Statistics for European History by Letter - P

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
French “father of bacteriology”, a milk heating process is named after him (Louis)	Pasteur	92%
Killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century	Plague	88%
Three defenestrations took place in this Bohemian city (1419, 1483, 1618)	Prague	87%
This Greek is labelled the founder of political philosophy	Plato	83%
A socialist commune ruled this major European capital for two months in 1871	Paris	82%
Turned Russia into a European nation	Peter the Great	72%
The rise of Rome, the decline of Carthage	Punic Wars	68%
This Spanish king took the fatal decision to send his armada to England	Philipp II	66%
Around 1.47 m (4 ft 9) in size, but the greatest voice in French chanson (Edith)	Piaf	66%
Working class in the centre of Karl Marx’ political theory	Proletariat	65%
French mathematician and physicist of the 17th century, invented a mechanical calculator. The Unit of pressure is named after him (Blaise)	Pascal	63%
Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in 2006 with this radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie	Polonium	55%
Partitioned three times between 1772 and 1795, but not lost yet	Poland	51%
Russian battleship glorified in Sergey Eisensteins famous movie	Potemkin	44%
This territory was created by a donation of Pepin the Short to the Pope	Papal State	43%
Roman general, member of the first triumvirate along with Caesar and Crassus	Pompey	32%
His assassination was Sweden’s greatest mystery for decades (Olof)	Palme	30%
Lt. Col. in Soviet air defense who averted a nuclear war in 1983 (Stanislav)	Petrov	20%
Infamous French government official who sent Jews to concentration camps in the 1940s and ordered the deadly Paris massacre of a peaceful pro-Algeria demonstration in 1961 (Maurice)	Papon	7%
Medieval priest who granted indulgence for money	Pardoner	6%