Statistics for European History by Letter - J

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Most feared London criminal of the 19th century	Jack the Ripper	95%
English king forced to sign the Magna Carta	John Lackland	93%
Balfour promised these often persecuted people a nation	Jews	85%
Fool at medieval noble courts	Jester	84%
Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution	James II	82%
Inspired the French to rise against English rule	Joan of Arc	79%
“Great” Byzantine emperor	Justinian	70%
Founder of the best-known Irish whiskey distillery in 1780 (John)	Jameson	47%
Germanic tribe possibly from continental Denmark who settled in Britain along with the Angles and Saxons	Jutes	43%
Influential political club during the French Revolution	Jacobins	39%
Elephant-hunting successor of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco	Juan Carlos	32%
Popular (and sometimes controversial) Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980)	Juliana	31%
1830 uprising in France (named after the month it occured) tumbling the Bourbon dynasty	July Revolution	29%
Short-lived emirate in Andalusia, today a Mecca of motor racing	Jerez de la Frontera	28%
City in Thuringia famous for its optical industry (Carl Zeiss)	Jena	23%
"The Good Pope": Popular reformist pope calling the 2nd Vatican Council	John XXIII	19%
Dynasty of the first five Roman emperors	Julio-Claudian	15%
General, PM and president of communist Poland, often pictured with dark sunglasses (Wojciech)	Jaruzelski	13%
Royal dynasty ruling in Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia and Hungary	Jagiellons	11%
Danish daredevil, self-declared and short-lived “protector” of Iceland in 1809 (Jørgen)	Jørgensen	11%