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A bad boy of the Holocaust. Kidnapped from his hideaway in Argentina by the Mossad and hanged for being a naughty boy, in1962. | Adolf Eichmann | 100%
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US aviatrix who flew too close to the sun over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. | Amelia Earhart | 100%
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Russian film-maker. Directed the 1925 film 'Battleship Potemkin', 'Alexander Nevsky' (1938) and 'Ivan the Terrible' (1944 and 1958). | Sergei Eisenstein | 100%
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How does the German word 'Edelweiss' translate into English? | A combination of 'noble' and 'white' | 92%
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US general. Commanded the US Eighth Army in the Southwest Pacific Area in WWII. | Robert L. Eichelberger | 92%
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A New Zealand mountaineer climbed this in 1953 because it was there. | Mount Everest | 85%
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"Okay, we'll go." | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 77%
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This western Europe city is a hub of technology and design. It is the hometown of the Philips electronics company. | Eindhoven | 77%
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French clergyman.The chief political theorist of the French Revolution. His pamphlet 'What is the Third Estate?' became the political manifesto of the Revolution. He was amongst the instigators of the coup that gave the world Napoleon Bonaparte. | Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes | 54%
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Inconclusive battle of the First English Civil War in 1642. Neither side really knew what they were doing. The Prince of Wales and Duke of York ended up hiding under a tree together as the fight sputtered and coughed and went nowhere. This farce saw the end of any chance of a compromise between the royalists and parliamentarians and the 'Hater of Fun' reared his ugly head soon after. | Battle of Edgehill (Edge Hill) | 46%
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