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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Year that World War II ended	1945	96%
Where Napoleon faced his final defeat	Waterloo	90%
City that was founded by Romulus and Remus	Rome	84%
Notable city wiped out by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD	Pompeii	82%
Legislation that King John signed in 1215	Magna Carta	81%
This notable person was killed on November 22, 1963	John F. Kennedy	80%
Name for Japanese pilots that would commit suicide dives onto their enemy's locations during WWII	Kamikaze	79%
Year that the Berlin Wall fell, reuniting the city	1989	78%
French peasant girl that became a military leader and ultimately a martyr for her faith	Joan of Arc	78%
Country that built and gifted the Statue of Liberty to the US	France	77%
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to summit...	Mount Everest	77%
Drug introduced to China by the British that led to two wars in the 19th century	Opium	77%
The last tsar of Russia	Nicholas II	75%
Country, led by King Leopold II, that colonized the Congo	Belgium	74%
Form of racial segregation in South Africa that was repealed in 1994	Apartheid	73%
Spying scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon	Watergate	73%
The US purchased this in 1867 for $7.2 million, a pretty good price by today's standard	Alaska	72%
His assassination was the last straw leading to the start of World War I	Franz Ferdinand	71%
What Woodrow Wilson said the US would not get involved in but ended up doing so just a few years later	World War I	71%
Pearl Harbor: A day that will live in ______	Infamy	70%
Country in the Americas that Nazis fled to in attempt to avoid prosecution of war crimes as a result of WWII	Argentina	69%
Philosopher who was the tutor to a teenaged Alexander the Great	Aristotle	69%
In 1996, this sheep became the first mammal to be successfully cloned	Dolly	67%
Four Great Chinese Inventions: Paper, Printing, Compass, and ___________	Gunpowder	66%
The first European to reach Hawaii, where he would be killed a year later	James Cook	66%
Most notable element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie	Radium	66%
Russian mystic and holy man that became friendly and influential with the last Tsar	Rasputin	66%
The Parthenon was dedicated to this Greek goddess	Athena	64%
Number of years the Third Reich of Germany was supposed to last	1,000	63%
His most famous works include the sculpture of David and painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	63%
Person credited with being first to circumnavigate Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	62%
Country where Joseph Stalin was born	Georgia	60%
Although it is disputed, scholars believe that he was killed between 30-33 AD	Jesus Christ	60%
The 37th parallel is used to divide this peninsula	Korean	60%
City where Muhammad died in 632 AD	Medina	60%
Originally, Australia was established as this type of colony	Penal	60%
Route taken by Marco Polo on his journey to China	Silk Road	60%
The first person to reach outerspace	Yuri Gagarin	59%
City where the RMS Titanic was built	Belfast	57%
Island chain that was the subject of a war between the UK and Argentina	Falkland Islands	57%
"Just say no" was the slogan of this former US first lady speaking on the war against drugs	Nancy Reagan	57%
British PM before Churchill that was responsible for appeasement to Hitler in hopes to avoid any conflicts (it did not go as he had hoped)	Neville Chamberlain	57%
Operation Desert Storm was part of this war	Gulf War	56%
Rome's foe during the Punic Wars	Carthage	55%
This real estate mogul shocked the world with his major political election victory in 2016	Donald Trump	55%
First woman to be Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi	55%
This facility found in southern Poland was the largest of the concentration and death camps used by the Nazis during WWII	Auschwitz	54%
Famed mariner Edward Teach was better known as....	Blackbeard	54%
Upon her marriage in 1956, American actress Grace Kelly became a princess in this European country	Monaco	54%
The smallest province of Australia is named after this Dutch explorer	Abel Tasman	52%
Toussaint Louverture led a successful revolution for this country	Haiti	52%
Country known as the graveyard of empires	Afghanistan	51%
Island that Napoleon was exiled to in 1814 until he escaped not even 10 months later	Elba	51%
Of Henry VIII's wives, there were 3 Catherines, 2 Annes and 1 ____	Jane	51%
D-Day was a massive attack by joint allied forces that targeted this coastal region of France	Normandy	51%
In 2002, this traditionally neutral country finally decided to join the United Nations	Switzerland	50%
US general that upheld his promise to return to the Philippines	Douglas MacArthur	49%
Upon his ultimate creation he said "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"	J. Robert Oppenheimer	49%
