Statistics for People Who Died in Battle

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Battle or War	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Trojan War	-	Shot in the heel by Paris	Achilles	87%
Ottoman–Hungarian Wars	1476	Wallachian ruler known for impaling people	Vlad the Impaler	84%
Battle of Trafalgar	1805	One-armed British admiral	Horatio Nelson	83%
Philistine-Israelite War	-	Giant who caught a rock to the forehead	Goliath	82%
Battle of the Little Bighorn	1876	He had a last stand fighting the Sioux	George Armstrong Custer	81%
WWI	1918	Top ace of WWI	Manfred von Richthofen	80%
Third Servile War	71 BC	Gladiator who led a slave revolt against Rome	Spartacus	75%
Battle of Bosworth Field	1485	English king who would have given his kingdom for a horse	Richard III	72%
Battle of Lumphanan	1057	Scottish king written about by Shakespeare	MacBeth	66%
Battle of the Alamo	1836	"King of the Wild Frontier"	Davy Crockett	62%
Battle of Thermopylae	480 BC	King of Sparta	Leonidas	60%
Battle of Hastings	1066	Last Anglo-Saxon king of England	Harold II	52%
Trojan War	-	Greatest soldier of Troy	Hector	52%
U.S. Civil War	1863	Confederate general shot by his own troops by accident when returning to camp	Stonewall Jackson	48%
Unnamed battle against a steppe tribe	530 BC	"Great" founder of the first Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	38%
Battle of Lützen	1632	Swedish king called "The Lion of the North"	Gustavus Adolphus	31%
Roman-Parthian Wars	53 BC	Richest man in Rome	Crassus	27%