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Question	Answer	% Correct
If a samurai failed to follow the code, what was the name for their suicide ritual?	Seppuku	95%
What is the name for the samurai’s code?	Bushido	94%
What is a samurai without a lord called?	Ronin	92%
What is a daimyo?	A samurai lord	87%
What political period eliminated the samurai as a class in 1868?	The Meiji Restoration	83%
The samurai used many different weapons, but which one particular weapon was placed above all the others?	Katana (sword)	79%
Which samurai launched the invasions to conquer the Korean Peninsula and China in 1592?	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	76%
What was the name of an African slave and later samurai who was brought to Japan in 1579?	Yasuke	76%
What was the name of the conflict that was fought between the powerful Minamoto and Taira clans from 1180 to 1185?	Genpei War	65%
Which samurai, at the age of 60, was granted the title of shogun by Emperor Go-Yozei and he built up his capital at Edo (now Tokyo) in 1603?	Tokugawa Ieyasu	65%
Which ninja was known as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's vassals?	Hattori Hanzo	63%
Which samurai wrote "The Book of Five Rings", that is still read today for insight into his tactics and philosophy?	Miyamoto Musashi	63%
What was the preferred weapon of the onna-bugeisha, Japan’s female warriors?	Naginata (spear)	60%
Which samurai lost sight in his right eye due to smallpox as a child and was known as the One-Eyed Dragon?	Date Masamune	59%
There were Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Which one is not among them?	Date Masamune	59%
What is traditional Japanese clothing is hakama?	Trousers	59%
According to etymologists, what does the term “samurai” mean?	A servant to the nobility	57%
What was likely the last samurai battle?	Battle of Shiroyama	56%
What are the names of the rebellious or autonomous groups of people that were formed in several regions of Japan in 15th and 16th centuries?	Ikko-ikki	56%
What were the 47 Ronin famous for?	Their ultimate loyalty to their master	56%
Who was the great English samurai who started off as a sailor and then served the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 1600s?	William Adams	56%
Which samurai defeated Oda Nobunaga?	Akechi Mitsuhide	52%
What is wakashudo?	The samurai practice of taking a young, male lover	48%
According to some sources, who was one of the earliest onna-bugeisha, or female samurai warriors?	Empress Jingu	22%