Statistics for European History by Letter - Z

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Home town of the above	Zurich	96%
Airship named after its German inventor	Zeppelin	84%
German composer of many blockbuster movie scores from 1980 (Hans)	Zimmer	79%
Dalmatian city allegedly founded over 2900 years ago	Zadar (Zara)	72%
Led France to the World Cup 1998, ended his career by headbutting an opponent (Zinédine)	Zidane	70%
His “J’accuse” made the French government plunge into a crisis (Emile)	Zola	68%
Capital of the Kingdom of Aragon for almost 600 years	Zaragoza	65%
Popular Soviet WWII general (Georgy)	Zhukov	52%
Failed diplomatic attempt of Germany to form a military alliance with Mexico against the US in 1917	Zimmermann telegram	49%
Greek philosopher known for his “paradoxes”	Zeno of Elea	44%
German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovered this chemical element in 1789	Zirconium	43%
Bavarian Joseph Naus was the first to ascend Germany’s highest mountain in 1820	Zugspitze	37%
Strategically important Ukrainian city on the Dnepr river, bombed by Russia in the 2022 war	Zaporizhzhia	34%
Former bay in the Netherlands, cut off the sea by a dam in 1932, now a freshwater lake	Zuiderzee	29%
Legendary Czech long-distance runner who modernized training methods (Emil)	Zatopek	27%
Swiss reformator, got in a row with Luther (Huldrych)	Zwingli	22%
Grand Prince and progenitor of 23 kings of Hungary	Zoltan	17%
German revolutionary, communist parliamentarian and feminist (Carla, 1857-1933)	Zetkin	12%
Leader of Russia’s communist party who lost all his four bids for president (Gennadi)	Zyuganov	12%
Town in Western Ukraine, site of a Cossack attack in 1649, a WWI battle and a WWII massacre	Zboriv	9%