Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What canal opened in Egypt? | Suez Canal | 92%
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What did the U.S. buy from Russia for just two cents an acre? | Alaska | 90%
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Who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare? | Alice | 86%
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Who killed Abraham Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth | 81%
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Who wrote "Great Expectations"? | Charles Dickens | 78%
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What city built the first underground train network? | London | 77%
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What was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War? | Battle of Gettysburg | 76%
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What city ceased to be the capital of Japan? | Kyoto | 74%
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What did Alfred Nobel invent? | Dynamite | 73%
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Who wrote "Das Kapital"? | Karl Marx | 70%
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What service used horses to carry mail across the American west? | {Pony} Express | 66%
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What country was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II? | Italy | 56%
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What mountain on the Swiss / Italian border was climbed for the first time? | The Matterhorn | 56%
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What South American country lost an estimated 60% of its population in a devastating war? | Paraguay | 52%
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What derogatory term applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons? | {Carpet}bagger | 48%
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What waltz by Johann Strauss II was named after a European river? | The Blue Danube | 46%
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What country was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian - a puppet of France? | Mexico | 41%
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In what country did 20 million die after a man proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus? | China | 39%
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What railroad was completed by a golden spike in Utah? | {Transcontinental} Railroad | 39%
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What company technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada? | Hudson's Bay Company | 34%
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