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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
What famous French general has an airport named after him?	None	Charles de Gaulle	100%
What was the name of racial segregation in South Africa?	1948-early 90s	Apartheid	97%
"Fat Man" dropped on which city, killing 60,000-80,000 people?	1945	Nagasaki	96%
What is widely accepted as the most famous Soviet gun?	None	AK-47	95%
Who was diagnosed fully deaf at 44, but still composed music?	1814-15?	Ludwig van Beethoven	95%
What music festival was advertised as "3 Days of Peace & Music"?	1969	Woodstock	95%
Which mountain erupted, killing over 1,500 people in the city of Pompeii?	79 CE	Mount Vesuvius	94%
Which infamous camp is now placed in the Polish city of Oświęcim?	None	Auschwitz	93%
Which country led a slave revolution, led by Toussaint Louverture?	1791-1804	Haiti	93%
What statue was made in 1876, soon to be gifted to America?	1876	Statue of Liberty	92%
What year did Hitler assume power?	?	1933	91%
Which country was Pope Francis born in?	1936	Argentina	91%
Who was the main Confederate general?	None	Robert E. Lee	90%
Operation Weserübung caused Germany to declare war on Denmark and what other country?	1940	Norway	88%
Which mystic is known for befriending Tsar Nicholas II?	1869-1916	Grigori Rasputin	84%
Which war against an animal did the Australians "lose" to?	1932	{Emu} War	83%
What city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?	1914	Sarajevo	83%
Which other country colonized the country of Equatorial Guinea?	None	Spain	83%
Which country practiced an isolationist government for over 250 years?	1603-1868	Japan	82%
What was the name for the communist organization in South Vietnam?	None	Viet Cong	79%
Which country is usually attributed to the invention of early chess?	7th Century	India	78%
Utah Beach and what other beach did the Americans land on D-Day?	1944	{Omaha} Beach	78%
What spacecraft is launched, becoming the first satellite in space?	1957	Sputnik	78%
"The Troubles" were a conflict fought on what island?	Late 1960s-1998	Ireland	76%
What year was Jesus crucified?	?	AD 30/35	75%
What was the capital to West Germany?	None	Bonn	75%
What territory was occupied and annexed by Russia, despite international backlash?	2014	Crimea	75%
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the Munich Massacre, the killing of 2 on which Olympic Team?	1972	Israel	75%
Which university is well known for being founded almost 400 years before the Aztec Empire was made?	1096	Oxford University	73%
Which president/prime minister led Zimbabwe from 1980-2017?	1924-2019	Robert Mugabe	71%
Which Axis power was the only one to gain land after WW2?	1945	Bulgaria	70%
What battle between Athens (and Plataea) and the Achaemenid Empire inspired a foot-race?	490 BC	Battle of {Marathon}	69%
What year did Abraham Lincoln assume office?	?	1861	68%
What war did the Eight-Nation Alliance (and others) fight the anti-western Chinese?	1899-1901	{Boxer's} Rebellion	68%
What city had a pyramid built for a burial site for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu?	3200 BCE	Giza	68%
What colony owned the Kowloon Walled City, accredited to being the most densely populated place in history?	1898?-1994	Hong Kong	68%
Who invented the printing press?	1393-1468	Johannes Gutenberg	68%
Which general said he would "return again" to the Philippines, later landing on the island of Leyte?	1944	Douglas MacArthur	67%
The Khyber Pass is an important pass in Pakistan for what road?	None	Silk Road	67%
What island is Napoleon exiled to, later dying there?	None	St. Helena	67%
Which area did the Israeli army capture from Syria during the Six-Day War?	1967	{Golan} Heights	66%
What country was defeated at the Battle of Puebla by Mexico, making Cinco de Mayo an American holiday?	1862	France	65%
According to the Odyssey, what New York city was named after the home of Odysseus?	None	Ithaca	64%
Which city did 7 popes live in for 70 years?	1309-77	Avignon	63%
Which battle during the Napoleonic Wars ensured British naval supremacy?	1805	Battle of {Trafalgar}	62%
Which "great" king was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" in 800 AD?	800 AD	Charlemagne	62%
Which king from Mali is falsely known as the "richest person ever"?	None	Mansa Musa	61%
Which military and political leader is known as "El Libertador"?	1783-1830	Simón Bolívar	61%
Which Australian city was bombed by the Japanese Airforce in WW2?	1942	Darwin	60%
Jim Jones and followers of his cult committed a mass-suicide in the town of Jonestown in what country?	1978	Guyana	60%
What capital city was founded in 1960, and today has over 4 million people?	1960	Brasilia	59%
Which country had kings named Farouk and Fuad?	None	Egypt	59%
What telegram was sent to Mexico during WW1, asking for entry into the war?	1917	{Zimmerman} Telegram	59%
What was the capital of the Inca Empire, which spanned much of the Andes?	None	Cusco	58%
Which royal family was known for having protruding chins, most likely caused by incest?	None	Habsburg	58%
The Nazi government proposed forcibly relocating European Jews to what island?	1940	Madagascar	58%
What country's Sudetenland was taken in the Munich Conference?	1938	Czechoslovakia	57%
Who is sometimes called the father of modern science?	1564-1642	Galileo Galilei	57%
What fictional island now sharing the name with a New York city was the home of Odysseus?	None	Ithaca	57%
What monument, built by the Khmer Empire, is the largest religious structure in the world?	None	Angkor Wat	56%
Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers fly their first plane?	None	Kitty Hawk	56%
Who declared their country in war to invade Iran in the early 80s?	1980-88	Saddam Hussein	55%
