Statistics for 15th Century A-Z

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
J	1431	This French heroine, age 19, is burned at the stake by English forces	Joan of Arc	93%
L	1490s	This artist paints his famous fresco "The Last Supper"	Leonardo	93%
O	1453	This empire captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire	92%
K	1400s	Many rulers in Central Asia use this Mongol title	Khan	91%
I	1498	Vasco da Gama sails from Portugal to this country	India	88%
P	1439	Johannes Gutenberg invents this	Printing Press	87%
V	1400s	This Wallachian prince gains his nickname by impaling his enemies	Vlad the Impaler	87%
B	1492	Christopher Columbus makes landfall in this North American country	Bahamas	86%
F	1406-20	One million workers are employed to build this palace in Beijing	{Forbidden} City	86%
T	1485	This royal dynasty comes to power in England	Tudor	85%
C	1402	Spain settles these islands off the coast of Africa	Canary Islands	84%
M	1450s	This famous Incan site is constructed	Machu Picchu	84%
Y	1400s	Coffee is consumed for the first time - in this modern-day country	Yemen	82%
R	1485	This "hunchbacked" English king is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field	Richard III	81%
W	1419	The first "defenestration" of Prague occurs as seven council members are thrown out a ...	Window	73%
N	1421	The capital of China is relocated from this city to Beijing	Nanjing	72%
H	1400s	This predecessor to the piano is invented	Harpsichord	63%
G	1492	This last Islamic city in Spain is captured	Granada	62%
A	1415	Henry V wins this famous battle over the French	Agincourt	59%
X	1400s	This Chinese city marks the Eastern terminus of the Silk Road	Xi'an	59%
Q	1400s	This crop is known as "the mother of all grains" to the Incas	Quinoa	55%
D	1430	This artist's "David" is the first known nude statue produced in Europe since antiquity	Donatello	50%
S	1400s	Golf is played for the first time at the "Old Course" in this Scottish town	St. Andrews	39%
E	1403-08	China's Yongle emperor commissions this type of text - meant to summarize the entirety of Chinese literature and knowledge	Encyclopedia	34%
U	1405	A church in this German city is consecrated. When completed in 1890 it would be the tallest building in the world	Ulm	28%
Z	1405-33	This Chinese eunuch leads a fleet of 300 ships on seven voyages across the Indian Ocean	{Zheng} He	24%