Statistics for History Containing the Letter X

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Author of "The Communist Manifesto"	Karl Marx	98%
Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII	Axis	92%
Mythical creature sculpted in Giza, Egypt around 2500 B.C.	Great Sphinx	87%
Born in Greece, he conquered Persia, and died in Babylon	Alexander the Great	85%
The first disease to be completely eradicated, in the late 1970s	Smallpox	82%
The biggest news story in the UK in 2016	Brexit	78%
Legendary left-handed guitarist who died in London in 1970, age 27	Jimi Hendrix	77%
Agatha Christie wrote about a murder on this train line connecting Paris and Istanbul	Orient Express	76%
Wilhelm Röntgen discovered this part of the electromagnetic spectrum in 1895	X-ray	71%
What the Pope did to Henry VIII in 1538	Excommunicate	68%
Branch of Christianity that split from the Roman Catholics in 1054	Eastern Orthodox	61%
"No ______ without representation", said the American colonists to King George III	Taxation	61%
The only President of the U.S. whose last name contains an X	Richard Nixon	60%
Cruel Roman method of execution used on Spartacus's followers	Crucifixion	51%
Formation of spearmen employed by the above	Phalanx	51%
Linen was first made from this plant over 4000 years ago in Egypt	Flax	46%
The Marquess of Queensberry endorsed rules for this sport in 1867	Boxing	45%
Confederate Civil War song: "The land of cotton / old times there are not forgotten"	Dixie	40%
Tapestry that tells the story of the Norman conquest of England	Bayeux Tapestry	37%
Edison's phonograph recorded sound on a cylinder made of this	Wax	28%