Iranian History A-Z - Statistics

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Answer Stats

	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Greek ruler who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great	97%
I	Country Iran fought a bloody war against in the 1980s	Iraq	95%
N	Type of weapon Iran reached a deal for in 2015	Nuclear Weapon	90%
G	Modern-day country that was invaded by the Persian Empire in the 480s BC with an army reported to be 1 million strong	Greece	84%
O	Arch-rival of the Persians for centuries since the 16th century	Ottoman Empire	82%
M	Group of people who invaded the Iranian plateau in 1219, eventually reducing the population by 75%	The Mongols	82%
U	Country whose embassy Iran invaded in 1979, taking 52 hostages	United States	81%
D	Ruled the Persian empire at its greatest extent around 500 BC	Darius the Great	79%
F	Region where settled farming first emerged - it included southwestern Iran	{Fertile} Crescent	79%
J	Group C freed from their captivity in Babylonia, and helped them rebuild their land	Jews	77%
C	King who founded the Achaemenid Persian empire in the 500s BC	Cyrus the Great	76%
K	Shia cleric who was made Supreme Leader after the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini	76%
X	"Great" king who appears in the Bible under the name Ahasuerus	Xerxes the Great	75%
L	Spartan war general who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae against Persia	Leonidas	68%
Z	Prophet who founded a religion that is still practiced today by a small number	Zoroaster	67%
B	Universalist religion that was founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863	{Bahá'í} Faith	64%
W	Iran has won most of its Olympic medals at this sport	Wrestling	58%
P	Ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire	Persepolis	56%
R	British writer K threatened with a death edict in 1989	Salman Rushdie	52%
T	Conqueror of the 1300s who killed 5% of the world's population; he was described as "the product of an Islamized and Iranized society"	Timur	51%
Q	City that is a significant destination of Islamic pilgrimage since the 800s	Qom	49%
S	Last non-Islamic Persian empire that was conquered by the Muslims	Sasanian Empire	41%
H	German philosopher who called the Persians the "first Historical People"	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	32%
V	Title of a prime minister who was under the political authority of the Shah	{Vazir}-e Azam	29%
E	Ancient civilization in southwestern Iran that existed between 3300 – 539 BC	Elam	27%
Y	King of S during the Muslim conquest of Persia	{Yazd}egerd III	16%