Statistics for History General Knowledge #17

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who failed to be admitted to art school in 1907 – forever changing the course of history?	Adolf Hitler	95%
What was the capital of the Ottoman Empire?	Constantinople	92%
In what year did the United States declare independence from Great Britain?	1776	87%
What became known as the "City of Light" in the late 1800s because of its early adoption of gas street lamps?	Paris	82%
Who was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom?	Margaret Thatcher	81%
What was the capital of Japan before Tokyo?	Kyoto	77%
What was the second richest country in the Americas in 1908, ahead of Canada and trailing only the United States?	Argentina	71%
What did the Brothers Grimm collect, organize, and publish?	Fairy tales	71%
From what city in France did British troops evacuate the European mainland in 1940?	Dunkirk	70%
What punishment did Vlad III of Wallachia inflict on his enemies?	{Impale}ment	68%
What Frankish ruler is known in German as "Karl der Große"?	Charlemagne	59%
Euclid is known as the "father" of what field of study?	Geometry	57%
What country controlled the state of Goa before India invaded and took it in 1961?	Portugal	57%
Who was the conquistador that overthrew the Aztec Empire?	Hernán Cortés	56%
What former African dictator gave himself the modest military rank of "colonel"?	Muammar Gaddafi	53%
What city on the Baltic Sea was built in the early 1700s – costing the lives of tens of thousands of laborers?	St. Petersburg	53%
What British citizen started a famous scholarship program and once had an African country named after him?	Cecil Rhodes	52%
What religious movement started from the teachings of Guru Nanak in the Punjab region around 1500 AD?	{Sikh}ism	51%
What became, in 1865, the last major peak in the Alps to be summitted?	The Matterhorn	51%
What Chinese city was declared a Special Economic Zone in 1980 – resulting in its population mushrooming from 30,000 then to over 17 million today?	Shenzhen	37%