Statistics for European History by Letter - Y

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Colour of The Beatles’ submarine	Yellow	99%
Former country in the Balkans	Yugoslavia	98%
Jewish language emerging in the Middle Ages in Central Europe	Yiddish	93%
Russian president who stood on a tank and averted a coup in 1991 (Boris)	Yeltsin	92%
The “White Rose” of the royal houses in Britain	York	91%
Given name of cosmonaut Gagarin, the first man in space	Yuri	90%
WWI battle site in Belgium where the Germans used poison gas	Ypres	73%
Irish poet, dramatist, nationalist and senator (William Butler)	Yeats	65%
HMY Britannia is a famous example of this type of ship	Yacht	61%
Irish bacteriologist Adrian Stokes isolated the virus of this tropical disease in 1927 (but died from it)	Yellow fever	58%
Traditional winter festival in Scandinavia	Yule	55%
British TV presenter famous for her interviews “on the bed” in the 1990s (Paula)	Yates	49%
Four chemical elements are named after this Swedish mining village (name the village or any of the elements)	Ytterby (Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Terbium)	42%
How British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was dubbed	Yorkshire ripper	37%
Alternative name for 1816 AD which was exceptionally cold and led to crop failure and hunger	Year without a summer	26%
Former Ukrainian president poisoned with dioxine in 2004 (Viktor)	Yushchenko	22%
Oldest town on the Volga river and medieval principality (13th – 15th century)	Yaroslavl	18%
Most important Soviet aircraft manufacturer in WWII	Yakovlev	12%
Hero of the Greek war of independence (Alexander)	Ypsilantis	11%
Scandinavian royal house of the early Middle Ages, subject of a “skald” (old Norse poem)	Yngling	8%