Statistics for History Quiz: True or False? #2

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The first electric lap steel guitar was nicknamed the "Frying Pan".	True	83%
The Cambodian genocide had a higher death toll than the Rwandan genocide.	True	79%
The Diquis culture of what is now Costa Rica built large, perfectly-carved stone spheres.	True	74%
The Battle of Hastings occurred before humans had travelled to New Zealand.	True	73%
The first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor was invented before the first petrol-powered lorry (truck).	True	73%
Dutch independence was one of the outcomes of the Thirty Years War.	True	69%
Rice was used in the construction of the Great Wall of China.	True	66%
Russia was the most populous state in Europe in 1600.	False	64%
The Black Death was the first known pandemic caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.	False	56%
The Roman Empire was, by area, the largest empire the world had ever seen at the time.	False	51%
Imhotep was the architect behind the first Egyptian pyramid.	True	51%
Memphis was the largest city in the world in the year 3000 BC.	False	46%
Jan van Eyck and Rembrandt both had the same tutor.	False	44%
The figures for China's military and civilian deaths of World War II are roughly equal.	False	40%
The largest Roman temple existed in what is now Turkey.	False	39%