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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who developed the Theory of Evolution?	Charles Darwin	96%
What was the name for the UK's decision to leave the EU?	Brexit	94%
What is the oldest university in England	Oxford	94%
Who was said to have been born on December 25th in Bethlehem?	Jesus Christ	93%
What was the period of tensions between the US and USSR called?	Cold War	92%
Who was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011?	Osama Bin Laden	92%
What did protestors dump into Boston Harbor in 1773?	Tea	92%
What U.S. territory was purchased from Russia?	Alaska	91%
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?	Michelangelo	91%
What building near Washington D.C was attacked on 9/11?	Pentagon	91%
Who was the Norse god of thunder?	Thor	91%
What large ship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912?	Titanic	91%
What pharaoh's tomb was discovered completely intact in 1922?	Tutankhamun	91%
What navigational device was invented in China around 200 BC?	Compass	90%
What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s?	Dodo Bird	90%
Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?	Franz Ferdinand	90%
Who explained the Three Laws of Motion?	Isaac Newton	90%
What cathedral's construction began in Paris in 1163?	Notre Dame	90%
What language was the Torah written in?	Hebrew	89%
What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"?	Ivan IV	89%
Who was the first female British Prime Minister?	Margaret Thatcher	89%
What city is considered to be the world's first democracy?	Athens	88%
Where was the worst nuclear power disaster in history?	Chernobyl	88%
What economic event began in 1929?	Great Depression	88%
Who started the Protestant Reformation?	Martin Luther	88%
In what city was Muhammad born?	Mecca	88%
What group of people conquered most of Asia in the 1200s?	Mongols	88%
What volcano destroyed Pompeii?	Mount Vesuvius	88%
Who supposedly founded Rome with his brother Remus?	Romulus	88%
What was the name given to the flu outbreak of the 1918-1920?	{Spanish} Flu	88%
Who painted "The Starry Night"?	Vincent van Gogh	88%
Who, along with Friedrich Engels, developed Communism?	Karl Marx	87%
What boxer famously said "I am the greatest"?	Muhammad Ali	87%
What peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014?	Crimea	86%
What island was settled by Vikings in 874?	Iceland	86%
What was the name of South Africa's system of segregation?	Apartheid	85%
What battle was Napoleon's downfall?	Battle of {Waterloo}	85%
What is the oldest college in the United States?	Harvard	85%
What country fought against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War?	Israel	85%
What sainted female warrior led French armies during the Hundred Years' War?	Joan of Arc	85%
What African island was settled around 400 AD by people from Borneo?	Madagascar	85%
What was Adolf Hitler's autobiography?	Mein Kampf	85%
What empire conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines?	Ottoman Empire	85%
What famous structure was built around 3000 BCE in England?	Stonehenge	85%
What empire was ruled by Montezuma?	{Aztec} Empire	84%
In what country did the Soviet Union place nuclear missiles in 1962?	Cuba	84%
What islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?	Falkland Islands	84%
On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin?	Great Britain	84%
What was ancient Egypt's substitute for paper?	Papyrus	84%
What crop suffered a devestating blight in Ireland in 1845?	Potato	84%
Who led Iraq during the Gulf War?	Saddam Hussein	84%
Who led the the Indian independence movement against the British?	Mahatma Gandhi	83%
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?	Mikhail Gorbachev	83%
What French region was William the Conquerer from?	Normandy	83%
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?	Amelia Earhart	82%
What was the tallest building in the world in 1940?	Empire State Building	82%
In what city were Nazi war criminals prosecuted?	Nuremburg	82%
What is the name of the plague that caused the Black Death?	{Bubonic} Plague	81%
Who is the Egyptian god of the sun?	Ra	81%
What Austrian neurologist famously studied dreams?	Sigmund Freud	81%
What palace was the home of Louis XIV?	Versailles	81%
Who led his elephants across the Alps to invade Roman Italy?	Hannibal	80%
What queen of France was born in Austria?	Marie Antoinette	80%
What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics?	Rosetta Stone	80%
What is Siddhartha Gautama better known as?	Buddha	79%
What group of nomadic peoples was led by Atilla?	Huns	79%
What city burned down in 1666?	London	79%
What Portuguese territory was returned to China in 1999?	Macau	79%
What territory did Britain acquire as a result of the Opium Wars?	Hong Kong	78%
Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?	Ludwig Van Beethoven	78%
What country colonized Angola?	Portugal	78%
Who replaced Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer in 1962?	Ringo Starr	78%
What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?	Eiffel Tower	77%
What city is usually considered to be the birthplace of the Renaissance?	Florence	77%
Who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564?	William Shakespeare	77%
What series of protests caused the overthrow of many Middle Eastern governments in the 2010s?	Arab Spring	76%
What Paris prison was stormed in 1789?	Bastille	76%
What religious movement was founded by Joseph Smith?	Mormonism	76%
What Asian country was annexed by the United States in 1898?	Philippines	76%
Who founded the Academy at Athens?	Plato	76%
Who was the first person in space?	Yuri Gagarin	76%
What city was the Temple of Solomon built in?	Jerusalem	75%
What island's "Colossus" was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?	Rhodes	75%
What was the former name of Thailand?	Siam	75%
What city was conquered by Greeks in "The Iliad"?	Troy	75%
What was first successfully tested near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903?	Airplane	74%
Who invented dynamite?	Alfred Nobel	74%
Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"?	Charles Dickens	73%
