Statistics for Simple history knowledge #1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Military general who became revolutionary emperor of France during the French Revolution	Napoleon Bonaparte	93%
Year in which Hitler invaded the Soviet Union	1941	80%
The first man in space	Yuri Gagarin	80%
Former name of Istanbul	Constantinople	73%
Consul of the Roman Empire who conquered Gaul	Julius Caesar	73%
Country in Oceania originally used as a penal colony by the British	Australia	60%
Communist leader of China who enacted the Great Leap Forward	Mao Zedong	60%
Canal that connects the Mediterranean and Red Sea	Suez Canal	60%
Islamic religious war	Jihad	53%
The most common nickname of the American flag	Stars and stripes	47%
Term for describing a period of intense anti-communist suspicion from the 1940s - 1950s named after a US Wisconsin senator	McCarthy Era	40%
First president of the Russian Republic after the Cold War	Boris Yeltsin	33%
Germanic tribes who migrated to England in the 5th century	Saxons	27%
Alliance between Russia, France and Great Britain during World War I	Triple Entente	13%
Trade league in the Baltic and North sea during the medieval ages and renaissance	Hanseatic League	7%