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Question	Answer	% Correct
To what country were 165,000 British convicts "transported" from 1787–1867?	Australia	93%
What country was formerly known as Siam?	Thailand	86%
What country's civil war was depicted in Picasso's painting "Guernica"?	Spain	84%
What 1969 music festival in upstate New York is sometimes considered to be the zenith of the hippie movement?	Woodstock	79%
What secret society traces its origins to Medieval stone workers?	Freemasons	78%
What famous train ran once between Paris and Istanbul?	The {Orient} Express	77%
What Russian empress notoriously had affairs with many different men?	Catherine the Great	73%
What was the name of the spontaneous WWI ceasefire that happened in late 1914?	{Christmas} Truce	70%
What is the most popular sport that was invented in Scotland?	Golf	66%
What unit of British currency was equal to 1/20th of a pound?	Shilling	63%
What was the nickname of Louis XIV?	The {Sun} King	63%
What sport would an ancient Roman watch at a hippodrome or circus?	Chariot racing	60%
Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces that invaded Normandy in 1944?	Dwight Eisenhower	59%
What term is given to the British rule of India from 1858–1947?	British {Raj}	58%
What Jewish banking family rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become unimaginably wealthy?	Rothschild	57%
Who did Friedrich Engels famously work with?	Karl Marx	55%
What Puritanical English ruler is often blamed for banning Christmas?	Oliver Cromwell	48%
Who sent a telegram from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903?	Orville Wright	46%
What religious order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola to reform the Catholic church?	Jesuits	38%
What Union general adopted a "scorched Earth" policy on his march to the sea through the American south?	William Tecumseh Sherman	37%