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Group	Hint 1	Hint 2	Hint 3	Answer	% Correct
Francia	813	840	Was the first of nineteen French kings called _____	Louis I	84%
Macedonia	336 BC	323 BC	Conquered Persia and founded many cities	Alexander III	79%
Francia	25th December 800	28th January 814	Crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III	Charlemagne	79%
Ancient Egypt	51 BC	30 BC	Last ruler of Egypt before the Romans conquered it	Cleopatra VII Philopator	79%
Kingdom of England	17th November 1558	24th March 1603	The Spanish Armada was defeated during her reign	Elizabeth I	79%
Kingdom of England	July 1553	17th November 1558	Known as "Bloody ____"	Mary I	79%
United States	30th April 1789	4th March 1797	First US president	George Washington	74%
Japan	25th December 1926	7th January 1989	Emperor during World War II	Hirohito	74%
United States	20th January 1961	22nd November 1963	Last US president to be assassinated	John F. Kennedy	74%
Soviet Union	1927	5th March 1953	Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II	Joseph Stalin	74%
Soviet Union	11th March 1985	24th August 1991	Last leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	74%
Soviet Union	8th November 1917	21st January 1924	First head of government of Soviet Russia	Vladimir Lenin	74%
Kingdom of England	25th December 1066	9th September 1087	First Norman monarch of England	William I	74%
United States	4th March 1861	15th April 1865	President during the American Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	68%
United States	20th January 2009	20th January 2017	First African-American US president	Barack Obama	68%
Ancient Rome	49 BC	44 BC	Was killed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	68%
Ancient Rome	13th October 54	9th June 68	A famously tyrannical emperor	Nero	68%
Soviet Union	14th September 1953	14th October 1964	Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev	68%
United States	20th January 1969	9th August 1974	Only US president to resign	Richard Nixon	68%
United States	20th January 1981	20th January 1989	Was an actor prior to becoming US president	Ronald Reagan	68%
Prussia	15th June 1888	9th November 1918	German Emperor and King of Prussia during World War I	Wilhelm II	68%
Ancient Rome	16th January 27 BC	19th August AD 14	The first Roman emperor	Augustus	63%
Italy	31st October 1922	25th July 1943	Made himself Duce of Italian Fascism	Benito Mussolini	63%
France	8th January 1959	28th April 1969	Was previously the leader of Free France	Charles de Gaulle	63%
Yugoslavia	14th January 1953	4th May 1980	Was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II	Josip Broz Tito	63%
South Africa	10th May 1994	16th June 1999	First black head of state of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	63%
Ancient Egypt	c. 1334 BC	c. 1325 BC	Died while still young	Tutankhamun	63%
Kingdom of England	29th May 1660	6th February 1685	First monarch after the Interregnum	Charles II	58%
Kingdom of England	27th May 1199	19th October 1216	Signed the Magna Carta	John	58%
France	20th December 1848 - 2nd December 1852 (president)	2nd December 1852 - 4th September 1870 (emperor)	Last French monarch	Napoleon III	58%
United States	4th March 1913	4th March 1921	US president during World War I	Woodrow Wilson	58%
Kingdom of England	1016	1035	Was King of Denmark, England and Norway (known as the North Sea Empire)	Canute	53%
Ethiopian Empire	2nd April 1930	12th September 1974	Tried to modernise Ethiopia	Haile Selassie I	53%
China	20th March 1943	9th September 1976	Founder of the People's Republic of China	Mao Zedong	53%
Ancient Egypt	1279 BC	1213 BC	His successors called him the "Great Ancestor"	Ramesses II	53%
Kingdom of England	26th June 1483	22nd August 1485	Last king of the House of York	Richard III	53%
United States	14th September 1901	4th March 1909	Formed the "Bull Moose Party"	Theodore Roosevelt	53%
Kingdom of England	8th March 1702	1st May 1707	Last monarch of the House of Stuart	Anne	47%
Ancient Rome	25th July 206	22nd May 337	First Roman emperor to convert to Christianity	Constantine	47%
United States	4th March 1885 - 4th March 1889 (first presidency)	4th March 1893 - 4th March 1897 (second presidency)	Only US president to serve two nonconsecutive terms	Grover Cleveland	47%
