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Question	Answer	% Correct
What was the name for the UK's decision to leave the EU?	Brexit	100%
What economic event began in 1929?	Great Depression	100%
What sainted female warrior led French armies during the Hundred Years' War?	Joan of Arc	100%
Who was the Norse god of thunder?	Thor	100%
Who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564?	William Shakespeare	100%
Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?	Franz Ferdinand	95%
What is the oldest university in England	Oxford	95%
What navigational device was invented in China around 200 BC?	Compass	94%
What was the tallest building in the world in 1940?	Empire State Building	94%
What language was the Torah written in?	Hebrew	94%
Who invented dynamite?	Alfred Nobel	93%
What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s?	Dodo Bird	93%
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?	Amelia Earhart	92%
What country fought against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War?	Israel	92%
Who started the Protestant Reformation?	Martin Luther	92%
Who supposedly founded Rome with his brother Remus?	Romulus	92%
What did protestors dump into Boston Harbor in 1773?	Tea	92%
Who, along with Friedrich Engels, developed Communism?	Karl Marx	91%
Who replaced Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer in 1962?	Ringo Starr	91%
Who was said to have been born on December 25th in Bethlehem?	Jesus Christ	90%
Who led the the Indian independence movement against the British?	Mahatma Gandhi	90%
In what city was Muhammad born?	Mecca	90%
What cathedral's construction began in Paris in 1163?	Notre Dame	90%
Who was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011?	Osama Bin Laden	90%
What island was settled by Vikings in 874?	Iceland	89%
What was Adolf Hitler's autobiography?	Mein Kampf	89%
Who founded the Academy at Athens?	Plato	89%
What island's "Colossus" was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?	Rhodes	89%
What animal went extinct on a Siberian island around 1650 BC?	Wooly Mammoth	89%
What empire was ruled by Montezuma?	{Aztec} Empire	88%
What peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014?	Crimea	88%
What city is usually considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance?	Florence	88%
What group of people conquered most of Asia in the 1200s?	Mongols	88%
What crop suffered a devestating blight in Ireland in 1845?	Potato	88%
Who painted "The Starry Night"?	Vincent van Gogh	88%
What was the period of tensions between the US and USSR called?	Cold War	87%
Who led Iraq during the Gulf War?	Saddam Hussein	87%
What U.S. territory was purchased from Russia?	Alaska	86%
What battle was Napoleon's downfall?	Battle of {Waterloo}	86%
Who developed the Theory of Evolution?	Charles Darwin	86%
Who explained the Three Laws of Motion?	Isaac Newton	86%
What empire conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines?	Ottoman Empire	86%
What was ancient Egypt's substitute for paper?	Papyrus	86%
What group of nomadic peoples was led by Atilla?	Huns	85%
What European explorer famously met with Kublai Khan?	Marco Polo	85%
What large ship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912?	Titanic	85%
What is the name of the plague that caused the Black Death?	{Bubonic} Plague	84%
In what country did the Soviet Union place nuclear missiles in 1962?	Cuba	84%
What series of protests caused the overthrow of many Middle Eastern governments in the 2010s?	Arab Spring	83%
What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"?	Ivan IV	83%
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?	Michelangelo	83%
Who was the first person in space?	Yuri Gagarin	83%
What is the oldest college in the United States?	Harvard	82%
Who was the first female British Prime Minister?	Margaret Thatcher	82%
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?	Mikhail Gorbachev	82%
What was the former name of Thailand?	Siam	82%
What was the name given to the flu outbreak of the 1918-1920?	{Spanish} Flu	82%
What volcano destroyed Pompeii?	Mount Vesuvius	81%
What system had vassals borrowing land from lords in exchange for military service?	{Feudal}ism	80%
On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin?	Great Britain	80%
Who led his elephants across the Alps to invade Roman Italy?	Hannibal	80%
Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?	Ludwig Van Beethoven	80%
What French region was William the Conquerer from?	Normandy	80%
What building near Washington D.C was attacked on 9/11?	Pentagon	80%
What country colonized Angola?	Portugal	80%
What is Siddhartha Gautama better known as?	Buddha	79%
Where was the worst nuclear power disaster in history?	Chernobyl	79%
What boxer famously said "I am the greatest"?	Muhammad Ali	79%
What Asian country was annexed by the United States in 1898?	Philippines	79%
What river in Pakistan was home to one of the world's earliest societies?	Indus	78%
Who discovered Polonium?	Marie Curie	78%
What city is considered to be the world's first democracy?	Athens	77%
What territory did Britain acquire as a result of the Opium Wars?	Hong Kong	77%
In what city were Nazi war criminals prosecuted?	Nuremburg	77%
What was the name of South Africa's system of segregation?	Apartheid	76%
What African island was settled around 400 AD by people from Borneo?	Madagascar	76%
What islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?	Falkland Islands	75%
What city burned down in 1666?	London	75%
What country broke into civil war between Republicans and Nationalists in 1936?	Spain	75%
What pharaoh's tomb was discovered completely intact in 1922?	Tutankhamun	75%
What palace was the home of Louis XIV?	Versailles	75%
What was first successfully tested near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903?	Airplane	74%
What African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?	Jesse Owens	74%
What empire built Angkor Wat?	Khmer	74%
What religious movement was founded by Joseph Smith?	Mormonism	74%
What Austrian neurologist famously studied dreams?	Sigmund Freud	74%
Where did Roald Amundsen become the first person to reach in 1911?	South Pole	74%
Who is the Egyptian god of the sun?	Ra	73%
What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics?	Rosetta Stone	73%
Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence?	Simon Bolivar	73%
