Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What was the name for the UK's decision to leave the EU? | Brexit | 94%
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Who developed the Theory of Evolution? | Charles Darwin | 94%
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What is the oldest university in England | Oxford | 94%
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Who was said to have been born on December 25th in Bethlehem? | Jesus Christ | 93%
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What large ship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912? | Titanic | 93%
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What building near Washington D.C was attacked on 9/11? | Pentagon | 92%
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Who was the Norse god of thunder? | Thor | 92%
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What pharaoh's tomb was discovered completely intact in 1922? | Tutankhamun | 92%
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What was the period of tensions between the US and USSR called? | Cold War | 91%
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Who explained the Three Laws of Motion? | Isaac Newton | 91%
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Who was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011? | Osama Bin Laden | 91%
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What did protestors dump into Boston Harbor in 1773? | Tea | 91%
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What language was the Torah written in? | Hebrew | 90%
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Who, along with Friedrich Engels, developed Communism? | Karl Marx | 90%
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Who was the first female British Prime Minister? | Margaret Thatcher | 90%
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Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? | Michelangelo | 90%
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What cathedral's construction began in Paris in 1163? | Notre Dame | 90%
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What U.S. territory was purchased from Russia? | Alaska | 89%
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Where was the worst nuclear power disaster in history? | Chernobyl | 89%
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Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914? | Franz Ferdinand | 89%
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What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"? | Ivan IV | 89%
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Who started the Protestant Reformation? | Martin Luther | 89%
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What group of people conquered most of Asia in the 1200s? | Mongols | 89%
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What was the name given to the flu outbreak of the 1918-1920? | {Spanish} Flu | 89%
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Who painted "The Starry Night"? | Vincent van Gogh | 89%
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What city is considered to be the world's first democracy? | Athens | 88%
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What navigational device was invented in China around 200 BC? | Compass | 88%
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What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s? | Dodo Bird | 88%
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What economic event began in 1929? | Great Depression | 88%
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In what city was Muhammad born? | Mecca | 88%
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What boxer famously said "I am the greatest"? | Muhammad Ali | 88%
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What sainted female warrior led French armies during the Hundred Years' War? | Joan of Arc | 87%
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What volcano destroyed Pompeii? | Mount Vesuvius | 87%
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Who supposedly founded Rome with his brother Remus? | Romulus | 87%
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What famous structure was built around 3000 BCE in England? | Stonehenge | 87%
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What was the name of South Africa's system of segregation? | Apartheid | 86%
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What peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014? | Crimea | 86%
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What island was settled by Vikings in 874? | Iceland | 86%
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What was Adolf Hitler's autobiography? | Mein Kampf | 86%
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What crop suffered a devestating blight in Ireland in 1845? | Potato | 86%
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What battle was Napoleon's downfall? | Battle of {Waterloo} | 85%
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What islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982? | Falkland Islands | 85%
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What is the oldest college in the United States? | Harvard | 85%
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Who led the the Indian independence movement against the British? | Mahatma Gandhi | 85%
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What empire conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines? | Ottoman Empire | 85%
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In what country did the Soviet Union place nuclear missiles in 1962? | Cuba | 84%
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On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin? | Great Britain | 84%
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What African island was settled around 400 AD by people from Borneo? | Madagascar | 84%
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What was the tallest building in the world in 1940? | Empire State Building | 83%
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What country fought against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War? | Israel | 83%
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What was ancient Egypt's substitute for paper? | Papyrus | 83%
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Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic? | Amelia Earhart | 82%
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What palace was the home of Louis XIV? | Versailles | 82%
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What empire was ruled by Montezuma? | {Aztec} Empire | 81%
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What is the name of the plague that caused the Black Death? | {Bubonic} Plague | 81%
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Who led his elephants across the Alps to invade Roman Italy? | Hannibal | 81%
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What city burned down in 1666? | London | 81%
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Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union? | Mikhail Gorbachev | 81%
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What French region was William the Conquerer from? | Normandy | 81%
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In what city were Nazi war criminals prosecuted? | Nuremburg | 81%
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What country colonized Angola? | Portugal | 81%