Kingdom of England	19th December 1154	6th July 1189	Quarrelled with Thomas Becket	Henry II	47%
Babylonia	c. 1792 BC	c. 1750 BC	He is associated with a legal text	Hammurabi	42%
Egypt	14th October 1981	11th February 2011	Last president before the Egyptian Revolution of 2011	Hosni Mubarak	42%
United States	4th March 1837	4th March 1841	Only US president to speak English as a second language	Martin Van Buren	42%
Colombia	24th February 1819	4th May 1830	Led various modern South American countries to independence	Simón Bolívar	42%
United States	4th March 1869	4th March 1877	Led the Union Army during the American Civil War	Ulysses S. Grant	42%
Kingdom of England	18th March 978	1013	Known as "the Unready"	Æthelred	37%
France	21st May 1981	17th May 1995	Longest time spent in office of any French president	François Mitterrand	37%
Kingdom of England	5th January 1066	14th October 1066	Last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England	Harold II	37%
Ancient Rome	8th March 161	17th March 180	Was also a Stoic philosopher	Marcus Aurelius	37%
Ottoman Empire	August 1444	September 1446	Conquered Constantinople	Mehmed II	37%
Macedonia	359 BC	336 BC	Developed the Macedonian phalanx formation	Philip II	37%
China	7th May 247 BC	221 BC	The first emperor of a unified China	Qin Shi Huang	37%
Ottoman Empire	30th September 1520	6th September 1566	The longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	Suleiman I	37%
Ancient Rome	27th January 98	8th August 117	He ruled over the empire at its maximum territorial extent	Trajan	37%
Achaemenid Empire	29th September 522 BC	October 486 BC	Conquered areas such as Thrace, Macedonia and Egypt	Darius I	32%
Prussia	31st May 1740	17th August 1786	Reorganised the Prussian armies and had many military successes	Frederick II	32%
Egypt	23rd June 1956	28th September 1970	Led the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952	Gamal Abdel Nasser	32%
Kingdom of Aksum	c.590	-	Shares his name with a modern Middle Eastern country	Israel	32%
Ancient Egypt	2589 BC	2566 BC	Commissioned the construction of the Great Pyramid	Khufu	32%
Babylonia	c. 605 BC	c. 562 BC	The most powerful monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire	Nebuchadnezzar II	32%
Ancient Rome	205 BC (consul)	194 BC (consul)	He famously defeated Hannibal	Scipio Africanus	32%
Indonesia	27th March 1968	21st May 1998	Named his administration the "New Order"	Suharto	32%
Achaemenid Empire	October 486 BC	August 465 BC	Tried to conquer Greece	Xerxes I	32%
Achaemenid Empire	559 BC	530 BC	Founder of the empire	Cyrus II	26%
Ancient Rome	20th November 284	1st May 305	Retired to his palace in present-day Split, Croatia	Diocletian	26%
China	5th May 1260	18th February 1294	Founder of the Yuan dynasty	Kublai Khan	26%
Kingdom of Bavaria	10th March 1864	13th June 1886	He commissioned the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle	Ludwig II	26%
Ottoman Empire	c.1299	1323/1324	Founder of the Ottoman dynasty	Osman I	26%
Italy	17th March 1861	9th January 1878	First king of a united Italy	Victor Emmanuel II	26%
Ancient Egypt	c. 1353 BC	c. 1336 BC	Introduced Atenism	Akhenaten	21%
Kingdom of England	c. 886	26th October 899	Fought the Vikings at the Battle of Edington and won, leading to the creation of the Danelaw	Alfred	21%
Maurya Empire	c. 268 BC	c. 232 BC	Sent his Edicts to places throughout the empire	Ashoka	21%
Maurya Empire	c. 324/321 BC	c. 297 BC	Founder of the empire	Chandragupta Maurya	21%
Francia	c. 509	27th November 511	United the Frankish tribes under one rule	Clovis I	21%
France	20th June 1969	2nd April 1974	Has a building in Paris named after him	Georges Pompidou	21%
Ancient Egypt	c. 1479 BC	16th January 1458 BC	The second historically confirmed female pharaoh	Hatshepsut	21%
Ancient Rome	195 BC	-	Known as "the Elder"	Marcus Porcius Cato	21%
Japan	3rd February 1867	30th July 1912	Oversaw the transformation of Japan from a feudal state to a world power	Meiji	21%
Aztec Empire	1502/1503	1520	Was killed while Hernán Cortés and his men were taking over Tenochtitlan	Moctezuma II	21%
Romania	9th December 1967	22nd December 1989	Second and last Communist leader of Romania	Nicolae Ceaușescu	21%
