Statistics for History by Letter - R

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country that neither Napoleon nor Hitler could conquer	Russia	95%
Cultural "rebirth" that started in 14th century Italy	Renaissance	86%
Last name of two U.S. Presidents	Roosevelt	84%
Probably the most important city in Western History	Rome	82%
Where Hutus slaughtered Tutsis in 1994	Rwanda	75%
Dutch Golden Age painter	Rembrandt	64%
Former name of Zimbabwe	Rhodesia	61%
U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion	Roe v. Wade	58%
Capital of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War	Richmond	54%
Oil baron and first dollar billionaire	John D. Rockefeller	50%
German parliamentary building burned in 1933	Reichstag	50%
Term for the British rule of India	British {Raj}	46%
"Great" pharaoh also known as Ozymandias	Ramesses II	46%
International Jewish banking family	Rothschild	44%
Caesar said "The Die is Cast" when he crossed this river into Italy	Rubicon	42%
He broke baseball's color barrier	Jackie Robinson	40%
Explorer and court favorite of Queen Elizabeth	Sir Walter Raleigh	40%
King who restored Scottish independence in 1328	Robert the Bruce	39%
Louis XIII's chief advisor	Cardinal {Richelieu}	34%
Enemies of the Cavaliers during the English Civil War	Roundheads	29%