought in the Crusades and battled against Saladin?	Richard the Lionheart	71%
What facial hair style was made famous by American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside?	Sideburns	70%
What plant, imported from the New World, changed the face of Italian cooking?	Tomato	67%
What group, established after WWI, was a failed predecessor to the United Nations?	League of Nations	62%
What city did the Nazis besiege for 872 days but never capture?	Leningrad	62%
What country was personally owned (and abused) by King Leopold of Belgium?	D.R. Congo	61%
Who famously wore a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat on a fateful day in 1963?	Jackie Kennedy	60%
What Maoist economic program resulted in a famine that killed at least 20 million people?	{Great} {Leap} Forward	59%
What African country did Italy invade in 1935?	Ethiopia	56%
What industrialist became the world's first dollar billionaire - thanks to his monopoly on the US oil industry?	John D. Rockefeller	55%
What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle?	Bavaria	53%
What was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848?	Gold	50%
What was the de-facto state religion of the Achaemenid Persian empire? (hint: starts with Z)	Zoroastrianism	35%
What fur-trading company, founded in 1670, once owned about 1/3rd of Canada's land?	Hudson's Bay Company	29%