Statistics for History by Letter - S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Elizabethan playwright sometimes called "The Bard"	William Shakespeare	91%
Country that rejected apartheid in 1994	South Africa	89%
Canal completed in 1869	Suez	88%
The medieval Japan equivalent to European knights	Samurai	86%
Plato's teacher	Socrates	84%
Militant rival of ancient Athens	Sparta	80%
Cold War superpower	Soviet Union	78%
Term for a person who campaigned for women's right to vote	Suffragist	78%
First human-made satellite	Sputnik 1	75%
Most important political body of the Roman Republic	Senate	73%
Indian language in which Hindu scriptures were written	Sanskrit	67%
Art movement of Salvador Dalí	{Surreal}ism	67%
Title of the Ottoman ruler	Sultan	60%
City where Mozart was born	Salzburg	59%
History's most famous violin maker	Antonio Stradivari	52%
City founded by Brigham Young	Salt Lake City	49%
All-knowing secret police of East Germany	Stasi	40%
King Edward VIII abdicated to marry her	Wallis Simpson	37%
Dynasty of China from 960–1279	Song	31%
Guild of cathedral builders	Stonemasons	31%