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Who is the Egyptian god of the sun? | Ra | 81%
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What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics? | Rosetta Stone | 81%
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Who led Iraq during the Gulf War? | Saddam Hussein | 81%
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What is Siddhartha Gautama better known as? | Buddha | 80%
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What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair? | Eiffel Tower | 80%
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Who replaced Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer in 1962? | Ringo Starr | 80%
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What territory did Britain acquire as a result of the Opium Wars? | Hong Kong | 79%
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What group of nomadic peoples was led by Atilla? | Huns | 79%
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Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata? | Ludwig Van Beethoven | 79%
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What Austrian neurologist famously studied dreams? | Sigmund Freud | 79%
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Who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564? | William Shakespeare | 79%
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What Paris prison was stormed in 1789? | Bastille | 78%
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What city is usually considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance? | Florence | 78%
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What queen of France was born in Austria? | Marie Antoinette | 78%
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What religious movement was founded by Joseph Smith? | Mormonism | 78%
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What Asian country was annexed by the United States in 1898? | Philippines | 78%
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What series of protests caused the overthrow of many Middle Eastern governments in the 2010s? | Arab Spring | 77%
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What Portuguese territory was returned to China in 1999? | Macau | 77%
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What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City? | Saigon | 76%
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What was the former name of Thailand? | Siam | 76%
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Where did Roald Amundsen become the first person to reach in 1911? | South Pole | 76%
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What was first successfully tested near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903? | Airplane | 75%
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Who invented dynamite? | Alfred Nobel | 75%
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Who was the first Roman Emperor? | Augustus | 75%
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Who discovered Jupiter's moons? | Galileo | 75%
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What city was the Temple of Solomon built in? | Jerusalem | 75%
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Who founded the Academy at Athens? | Plato | 75%
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What island's "Colossus" was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? | Rhodes | 75%
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What animal went extinct on a Siberian island around 1650 BC? | Wooly Mammoth | 75%
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What explorer was killed by Hawaiians in 1779? | James Cook | 74%
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What city was conquered by Greeks in "The Iliad"? | Troy | 74%
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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"? | Charles Dickens | 73%
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What game was invented in India, then adapted by the Muslim world? | Chess | 73%
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What is the Flavian Amphitheater better known as? | Colosseum | 73%
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Who was emperor of Japan in WWII? | Hirohito | 73%
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What European explorer famously met with Kublai Khan? | Marco Polo | 73%
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Who "Fiddled while Rome burned"? | Nero | 73%
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What empire was conquered by Alexander the Great? | Persia | 73%
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What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra? | Taj Mahal | 73%
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What system had vassals borrowing land from lords in exchange for military service? | {Feudal}ism | 72%
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Who was the first person in space? | Yuri Gagarin | 72%
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What was the Roman name for France? | Gaul | 71%
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What organization of countries was formed in the aftermath of WWI? | League of Nations | 71%
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Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence? | Simon Bolivar | 71%
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What Biblical patriarch is considered to be the father of Judaism? | Abraham | 70%
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What Phoenician colony was founded in modern-day Tunisia in 814 BC? | Carthage | 70%
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Who discovered Polonium? | Marie Curie | 70%
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Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon? | Isabella | 69%
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Who invented the printing press? | Johannes Gutenberg | 69%
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What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul? | Orient Express | 69%
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What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States? | Slavery | 69%
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What African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics? | Jesse Owens | 68%
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What empire built Angkor Wat? | Khmer | 68%
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What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia? | Krakatoa | 68%
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Who killed John F. Kennedy? | Lee Harvey Oswald | 68%
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What region was home to the Sumerians and Babylonians? | Mesopotamia | 68%
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Who played "The Tramp" in early silent films? | Charlie Chaplin | 67%
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What river in Pakistan was home to one of the world's earliest societies? | Indus | 67%
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What disease devastated the Incan Empire shortly before Pizzarro's conquest? | Smallpox | 67%
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Who was in charge of lighting the gunpowder in the Gunpowder Plot? | Guy Fawkes | 66%
