Statistics for European History by Letter - Q

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This “Don” is the protagonist of the greatest novel written in Spanish literature	Quixote	94%
The hunchback of Notre Dame	Quasimodo	89%
The increased use of this mineral in watches by Japanese competitors almost led to the end of Switzerland's watchmaking industry in the 1970s	Quartz	83%
To prevent the spread of the plague Venice introduced this 40-day-isolation for ships	Quarantine	80%
Arrow-bag important to English longbowmen in the Middle Ages	Quiver	68%
Norwegian Nazi leader (Vidkun)	Quisling	64%
Protestant denomination founded by George Fox	Quaker	63%
Hundreds of these exist in the area of Tuscan town Carrara, the most famous place to extract white marble	Quarry	59%
e.g. the british TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”	Quiz show	58%
British designer credited with the invention of the miniskirt (Mary)	Quant	49%
Breton city with a great history of pottery manufacturing	Quimper	45%
Supervised the treasury of Ancient Rome	Quaestor	30%
Younger brother of Marcus, Rome’s most famous orator, fought the Catilinarian conspiracy	Quintus Tullius Cicero	23%
Paris neighborhood and centre of the 1968 student uprising (French name)	Quartier latin	19%
Nickname of the French Foreign Ministry (because of its location)	Quai d'Orsay	18%
Peasant leader in the 1914 Albanian revolt (Haxhi)	Qamili	14%
Belgian astronomer and founder of the Brussels observatory (Adolphe)	Quetelet	14%
German family of business tycoons who profited heavily in the Nazi era through forced labour	Quandt	12%
Frankish trade centre near the English Channel (approx. 7th – 9th century)	Quentovic	12%
Roman rhetorician of the 1st century (“institutio oratoria”)	Quintilian	12%