China	2nd December 1908	12th February 1912	The last Qing emperor	Puyi	21%
Indonesia	18th August 1945	12th March 1967	First President of Indonesia	Sukarno	21%
Italy	9th May 1946	12th June 1946	Last King of Italy	Umberto II	21%
Mughal Empire	11th February 1556	27th October 1605	Under his reign, the empire grew to cover much of the Indian subcontinent	Akbar	16%
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	15th September 1697 - 1706 (first)	1709 - 1st February 1733 (second)	Known as "the Strong"	Augustus II	16%
Mughal Empire	20th April 1526	26th December 1530	Founder	Babur	16%
South Africa	15th August 1989	10th May 1994	Dismantled the apartheid system	F. W. de Klerk	16%
Ancient Rome	82 BC	79 BC	The first ruler of the Republic to seize power by force	Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix	16%
Ancient Rome	458 BC (dictator)	439 BC (dictator)	He gives his name to a society, which was itself the origin of the names of two US cities	Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus	16%
Ancient Egypt	c. 3100 BC	-	Unifier of Egypt	Narmer	16%
Ancient Egypt	305/304 BC	282 BC	Was one of the Diadochi	Ptolemy I Soter	16%
Mughal Empire	19th January 1628	31st July 1658	The Taj Mahal was built as a tomb for his favourite wife	Shah Jahan	16%
China	17th October 690	21st February 705	Only female monarch in Chinese history	Wu Zetian	16%
Mughal Empire	28th September 1837	21st September 1857	The last Mughal emperor	Bahadur Shah Zafar	11%
Ottoman Empire	16th June 1389	20th July 1402	Was defeated and captured by Timur at the Battle of Ankara	Bayezid I	11%
Ancient Egypt	c. 2686 BC	c. 2648 BC	Commissioned the construction of the first pyramid	Djoser	11%
Ethiopian Empire	10th March 1889	12th December 1913	The formation of Addis Ababa and the First Italo-Ethiopian War occurred during his reign	Menelik II	11%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	24th November 1965	16th May 1997	Changed the country's name to Zaire	Mobutu Sese Seko	11%
Colombia	4th August 1909	7th August 1910	Fought in several civil wars, and also shared his surname with the name of a Spanish city	Ramón González Valencia	11%
Kingdom of Hungary	1000/1001	1038	Was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians before becoming the first King of Hungary	Stephen I	11%
Japan	1603	1605	One of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan	Tokugawa Ieyasu	11%
France	10th May 1932	11th July 1940	Last president of the Third Republic	Albert Lebrun	5%
France	23rd September 1920	11th June 1924	Was nearly assassinated	Alexandre Millerand	5%
Abbasid Caliphate	10th June 754	6th October 775	Though not the first Abbasid caliph, he is typically considered as the real founder of the caliphate	Al-Mansur	5%
Achaemenid Empire	358 BC	338 BC	Reclaimed Egypt	Artaxerxes III	5%
Mughal Empire	31st July 1658	3rd March 1707	The empire became the world's largest economy under his reign, though he is also considered to be a controversial ruler	Aurangzeb	5%
Romania	15th March 1881	27th September 1914	First King of Romania	Carol I	5%
Francia	558	561	Gained the territories that had been given to his brothers	Chlothar I	5%
Aztec Empire	1520	1521	The last emperor of the Aztec Empire	Cuauhtémoc	5%
France	17th January 1895	16th February 1899	The Dreyfus affair occurred during his presidency	Félix Faure	5%
Romania	10th October 1914	20th July 1927	Ruled Romania during World War I	Ferdinand I	5%
Abbasid Caliphate	14th September 786	24th March 809	Established the House of Wisdom in Baghdad	Harun al-Rashid	5%
China	23rd January 1368	24th June 1398	Founder of the Ming dynasty	Hongwu Emperor	5%
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	November 1648	16th September 1668	He was made a cardinal before becoming king	John II Casimir	5%
France	30th January 1879	2nd December 1887	Seen as the first real republican President of France	Jules Grévy	5%
Ethiopian Empire	1181	1221	He gives his name to a town containing monolithic churches	Lalibela	5%
China	15th May 221	10th June 223	Fought the Yellow Turbans and in many subsequent battles	Liu Bei	5%
Ottoman Empire	March 1362	15th June 1389	Conquered most of the Balkans	Murad I	5%
Kievan Rus'	879	912	First Christian ruler of the Kievan Rus'	Oleg of Novgorod	5%
