Statistics for Byzantine Emperors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Became Emperor after the death of his far more successful brother	Constantine VIII	90%
Reconquered most of Anatolia before accidentally killing himself with a poison arrow	John II	80%
Was deposed 3 times in his long life and oversaw a sharp decline of the Byzantine Empire	John V	80%
First Emperor to be deposed and then come back, minus his nose	Justinian II	80%
Nicknames include "The Thracian" "The Great" and "The Butcher	Leo I	80%
Began Iconoclasm and ended the 20 Years Anarchy	Leo III	80%
Was a local tax collector before being proclaimed Emperor	Theodosius III	75%
Allegedly had his skull turned into a silver lined cup	Nikephoros I	70%
Was Murdered in the bath (Not Commodus)	Romanos III	70%
Lost the Battle of Manzikert	Romanos IV	70%
Held off the Arabs for most of his reign and rocked a large beard	Constans II	65%
Began Emperor after his father was killed at the Battle of Pliska	Staurakios	65%
Was Deposed and blinded before being put back on the throne by the crusaders	Isaac II	60%
Is largely regarded as the worst Byzantine Emperor	Phocas	55%
Famously stopped paying tribute to the Huns before invading the Hunnic Empire	Marcian	50%