Roman emperor, known to be crazed, attempted to make his horse a Roman consul	Caligula	48%
The motto for the monarch of the United Kingdom is written in this language	French	48%
The dodo bird was last seen on this island country before being declared extinct	Mauritius	48%
Route that Harriet Tubman used to smuggle slaves into free states	Underground Railroad	48%
He flew the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 in what would be the first ever transatlantic flight	Charles Lindbergh	46%
This virtual currency was created in 1999 and became physical currency in 2002	Euro	46%
Economic and social campaign led by Mao Zedong that led to the deaths of an estimated 45 million people due to starvation and overworking	Great Leap Forward	46%
Family represented by the Red Rose during the War of the Roses	Lancaster	46%
Modern day country where a meteor struck that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago	Mexico	46%
Prior to becoming what is known today as France, it was called this by the Romans	Gaul	45%
The only US president to serve non-consecutive terms	Grover Cleveland	45%
Country that claimed responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing of Pan-Am flight 103	Libya	45%
This music virtuoso died in 1791 at the early age of 35 most likely due to illness	Mozart	45%
Native American that helped navigate Lewis and Clark on their westward expedition	Sacagawea	45%
This modern-day country is regarded as the center of the Maya Empire	Guatemala	44%
This man built the first European settlement on what is now Greenland	Leif Erikson	44%
Before it became independent, Bangladesh was known as...	East Pakistan	43%
Although allotted to Italy as a colonial territory, this African country fought back before the Italians could take control and successfully defended their independence in 1896	Ethiopia	43%
Former mayor of New York City that is the namesake of a large airport there	Fiorello La Guardia	43%
Fundamentalist military organization that has been the de facto governing authority in the Gaza Strip since 2007	Hamas	43%
You should always remember where Davey Crockett and his men were executed by enemy soldiers	The Alamo	43%
Under British colonization, this country was referred to as South Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	43%
Number of justices that sit on the US Supreme Court	Nine	42%
In April of 1960, this now world capital was finally built and inaugurated	Brasilia	39%
When one refers to redcoats, they are speaking about British troops fighting in this war	American Revolutionary War	37%
Conquistador that toppled the Inca Empire	Francisco Pizarro	37%
Billionaire media tycoon that served as Italian Prime Minister first in 1994	Silvio Berlusconi	37%
He was forced to flee Tibet in 1959 as Chinese forces moved in to take over control	Dalai Lama	36%
City where the first Olympics were held	Olympia	36%
A peace agreement was struck on this holiday in 1998 to end the violence in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles"	Good Friday	34%
Eli Whitney was notable for this invention that greatly sped up the ability to harvest a significant cash crop	Cotton Gin	32%
This was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 to free all slaves in the Confederate States of America	Emancipation Proclamation	31%
British military campaign in Turkey during WWI that was a resounding failure that resulted in many deaths of Allied troops with no gain of any land	Gallipoli	31%
This last Muslim state in Spain finally fell in 1492 due to the efforts of the Reconquista	Granada	31%
Norwegian explorer known to be the first man to reach the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	29%
A long time ago, all of the seven continents used to be connected into one large land mass that is known as...	Pangaea	27%
Prime Minister of Japan during most of WWII, later hanged after being indicted on war crimes	Hideki Tojo	26%
Massacre of Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers by Imperial Japanese forces starting in late 1937 with the death toll estimated to be over 300,000 in just 2 months	Rape of Nanjing	22%
This country is the site of the WWII Battle of Guadalcanal, known for how much blood was shed for such a small island	Solomon Islands	21%
This country recently made their national golf course open to the public for the first time. It is notable because the definitely legitimate course record is 38 under par (with 11 holes-in-one!), set by the then leader in his first ever round of golf	North Korea	20%
The Orange Revolution took place in this country as a result of alleged voter fraud stemming from a run-off for the presidential vote	Ukraine	20%
The longest ruling dynasty of China, ruling for 789 years from 1046-256 BC (hint: it was split into two periods)	Zhou Dynasty	8%