Statistics for History by Letter - H

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City struck by an atomic bomb	Hiroshima	98%
Oldest university in the U.S.	Harvard	95%
Anne Boleyn's husband	{Henry} {VIII}	91%
Chinese island taken by the British in 1842	Hong Kong	87%
General who crossed the Alps with elephants	Hannibal	85%
Iraqi leader hanged in 2006	Saddam Hussein	85%
Apocryphal world wonder of Babylon	{Hanging} {Gardens}	82%
Roman emperor who built a wall in England	Hadrian	80%
What Saigon was renamed to in 1976	Ho Chi Minh City	79%
Emperor of Japan in WWII	Hirohito	77%
Nomadic group that threatened Rome in the 400s AD	Huns	77%
German airship which caught fire in 1937	Hindenburg	75%
Dynasty that ruled Austria	Habsburg	72%
Where William beat Harold in 1066	Hastings	71%
Last name of U.S. Presidents William and Benjamin	Harrison	65%
Group that slaughtered Tutsis in Rwanda	Hutus	64%
Babylonian king whose code decreed "an eye for an eye"	Hammurabi	51%
Greek "Father of History"	Herodotus	50%
Term for a French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries	Huguenot	48%
German mercenaries hired by Britain in the American Revolution	Hessians	37%