Statistics for History by Letter - S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country that rejected apartheid in 1994	South Africa	90%
Canal completed in 1869	Suez	89%
Elizabethan playwright sometimes called "The Bard"	William Shakespeare	87%
Plato's teacher	Socrates	85%
Military nobility of medieval Japan	Samurai	79%
Militant rival of ancient Athens	Sparta	79%
Cold War superpower	Soviet Union	77%
First human-made satellite	Sputnik 1	76%
Term for a person who campaigned for women's right to vote	Suffragist	76%
Most important political body of the Roman Republic	Senate	74%
Indian language in which Hindu scriptures were written	Sanskrit	67%
Art movement of Salvador Dalí	{Surreal}ism	65%
City where Mozart was born	Salzburg	57%
History's most famous violin maker	Antonio Stradivari	56%
Title of the Ottoman ruler	Sultan	54%
"This is the place", said Brigham Young	Salt Lake City	49%
All-knowing secret police of East Germany	Stasi	37%
King Edward VIII abdicated to marry her	Wallis Simpson	37%
Guild of cathedral builders	Stonemasons	31%
Dynasty of China from 960-1279	Song	25%