Statistics for History by Letter - Y

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country that broke into pieces in 1992	Yugoslavia	94%
Language that was once common among European Jews	Yiddish	80%
Cradle of Chinese civilization	{Yellow} River	79%
First name of cosmonaut Gagarin	Yuri	78%
Russia's first democratically- elected leader	Boris Yeltsin	74%
Derogatory term for New Englanders, turned into a point of pride	Yankee	74%
Way that herders once yelled across the Alps	Yodeling	68%
Holiday on which Arab states launched a suprise attack on Israel	Yom Kippur	60%
Peninsula struck by an asteroid, circa 65 million BC	Yucatán	60%
Meeting place of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt	Yalta	58%
Wintertime holiday of Germanic pagans	Yule	55%
Founder of Salt Lake City	Brigham Young	50%
Preferred wood for making longbows	Yew	47%
Site of a chilly gold rush in the 1890s	Yukon	47%
Commander of Japan's navy during WWII	Isoroku Yamamoto	29%
He broke the sound barrier	Chuck Yeager	28%
Mongol dynasty that ruled China	Yuan	23%
Original name of San Francisco	{Yerba} Buena	17%