Statistics for History General Knowledge - 2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
To what country were 165,000 British convicts transported to?	Australia	91%
In what year did the great depression start?	1929	89%
Who was assasinated on the Ides of March?	Julius Caesar	86%
What country was formerly known as Siam?	Thailand	85%
What Russian monk was assasinated on the 30th December 1916?	Grigori Rasputin	81%
Who was the second US president?	John Adams	81%
Against what city did Rome fight the Punic wars?	Carthage	77%
What Greek genius said "Eureka" in the bathtub, as he discovered how to work out the volume of the king's gold crown?	Archimedes	69%
On what island was Nelson Mandela imprisoned?	Robben	52%
In 1544, only reigning for 9 days, who was Britains shortest reigning monarch?	Lady Jane Grey	37%
Where did the great fire of London start?	Pudding Lane	31%
What parliament is claimed to be the oldest in existance?	Iceland	27%
Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and which other town?	Herculaneum	26%