Statistics for History by Letter - V

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Norse raiders who terrorized Europe	Vikings	97%
Italian city-state and naval power of the Middle Ages	Venice	89%
Wallachian duke who impaled people	Vlad	77%
City that was the center of classical music around 1800	Vienna	76%
Communist guerrilla group of South Vietnam	Viet Cong	68%
U.S. state briefly an independent nation	Vermont	67%
River on whose banks the Battle of Stalingrad was fought	Volga	65%
Namesake of two continents	Amerigo Vespucci	47%
Germanic tribe who sacked Rome in 455	Vandals	41%
Mononymic author of "Candide"	Voltaire	39%
Style of variety show popular around 1900	Vaudeville	38%
American railroad tycoon, one of the richest people ever	Cornelius Vanderbilt	37%
Roman term for "exit", not actually a place where people threw up	Vomitorium	37%
Edward Jenner invented the first one in 1798	Vaccine	35%
One who swears allegiance in exchange for a fief	Vassal	35%
Explorer of Puget Sound	George Vancouver	29%
Norse colony in Canada	Vinland	29%
Group of ancient Hindu scriptures	Vedas	25%
Beard style of V.I. Lenin and Charles I	Van Dyke	14%
Official Latin translation of the Bible	Vulgate	14%