Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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1492 | This explorer "discovers" the New World | Christopher Columbus | 98%
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1469 | This country is united after Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castille | Spain | 93%
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1431 | This female French warrior is burned at the stake by the English | Joan of Arc | 91%
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1455–1487 | The houses of Lancaster and York fight this series of war for the English crown | Wars of the {Roses} | 85%
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1490 | This artist draws "The Vitruvian Man" | Leonardo da Vinci | 83%
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1453 | This city is captured by the Turks, ending the Byzantine empire | Constantinople | 82%
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1448–1476 | This Wallachian ruler becomes infamous for impaling enemies | Vlad the Impaler | 81%
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1406–1420 | The Forbidden City palace is built in this capital | Beijing | 78%
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1450 | Johannes Gutenberg invents this device (although it already existed in China) | Printing press | 78%
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1400s | The Medici family become de-facto rulers of this city | Florence | 76%
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1430 | Norse settlements on this island collapse with no survivors | Greenland | 67%
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1497 | This Portuguese explorer sails from Europe to India | Vasco da Gama | 65%
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1400s | This sport is invented in Scotland | Golf | 63%
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1485 | This hunchbacked King of England meets his end at the Battle of Bosworth Field | Richard III | 60%
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1405–1433 | This country launches a "treasure fleet" of over 300 ships dispensing gifts throughout the Indian Ocean | China | 53%
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1487 | The Duke of Bavaria makes laws concerning the purity of this substance | Beer | 51%
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1415 | Against great odds, Henry V defeats the French at this famous battle | Battle of Agincourt | 46%
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1494 | First evidence of this "water of life" in Scotland | Scotch whisky | 44%
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1455–1502 | This Spanish family produces two Popes, notorious for vice and corruption | Borgia | 43%
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1400s | This giant bird is driven to extinction by Maori hunters in New Zealand | Moa | 30%
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