Kingdom of Bavaria	13th June 1886	5th November 1913	Never actively reigned, with his uncle Luitpold and his cousin Ludwig running the country	Otto	5%
Kingdom of Hungary	6th December 1305	1308	Was previously the Duke of Lower Bavaria	Otto III	5%
Inca Empire	1438	1471/1472	Transformed the Kingdom of Cusco into the Inca Empire	Pachacuti	5%
South Africa	9th May 1883	31st May 1902	Last South African president before the Second Boer War	Paul Kruger	5%
Francia	751	24th September 768	First Carolingian King of the Franks	Pepin	5%
Ancient Rome	14th April 193	4th February 211	Born in present-day Libya	Septimius Severus	5%
Ancient Rome	c. 578 BC	c. 535 BC	The sixth king of Rome	Servius Tullius	5%
Maratha Empire	1674	1680	Founder	Shivaji Bhonsale I	5%
Ancient Rome	22nd October 253	spring 260	Was taken captive by Shapur I	Valerian	5%
Kievan Rus'	11th June 980	15th July 1015	Expanded the borders of the territory of the Kievan Rus'	Vladimir Sviatoslavich	5%
China	c. 1046 BC	c. 1043 BC	The first king of the Zhou dynasty	Wu	5%
Kievan Rus'	1019	1054	The legal code of the Kievan Rus' was created during his reign	Yaroslav I	5%
Ottoman Empire	31st August 1876	27th April 1909	The last Sultan to exert effective control over the empire	Abdul Hamid II	0%
Ottoman Empire	22nd December 1603	22nd November 1617	The Blue Mosque was built during his reign	Ahmed I	0%
Aztec Empire	1486	1502	Shares his name with a legendary creature	Ahuizotl	0%
Prussia	10th April 1525	20th March 1568	The 37th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, and the first Duke of Prussia	Albert	0%
Abbasid Caliphate	27th September 813	7th August 833	Promoted the Graeco-Arabic translation movement	Al-Ma'mun	0%
Abbasid Caliphate	28th January 946	5th August 974	His reign represented the nadir of the caliphate	Al-Muti	0%
Ethiopian Empire	1314	1344	Greatly expanded the borders of the empire	Amda Seyon I	0%
Macedonia	-	370 BC	Founder of a unified Macedonian kingdom	Amyntas III	0%
Italy	11th May 1962	6th December 1964	First Sardinian to become head of state	Antonio Segni	0%
Japan	1338	1358	Founded the shogunate named after his clan's name	Ashikaga Takauji	0%
Inca Empire	1532	1533	Won the Inca Civil War in 1532, but was captured by Francisco Pizarro during the same year	Atahualpa	0%
Kingdom of Hungary	1060	1063	Known as "the Boxer"	Béla I	0%
Maurya Empire	c. 187 BC	c. 180 BC	Final emperor	Brihadratha Maurya	0%
Kingdom of Hungary	1301/1308	1342	The only son of Charles Martel	Charles I	0%
South Africa	31st May 1961	1st June 1967	First State President of the Republic of South Africa	C. R. Swart	0%
Ethiopian Empire	13th August 1507	2nd September 1540	The Ethiopian–Adal War began during his reign	Dawit II	0%
Kingdom of Aksum	c. 270	c. 300	One of the earliest rulers in the Horn of Africa to mint his own coins	Endubis	0%
Italy	1st January 1948	12th May 1948	First President of Italy	Enrico De Nicola	0%
Kingdom of Aksum	320s	c. 360	First Aksumite monarch to embrace Christianity	Ezana	0%
Egypt	28th April 1936	26th July 1952	Penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan	Farouk	0%
Ethiopian Empire	1632	18th October 1667	Made Gondar his capital, and may have founded the city	Fasilides	0%
Italy	3rd July 1985	28th April 1992	Labelled as "Iron Minister"	Francesco Cossiga	0%
Colombia	7th October 1832	1st April 1837	His surname is also the name of a city in Spain	Francisco de Paula Santander	0%
China	28th February 202 BC	1st June 195 BC	One of a small number of dynasty founders in Chinese history to have been born into a peasant family	Gaozu	0%
Japan	29th March 1318	18th September 1339	Overthrew the Kamakura shogunate and brought the Imperial House back into power, for a short while	Go-Daigo	0%
Japan	23rd August 1155	5th September 1158	The last de facto absolute monarch of Japan until 1868	Go-Shirakawa	0%
Colombia	13th June 1953	10th May 1957	Imposed martial law and established a dictatorship	Gustavo Rojas Pinilla	0%
Inca Empire	1493	1524	Ruled the empire at the height of its size and power	Huayna Capac	0%
Aztec Empire	1427	1440	First emperor of the Aztec Empire	Itzcoatl	0%
Yugoslavia	29th December 1945	14th January 1953	First president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Ivan Ribar	0%
