Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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City struck by an atomic bomb | Hiroshima | 98%
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Oldest university in the U.S. | Harvard | 92%
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Anne Boleyn's husband | {Henry} {VIII} | 89%
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Chinese island taken by the British in 1842 | Hong Kong | 81%
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General who crossed the Alps with elephants | Hannibal | 80%
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Iraqi leader hanged in 2006 | Saddam Hussein | 80%
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Apocryphal world wonder of Babylon | {Hanging} {Gardens} | 75%
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Roman emperor who built a wall in England | Hadrian | 73%
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Nomadic group that threatened Rome in the 400s AD | Huns | 73%
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Emperor of Japan in WWII | Hirohito | 70%
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What Saigon was renamed to in 1976 | Ho Chi Minh City | 70%
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German airship which caught fire in 1937 | Hindenburg | 68%
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Dynasty that ruled Austria | Habsburg | 65%
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Where William beat Harold in 1066 | Hastings | 64%
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Last name of U.S. Presidents William and Benjamin | Harrison | 57%
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Group that slaughtered Tutsis in Rwanda | Hutus | 54%
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Babylonian king whose code decreed "an eye for an eye" | Hammurabi | 42%
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Greek "Father of History" | Herodotus | 42%
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Term for a French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries | Huguenot | 40%
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German mercenaries hired by Britain in the American Revolution | Hessians | 28%
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