Which painter painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring?"	1665	Johannes Vermeer	54%
What U.S. state merged with the "Indian Territory"?	None	Oklahoma	54%
What "House of Wisdom" was burnt down in 1258 due to a Mongol siege of the city?	1258	{Baghdad} House of Wisdom	53%
Wan Hu is in legends for being the first "astronaut" by strapping what Chinese invention onto a chair?	Unknown	Fireworks	53%
What company got granted Prince Rupert’s Land in Canada for beaver fur?	1670-present	Hudson’s Bay Company	53%
Who helped Spain conquer the Inca Empire?	1478-1541	Francisco Pizarro	52%
The "Toledo War" was an American boundary dispute in between Ohio and which other state?	1835-36	Michigan	50%
What was the name of the operation where Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union?	1941	Operation {Barbarossa}	50%
Which Germanic tribe is responsible for the 455 Sack of Rome?	455	Vandals	50%
Which Scottish town did Pan Am Flight 103 crash into after it was bombed?	1988	Lockerbie	48%
Which American Revolutionary War figure is considered "The Father of the Continental Navy"?	None	John Paul Jones	45%
Which North African city was formerly an international zone?	1925-40 1945-56	Tangier	45%
What heraldic symbol is used for the House of Bourbon?	None	Fleur-de-Lis	44%
Which battle during WW1 was the longest lasting?	1916	Battle of {Verdun}	43%
What confederation was a German client state for Napoleon?	1806-13	Confederation of the {Rhine}	43%
Which part of Bulgaria was ceded to Greece after the Second Balkan War?	1913	Western Thrace	43%
What was the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony?	None	Dresden	42%
Which country used to start with the prefix "Trans", until stripping it away at independence?	1946	Jordan	42%
Which country was formerly under the name of Basutoland?	None	Lesotho	42%
During WW2, which forest was labeled as "impenetrable" by the French, which was later penetrated through by the Germans?	1940	Ardennes	39%
Who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader?	1914-84	Yuri Andropov	38%
Enver Hoxha was a communist dictator who led what country?	1908-85	Albania	35%
Which leader is famous for winning the Battle of Thermopylae?	518 BC-465 BC	Xerxes I	35%
What part of Germany had the British crown, ultimately having the British have ownership of the area?	1714	Hanover	33%
Who was the founder of the Yuan Dynasty?	1215-94	Kublai Khan	33%
Which part of Italy, under Count Camillo di Cavour, united Italy?	1848-71	Piedmont-Sardinia	32%
In Scandinavian languages, what is a term for a politician who is traitorous, named after the primary Norwegian Nazi collaborator?	None	Quisling	32%
CNT-FAI is an anarcho-syndicalist party in what country?	None	Spain	32%
The Outremer were formed as a result of which war?	1096-1099	First Crusade	30%
What is the main slogan used in the Occupy Wall Street movement?	2011	We are the {99%}	30%
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the communists and which government, led by Chiang Kai-shek?	1927-1949-present?	Kuomintang	28%
What did the Roman Empire call the Mediterranean Sea, literally "our sea"?	None	Mare Nostrum	26%
Which Chinese dynasty reigned from 618–907?	618–907	{Tang} Dynasty	25%
Who personifies the French Revolution and the French Republic?	None	Marianne	22%
Which country has/had breakaway states named Karen, Kachin, and Karenni?	None	Myanmar	22%
Who is known as the "Father of Microbiology"?	1632-1723	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	21%
Which country was the main victor of the Chaco War?	1932-35	Paraguay	18%
Which Russian composer composed "Dance of the Knights"?	1891-1953	Sergei Prokofiev	17%
Which of the heptarchy would unite England?	None	Wessex	16%
What is the name of the indigenous people that Columbus met with?	1492	Taíno	14%
Which modern-day capital was formerly known as Stalinabad?	None	Dushanbe	12%
What Mexican criminal syndicates' name literally means "The Zs" in Spanish?	1999-present	Los Zetas	12%
Who was the first president of South Korea?	1875-1965	Syngman Rhee	11%
What is the word for the first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire?	None	Vilayet	11%
Which place in the Nordics is permanently demilitarized after the Crimean War?	1856-present	Åland	10%
Maoists and Government forces fought in what country's civil war in the early 2000s?	1996-2006	Nepal	10%
Which city is responsible for bringing the Black Plague to Europe, due to the sieging Mongols throwing corpses over the city walls?	1347	Feodosia	9%
The shortest war in history took 38 minutes between the United Kingdom and what country?	1896	Zanzibar	9%
What Greek idea showed Greece annexing all territory bordering the Aegean Sea?	None	{Megali} Idea	8%
What was the only communist state in the Middle East?	1967-90	South Yemen	8%
What is the cultural capital of Indonesia?	None	Yogyakarta	8%
Which Arab king founded Saudi Arabia?	1875-1953	Ibn Saud	7%
“The Mad Baron” was which person, who made Mongolians believe he was the God of War after defecting to Mongolia because of the Russian Revolution?	1886-1921	Roman von Ungern-Sternberg	7%
Which Soviet commander was nicknamed "Red Napoleon"?	1893-1937	Mikhail Tukhachevsky	6%
Which Russian Puppet state had the capital of Kyzyl? (Hint: It starts with T)	1921-44	Tannu Tuva	6%
Which battle was fought between the Romans and Carthage, possibly being the largest naval battle in history?	256 BC	Battle of {Cape Ecnomus}	4%
Who was the founder of the Maruya Empire?	324-182 BC	Chandragupta Maurya	4%
What treaty of WW1 partitioned Ottoman land, only to be replaced by a new Treaty of Lausanne?	1920	Treaty of {Sèvres}	4%
Which pre-colonial kingdom had a white flag with a red X?	1390-1914	Kongo Kingdom	3%

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