Statistics for History General Knowledge #14

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?	Amelia Earhart	93%
Who was the author of the Communist Manifesto?	Karl Marx	91%
Who was the founder of the Mongol Empire?	Genghis Khan	85%
Who was the first female prime minister of the UK?	Margaret Thatcher	84%
What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?	Constantinople	80%
Who was the first female ruler of Russia?	Catherine the Great	78%
What ship did the pilgrims arrive on in 1620?	Mayflower	76%
What main war was a partial effect of the Treaty of Versailles?	World War II	69%
Which explorer first circumnavigated the world?	Ferdinand Magellan	65%
Who was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	Nikita Khrushchev	65%
Who was the first Emperor of Rome?	Augustus Caesar	56%
What event marked the beginning of World War I?	Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand	49%
Who was the first explorer to reach India by sea?	Vasco de Gama	47%
What was the name of the first English settlement of North America?	Jamestown	44%
Who was the first female leader of England?	Queen Mary I	33%
Who was the longest reining pharaoh of Egypt?	Ramses II	25%
What was the main goal of the crusades?	Reclaim Jerusalem	24%
What was the name of the ship that sank during WWI that became a symbol of the tragedy of war?	RMS Lusitania	13%
Which ancient civilization invent the concept of zero?	The Mayans	13%