Statistics for Monks and Nuns

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Albanian nun who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Kolkata	Mother Teresa	98%
Monk who supposedly nailed his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in 1517	Martin Luther	91%
Before China invaded in 1950 - about half of the male population of this region were Buddhist monks	Tibet	88%
Russian mystic known as the "Mad Monk" who was assassinated in 1916	Rasputin	87%
Common term for a place where nuns live, starting with C	Convent	82%
Beverage which French monk Dom Pérignon is inaccurately credited as having invented	Sparkling wine	80%
Country in which you'd find Mount Athos, famous for its many monasteries	Greece	78%
Friar who was a companion of Robin Hood	Friar {Tuck}	75%
"A" word which refers to the head of a monastery	Abbot	74%
Trappist monks in Belgium are famous for making this	Beer	74%
"H" word that refers to the clothing of a nun or monk	Habit	74%
Perhaps feeling guilty for dissolving the monasteries, this king's last words were "monks, monks, monks"	King Henry VIII	73%
Whoopi Goldberg movie about a woman who poses as nun to hide from the mob	Sister Act	70%
Work by Geoffrey Chaucer whose many characters included a monk, a friar, and two nuns	The Canterbury Tales	63%
What Hamlet said to Ophelia	Get thee to a {nunnery}	59%
Modern country with the most Buddhist monks per capita	Myanmar	59%
The three typical monastic vows are poverty, ______, and obedience	Chastity	56%
Friar whose pea plant experiments led to the understanding of dominant and recessive genes	Gregor Mendel	47%
Chinese monastery known as the cradle of kung fu	Shaolin	40%
Venerable monk who wrote a history of England in the 8th century	Bede	34%