Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Colour of The Beatles’ submarine | Yellow | 99%
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Former country in the Balkans | Yugoslavia | 98%
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Jewish language emerging in the Middle Ages in Central Europe | Yiddish | 93%
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Russian president who stood on a tank and averted a coup in 1991 (Boris) | Yeltsin | 92%
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The “White Rose” of the royal houses in Britain | York | 91%
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Given name of cosmonaut Gagarin, the first man in space | Yuri | 90%
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WWI battle site in Belgium where the Germans used poison gas | Ypres | 73%
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Irish poet, dramatist, nationalist and senator (William Butler) | Yeats | 65%
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HMY Britannia is a famous example of this type of ship | Yacht | 61%
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Irish bacteriologist Adrian Stokes isolated the virus of this tropical disease in 1927 (but died from it) | Yellow fever | 58%
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Traditional winter festival in Scandinavia | Yule | 55%
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British TV presenter famous for her interviews “on the bed” in the 1990s (Paula) | Yates | 49%
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Four chemical elements are named after this Swedish mining village (name the village or any of the elements) | Ytterby (Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Terbium) | 42%
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How British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was dubbed | Yorkshire ripper | 37%
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Alternative name for 1816 AD which was exceptionally cold and led to crop failure and hunger | Year without a summer | 26%
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Former Ukrainian president poisoned with dioxine in 2004 (Viktor) | Yushchenko | 22%
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Oldest town on the Volga river and medieval principality (13th – 15th century) | Yaroslavl | 18%
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Most important Soviet aircraft manufacturer in WWII | Yakovlev | 12%
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Hero of the Greek war of independence (Alexander) | Ypsilantis | 11%
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Scandinavian royal house of the early Middle Ages, subject of a “skald” (old Norse poem) | Yngling | 8%
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