Statistics for European History by Letter - S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The greatest bard in English literature	Shakespeare	93%
One of the greatest thinkers of ancient Greece	Socrates	93%
Jazz is hardly imaginable without his invention (Adolphe)	Sax	82%
Leader of a slave rebellion in ancient Rome	Spartacus	79%
Decisive WWII battleground in Eastern Europe	Stalingrad	73%
Founded by a “great” Russian tsar	St. Petersburg	66%
Lost its independence in the Treaty of Union 1707	Scotland	62%
Split between the Roman-Catholic and the Orthodox churches in 1054	Schism	59%
Form of slavery of peasants in the Middle Ages and early modern period	Serfdom	55%
Irish republican party led by Gerry Adams for 35 years	Sinn Féin	55%
Austrian Empress assassinated in 1898 in Geneva (nickname)	Sisi	32%
Portuguese dictator whose authoritarian system ended with the Carnation Revolution (Antonio)	Salazar	29%
Name of several famous Roman generals in the Punic Wars, one of them defeating Hannibal	Scipio	29%
Several incidents with this battleship type in the 1980s caused chaos in Sweden’s navy and politics	Submarine	28%
German playwright considered an advocate of liberalism (Friedrich, “the Robbers”, “William Tell”)	Schiller	24%
This driving class of the French Revolution wore no breeches	Sansculottes	23%
Roman dictator who gave up his power voluntarily in 79 BC (Lucius Cornelius)	Sulla	20%
“Great” tsar of Bulgaria in the 9th/10th century	Simeon	15%
This Russian general born in 1730 fought in numerous countries and crossed the Alps (Alexander)	Suvorov	9%
Nickname of Bavarian king Ludwig II who mysteriously drowned in Lake Starnberg	Swan king	6%