Statistics for History by Letter - U

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country formed when Great Britain merged with Ireland in 1801	United Kingdom	99%
Country that declared itself independent in 1776	United States	97%
Perfect society envisioned by Thomas More	Utopia	94%
Term for a German military submarine	U-Boat	89%
Country ruled by Idi Amin	Uganda	89%
Destination of Mormon pioneers	Utah	87%
Army that wore blue in the U.S. Civil War	{Union} Army	81%
Nickname of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski	Unabomber	80%
Celestial object discovered by William Herschel in 1781	Uranus	80%
Novel by James Joyce once considered obscene	Ulysses	74%
The world's first of these opened in Bologna in 1088	University	70%
Friendly nickname of Joseph Stalin	{Uncle} {Joe}	68%
Once the largest city of the Netherlands	Utrecht	67%
Name of 8 popes	Urban	65%
One of the letters of the Greek alphabet	Upsilon	56%
Largest of the Muslim empires	{Umayyad} Caliphate	55%
Phoenician colony in Tunisia which a city in New York is named for	Utica	49%
Name of two Italian kings	Umberto	46%
German city whose cathedral was briefly the tallest building in the world	Ulm	37%
Pagan center of Sweden where human sacrifices were hung from trees	Uppsala	34%