Khmer Empire	802	835	Founder, shares his name with eight of the other kings	Jayavarman II	0%
Prussia	28th August 1618	23rd December 1619	His marriage to Duchess Anna made him Duke of Prussia and resulted in the creation of Brandenburg-Prussia	John Sigismund	0%
Colombia	1st April 1853	17th April 1854	Initially fought for the Royalist Army in the Independence Wars of Colombia, eventually joined the revolutionary forces then opposed the government after independence was attained	José María Obando	0%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	27th June 1960	24th November 1965	First president of what was known then as the Republic of the Congo	Joseph Kasa-Vubu	0%
Japan	30th April 781	9th April 806	Appointed the first Shōgun	Kanmu	0%
Japan	5th December 539	15th April 571	First historically verifiable emperor	Kinmei	0%
Kingdom of Hungary	1077	1095	A legend narrates his fight with a Cuman, who had abducted a Hungarian girl	Ladislaus I	0%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	17th May 1997	16th January 2001	Was formerly a revolutionary	Laurent-Désiré Kabila	0%
Inca Empire	1533	1544	Rebelled against the Spanish and founded the Neo-Inca State	Manco Inca Yupanqui	0%
Ancient Rome	396 BC (dictator)	367 BC (dictator)	He was given the title Second Founder of Rome	Marcus Furius Camillus	0%
South Africa	8th February 1860 - 20th June 1863 (Orange Free State)	22nd October 1866 - 20th November 1871	Founded Pretoria	Marthinus Wessel Pretorius	0%
Kingdom of Bavaria	1st January 1806	13th October 1825	First King of Bavaria	Maximilian I Joseph	0%
Babylonia	c. 1186 BC	c. 1172 BC	His existence is significant to Near Eastern chronology	Meli-Shipak II	0%
Kievan Rus'	1236-1240 (first)	1241-1243 (last)	Last autonomous senior prince of Kiev	Mikhail Vsevolodovich	0%
Japan	12th July 1192	9th February 1199	Founder of the Kamakura shogunate	Minamoto no Yoritomo	0%
Mughal Empire	27th September 1719	26th April 1748	He was a patron of the arts, but his reign was also marked by a rapid decline of the empire	Muhammad Shah	0%
Khmer Empire	1417	1431	Last king of the empire, moved to modern Phnom Penh sometime after fleeing Angkor	Ponhea Yat	0%
Ancient Rome	233 BC (consul)	208 BC (consul)	The originator of many tactics used in guerrilla warfare	Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus	0%
Kievan Rus'	1168	1170	Fought against the Cumans	Roman Mstislavich	0%
Japan	13th April 1735	9th June 1747	Was allowed by the Shōgun to restore some Imperial rites	Sakuramachi	0%
Maratha Empire	16th January 1681	11th March 1689	Was captured, tortured and executed by the Mughals	Sambhaji Bhosale	0%
Maurya Empire	c. 224 BC	c. 215 BC	He was a great patron of Jainism	Samprati	0%
Ottoman Empire	7th April 1789	29th May 1807	The Janissaries deposed and murdered this Sultan after he created a new infantry corps	Selim III	0%
Maratha Empire	12th January 1707	15 December 1749	Maratha power and influence extended to all corners of the Indian subcontinent during his reign	Shahu Bhosale I	0%
Ancient Egypt	943 BC	922 BC	Was a pharaoh of Berber descent	Shoshenq I	0%
Kingdom of Hungary	1387	1437	Was also crowned Holy Roman Emperor	Sigismund	0%
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	19th August 1587	30th April 1632	Invaded Russia and defeated the Ottomans	Sigismund III Vasa	0%
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	1st May 1576	12th December 1586	Repulsed a Russian invasion of the Commonwealth borderlands and secured the favourable Truce of Yam-Zapolsky	Stephen Báthory	0%
Japan	8th December 592	7th March 628	First empress regnant of Japan	Suiko	0%
Khmer Empire	1113	1150	Ordered the construction of Angkor Wat	Suryavarman II	0%
China	4th February 960	14th November 976	Founder of the Song dynasty	Taizu	0%
Colombia	1st April 1845 - 1st April 1849 (first presidency)	22nd May 1866 - 1st November 1867 (final presidency)	Was president of Colombia four times	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera	0%
China	17th July 1402	12th August 1424	Six of the Ming treasure voyages occurred during his reign	Yongle Emperor	0%
Kievan Rus'	1149	1151	Known as "the Founder of Moscow"	Yuri Dolgorukiy	0%

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