Who was emperor of Japan in WWII?	Hirohito	71%
Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon?	Isabella	71%
What organization of countries was formed in the aftermath of WWI?	League of Nations	71%
What was the largest German state when Germany was united in 1871?	Prussia	71%
What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City?	Saigon	71%
What city was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906?	San Francisco	71%
What modern country was the site of Columbus's first landing in the New World?	Bahamas	69%
Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"?	Charles Dickens	69%
What was the largest church in Constantinople?	Hagia Sophia	69%
Who was the first person to set foot on the top of Mount Everest?	Edmund Hillary	68%
Who discovered Jupiter's moons?	Galileo	68%
What was the name of Mao Zedong's economic plan that resulted in mass starvation?	Great Leap Forward	68%
Who killed John F. Kennedy?	Lee Harvey Oswald	68%
What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul?	Orient Express	68%
What empire was conquered by Alexander the Great?	Persia	68%
What is the Flavian Amphitheater better known as?	Colosseum	67%
What Portuguese territory was returned to China in 1999?	Macau	67%
What ancient people built a civilization on Crete?	Minoans	67%
What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States?	Slavery	67%
What Saharan city was an important trading post in the Mali and Songhai empires?	Timbuktu	67%
Who was the first Roman Emperor?	Augustus	65%
What was the first country to declare independence from the USSR?	Lithuania	65%
What queen of France was born in Austria?	Marie Antoinette	65%
What disease devastated the Incan Empire shortly before Pizzarro's conquest?	Smallpox	65%
What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra?	Taj Mahal	65%
What Paris prison was stormed in 1789?	Bastille	64%
What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?	Eiffel Tower	64%
What famous structure was built around 3000 BCE in England?	Stonehenge	64%
The Chelyabinsk object made news in 2013? What was it?	a Meteor	63%
What famed city of gold was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime?	El Dorado	63%
What was the Roman name for France?	Gaul	63%
What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad?	Harriet Tubman	63%
What city was the Temple of Solomon built in?	Jerusalem	63%
What was Eli Whitney's most famous invention?	Cotton Gin	62%
Who was in charge of lighting the gunpowder in the Gunpowder Plot?	Guy Fawkes	62%
What explorer found a route from Portugal to India?	Vasco da Gama	62%
What was the second North American country to gain independence?	Haiti	61%
What British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915?	RMS Lusitania	61%
What Biblical patriarch is considered to be the father of Judaism?	Abraham	60%
Who invented the printing press?	Johannes Gutenberg	59%
What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755?	Lisbon	59%
Who "Fiddled while Rome burned"?	Nero	59%
What insect was domesticated by the Egyptians?	Bee	58%
What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia?	Krakatoa	58%
What city was conquered by Greeks in "The Iliad"?	Troy	58%
Who played "The Tramp" in early silent films?	Charlie Chaplin	57%
What Phoenician colony was founded in modern-day Tunisia in 814 BC?	Carthage	56%
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas?	Jamestown	56%
What region was home to the Sumerians and Babylonians?	Mesopotamia	56%
What period of human history means "New Stone Age"?	Neolithic	56%
What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations?	Prague	56%
Who was the first U.S. Secretary of State?	Thomas Jefferson	56%
What game was invented in India, then adapted by the Muslim world?	Chess	55%
What Muslim leader conquered Jerusalem in 1187, inspiring the Third Crusade to take it back?	Saladin	54%
What king signed the Magna Carta?	King John	53%
What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray?	Nikola Tesla	53%
Who was the world's first U.S. dollar billionaire?	John D. Rockefeller	52%
What explorer was killed by Hawaiians in 1779?	James Cook	50%
What Native American woman helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition?	Sacagawea	50%
What British officer famously helped in the Arab Revolt?	T.E. Lawrence	50%
What war's final battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815?	War of 1812	48%
Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?	Maximilien Robespierre	47%
Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"?	Richard Wagner	47%
In the Wars of the Roses, which house was the enemy of the Lancasters?	House of York	43%
What temple was dedicated to all Roman Gods?	Pantheon	43%
In what Greek city-state were the ancient Olympics held?	Olympia	42%
What country broke apart in the Velvet Divorce?	Czechoslovakia	37%
In what battle did the Franks stop the spread of Islam in Europe?	Battle of {Tours}	36%
What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower?	Plymouth	36%
What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?	Richmond	36%
Who was named Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 AD?	Charlemagne	35%
What emperor led the Byzantine Empire during its period of greatest size?	Justinian	35%
What island was seriously devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017?	Puerto Rico	32%
Whose improvements to the steam engine helped to launch the Industrial Revolution?	James Watt	31%
What was the first country to give women the right to vote?	New Zealand	31%
What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s?	Venice	30%
What was the dominant empire in West Africa in 400 AD?	Ghana	29%
What country was formerly known as Joseon?	Korea	29%
What country was led by Maria Theresa?	Austria	21%
Who won the War of the Pacific, also known as the Saltpeter War?	Chile	19%
On what holiday did a tsunami strike Indian Ocean countries in 2004?	Boxing Day	18%
What European city's Muslim rulers built the Alhambra?	Granada	18%
Who was the Great Pyramid of Giza built for?	Khufu	14%
What Greek astronomer developed the best-known geocentric model of the solar system?	Ptolemy	11%
What was the first empire to unite India?	{Maurya} Empire	8%
In what modern-day country would you find the ancient city of Tikal?	Guatemala	7%
What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer" in 1816?	Mount {Tambora}	0%