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What was the second North American country to gain independence? | Haiti | 66%
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What was the largest church in Constantinople? | Hagia Sophia | 65%
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What temple was dedicated to all Roman Gods? | Pantheon | 65%
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What was the name of Mao Zedong's economic plan that resulted in mass starvation? | Great Leap Forward | 64%
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Who was the world's first U.S. dollar billionaire? | John D. Rockefeller | 64%
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What was the largest German state when Germany was united in 1871? | Prussia | 64%
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What Saharan city was an important trading post in the Mali and Songhai empires? | Timbuktu | 64%
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What country broke into civil war between Republicans and Nationalists in 1936? | Spain | 61%
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Who was the first U.S. Secretary of State? | Thomas Jefferson | 61%
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What famed city of gold was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime? | El Dorado | 60%
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What king signed the Magna Carta? | King John | 60%
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What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray? | Nikola Tesla | 60%
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What explorer found a route from Portugal to India? | Vasco da Gama | 60%
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What modern country was the site of Columbus's first landing in the New World? | Bahamas | 59%
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What city was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906? | San Francisco | 59%
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Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"? | Richard Wagner | 58%
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What insect was domesticated by the Egyptians? | Bee | 57%
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What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad? | Harriet Tubman | 57%
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In the Wars of the Roses, which house was the enemy of the Lancasters? | House of York | 57%
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What was the first country to declare independence from the USSR? | Lithuania | 57%
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Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution? | Maximilien Robespierre | 55%
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What was the capital of the Confederate States of America? | Richmond | 55%
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What British officer famously helped in the Arab Revolt? | T.E. Lawrence | 55%
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What was Eli Whitney's most famous invention? | Cotton Gin | 54%
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What British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915? | RMS Lusitania | 54%
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What war's final battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815? | War of 1812 | 54%
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Who was the first person to set foot on the top of Mount Everest? | Edmund Hillary | 53%
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What ancient people built a civilization on Crete? | Minoans | 53%
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What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas? | Jamestown | 52%
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What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755? | Lisbon | 51%
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What period of human history means "New Stone Age"? | Neolithic | 51%
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The Chelyabinsk object made news in 2013? What was it? | a Meteor | 50%
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What island was seriously devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017? | Puerto Rico | 50%
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What was the first country to give women the right to vote? | New Zealand | 49%
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What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations? | Prague | 49%
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What Native American woman helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition? | Sacagawea | 49%
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What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower? | Plymouth | 47%
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What Muslim leader conquered Jerusalem in 1187, inspiring the Third Crusade to take it back? | Saladin | 46%
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Who was named Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 AD? | Charlemagne | 45%
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What country broke apart in the Velvet Divorce? | Czechoslovakia | 45%
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What country was led by Maria Theresa? | Austria | 43%
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What European city's Muslim rulers built the Alhambra? | Granada | 43%
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What country was formerly known as Joseon? | Korea | 42%
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In what Greek city-state were the ancient Olympics held? | Olympia | 42%
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On what holiday did a tsunami strike Indian Ocean countries in 2004? | Boxing Day | 37%
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What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s? | Venice | 37%
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What emperor led the Byzantine Empire during its period of greatest size? | Justinian | 33%
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In what modern-day country would you find the ancient city of Tikal? | Guatemala | 32%
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In what battle did the Franks stop the spread of Islam in Europe? | Battle of {Tours} | 30%
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Whose improvements to the steam engine helped to launch the Industrial Revolution? | James Watt | 30%
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Who was the Great Pyramid of Giza built for? | Khufu | 24%
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What was the dominant empire in West Africa in 400 AD? | Ghana | 23%
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Who won the War of the Pacific, also known as the Saltpeter War? | Chile | 22%
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What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer" in 1816? | Mount {Tambora} | 17%
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What Greek astronomer developed the best-known geocentric model of the solar system? | Ptolemy | 17%
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What was the first empire to unite India? | {Maurya} Empire | 16%
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