Statistics for European History by Letter - O

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Thatcher, Hugh Grant and Stephen Hawking are some famous graduates from this English university.	Oxford	98%
Became the first Holy Roman Emperor in 962	Otto the Great	96%
Middle Eastern empire that ruled the Balkans for centuries	Ottoman Empire	94%
Sacred mountain in Greek mythology	Olympus	89%
Eastern European branch of Christianity	Orthodox church	89%
Major Mediterranean agricultural product obtained from the fruits of “Olea europaea” tree and cultivated for thousands of years	Olive Oil	88%
Sports event of the antiquity revived by Pierre de Coubertin	Olympics	84%
Important city in French history, located on the Loire river, liberated by Joan of Arc	Orléans	84%
Popular Roman poet (“Metamorphoses”)	Ovid	79%
Four-time Oscar winner, considered one of the greatest British actors of the 20th century (Laurence)	Olivier	77%
Name of five Norwegian kings	Olav/Olaf	65%
Poland’s Western border (named after two rivers), accepted by Germany only decades after WWII	Oder-Neisse line	51%
Influential protestant organization in Northern Ireland	Orange Order	34%
Irelands 19th century “liberator” (Daniel)	O'Connell	29%
Capital of Northern Irish county Tyrone, site of a deadly car bombing in 1998 carried out by the “Real IRA”	Omagh	24%
Two clans from Ulster who fought English rule in Ireland during the “Nine Years’ War” (name either)	O’Neill/O’Donnell	24%
The boy who refuses to grow in Günther Grass’ novel “The Tin Drum”	Oskar	22%
Right-wing French terror organization fighting Algeria’s independence, tried to assassinate Charles de Gaulle (three-letter acronym)	OAS (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète)	18%
His grab for power marked the end of the Western Roman empire	Odoacer	15%
Long-time anti-Mafia mayor of Palermo (Leoluca)	Orlando	14%