Statistics for History by Letter - D

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Painter of the Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci	98%
Author of "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	92%
European era which followed the fall of Rome	The {Dark} Ages	87%
June 6, 1944 in Normandy	D-Day	86%
First U.S. state to ratify the Constitution	Delaware	83%
Surrealist artist who painted melting clocks	Salvador Dali	79%
Author who wrote "Oliver Twist"	Charles Dickens	72%
Reincarnated leader who fled Tibet	Dalai Lama	72%
Term for a Celtic priest	Druid	67%
Middle Eastern capital which is one of the world's oldest cities	Damascus	63%
Alfred Nobel's invention	Dynamite	61%
President of France from 1959–1969	Charles de Gaulle	53%
He thought, therefore he was	Rene Descartes	50%
Explorer who sailed from Portugal to India	Vasco da Gama	46%
Region of western Sudan which became infamous for genocide in the early 21st century	Darfur	38%
Title of the leader of Venice	Doge	38%
First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe	Francis Drake	38%
"Great" Persian king mentioned in 5 books of the Bible	Darius	37%
Colony that became Indonesia	{Dutch} {East} {Indies}	35%
Conservative British Prime Minister who was born Jewish	Benjamin Disraeli	34%
Muslim shrine on Jerusalem's Temple Mount	{Dome} {of} {the} {Rock}	25%
Legendary founder and first queen of Carthage	Dido	22%