Clue | Valid Answers | % Correct |
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The four "elements" as defined by Aristotle | Fire | Air | Water | Earth | 95%
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Countries that the U.S. declared war on prior to WWI | United Kingdom | Mexico | Spain | 91%
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Four "great" inventions of ancient China | Compass | Gunpowder | Papermaking | Printing | 84%
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Royal house of English monarchs | Normandy | Blois | Anjou | Plantagenet | Lancaster | York | Tudor | Stuart | Hanover | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Windsor | 81%
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Islands where Napoleon lived | Corsica | Elba | Saint Helena | 74%
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Modern-day countries in the New World visited by Columbus on his first voyage | Bahamas | Cuba | Haiti | Dominican Republic | 73%
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Brontë sisters | Anne | Emily | Charlotte | 72%
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One of the first five Roman emperors other than Augustus | Tiberius | Caligula | Claudius | Nero | 70%
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Leo Tolstoy novels | War and Peace | Anna Karenina | Resurrection | 66%
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Person who was Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in the 1930s | Mohandas Gandhi | Pierre Laval | Hugh Johnson | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Haile Selassie | Wallis Simpson | Soong May-ling | Chiang Kai-shek | Adolf Hitler | Joseph Stalin | 65%
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Modern-day capitals that were, at one time, the capital of an Islamic caliphate | Baghdad | Cairo | Damascus | 61%
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Title of nobility carried by peers in the British honours system | Duke | Marquess | Earl | Viscount | Baron | 58%
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Barbarian tribes who sacked Rome | Gauls | Visigoths | Vandals | Ostrogoths | 56%
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Five most-mentioned characters in the Iliad | Hector | Achilles | Zeus | Ajax | Agamemnon | 50%
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Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England (traditional reckoning) | East Anglia | Essex | Kent | Mercia | Northumbria | Sussex | Wessex | 46%
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"Great" ancient capitals of China (other than Beijing) | Nanjing | Luoyang | Xi'an | 43%
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Hanseatic League cities | Lübeck | Hamburg | Gdańsk | Kaliningrad | Tallinn | + 36 others | 38%
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Prime Minister of Israel prior to the year 1990 | David Ben-Gurion | Moshe Sharett | Levi Eshkol | Golda Meir | Yitzhak Rabin | Menachem Begin | Yitzhak Shamir | Shimon Peres | 35%
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Female authors pen-named "George" | George {Eliot} | George {Sand} | 34%
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Ports where the Barbary Pirates were based | Algiers | Rabat | Salé | Tripoli | Tunis | 32%
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