What was the Roman name for France?	Gaul	73%
What explorer was killed by Hawaiians in 1779?	James Cook	73%
Who "Fiddled while Rome burned"?	Nero	73%
What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City?	Saigon	73%
Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence?	Simon Bolivar	73%
Where did Roald Amundsen become the first person to reach in 1911?	South Pole	73%
What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra?	Taj Mahal	73%
What animal went extinct on a Siberian island around 1650 BC?	Wooly Mammoth	73%
Who was the first Roman Emperor?	Augustus	72%
What game was invented in India, then adapted by the Muslim world?	Chess	72%
What is the Flavian Amphitheater better known as?	Colosseum	71%
What system had vassals borrowing land from lords in exchange for military service?	{Feudal}ism	71%
Who was emperor of Japan in WWII?	Hirohito	71%
Who discovered Polonium?	Marie Curie	71%
What empire was conquered by Alexander the Great?	Persia	71%
Who discovered Jupiter's moons?	Galileo	70%
What organization of countries was formed in the aftermath of WWI?	League of Nations	70%
What European explorer famously met with Kublai Khan?	Marco Polo	70%
What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul?	Orient Express	70%
What Phoenician colony was founded in modern-day Tunisia in 814 BC?	Carthage	69%
Who played "The Tramp" in early silent films?	Charlie Chaplin	69%
What river in Pakistan was home to one of the world's earliest societies?	Indus	69%
What Biblical patriarch is considered to be the father of Judaism?	Abraham	68%
What empire built Angkor Wat?	Khmer	68%
Who was in charge of lighting the gunpowder in the Gunpowder Plot?	Guy Fawkes	67%
Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon?	Isabella	67%
What African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?	Jesse Owens	67%
What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States?	Slavery	67%
What disease devastated the Incan Empire shortly before Pizzarro's conquest?	Smallpox	67%
Who invented the printing press?	Johannes Gutenberg	66%
Who killed John F. Kennedy?	Lee Harvey Oswald	66%
What was the name of Mao Zedong's economic plan that resulted in mass starvation?	Great Leap Forward	65%
What was the second North American country to gain independence?	Haiti	65%
What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia?	Krakatoa	65%
What temple was dedicated to all Roman Gods?	Pantheon	65%
What was the largest German state when Germany was united in 1871?	Prussia	65%
What was the largest church in Constantinople?	Hagia Sophia	64%
What region was home to the Sumerians and Babylonians?	Mesopotamia	64%
What Saharan city was an important trading post in the Mali and Songhai empires?	Timbuktu	64%
Who was the world's first U.S. dollar billionaire?	John D. Rockefeller	61%
What king signed the Magna Carta?	King John	61%
What country broke into civil war between Republicans and Nationalists in 1936?	Spain	61%
What famed city of gold was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime?	El Dorado	60%
Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"?	Richard Wagner	59%
What city was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906?	San Francisco	59%
What explorer found a route from Portugal to India?	Vasco da Gama	59%
What was the first country to declare independence from the USSR?	Lithuania	58%
What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray?	Nikola Tesla	58%
What British officer famously helped in the Arab Revolt?	T.E. Lawrence	58%
Who was the first U.S. Secretary of State?	Thomas Jefferson	58%
What ancient people built a civilization on Crete?	Minoans	57%
What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad?	Harriet Tubman	56%
What modern country was the site of Columbus's first landing in the New World?	Bahamas	55%
In the Wars of the Roses, which house was the enemy of the Lancasters?	House of York	55%
Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?	Maximilien Robespierre	55%
What British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915?	RMS Lusitania	55%
What insect was domesticated by the Egyptians?	Bee	54%
Who was the first person to set foot on the top of Mount Everest?	Edmund Hillary	54%
What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?	Richmond	54%
What war's final battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815?	War of 1812	54%
What was Eli Whitney's most famous invention?	Cotton Gin	53%
What period of human history means "New Stone Age"?	Neolithic	53%
The Chelyabinsk object made news in 2013? What was it?	a Meteor	51%
What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755?	Lisbon	51%
What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower?	Plymouth	49%
What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas?	Jamestown	48%
What island was seriously devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017?	Puerto Rico	48%
What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations?	Prague	47%
Who was named Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800 AD?	Charlemagne	46%
What country was led by Maria Theresa?	Austria	45%
What was the first country to give women the right to vote?	New Zealand	45%
What Muslim leader conquered Jerusalem in 1187, inspiring the Third Crusade to take it back?	Saladin	45%
What Native American woman helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition?	Sacagawea	44%
What country broke apart in the Velvet Divorce?	Czechoslovakia	43%
What European city's Muslim rulers built the Alhambra?	Granada	43%
What country was formerly known as Joseon?	Korea	41%
In what Greek city-state were the ancient Olympics held?	Olympia	41%
What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s?	Venice	38%
What emperor led the Byzantine Empire during its period of greatest size?	Justinian	35%
On what holiday did a tsunami strike Indian Ocean countries in 2004?	Boxing Day	34%
In what battle did the Franks stop the spread of Islam in Europe?	Battle of {Tours}	31%
In what modern-day country would you find the ancient city of Tikal?	Guatemala	29%
Whose improvements to the steam engine helped to launch the Industrial Revolution?	James Watt	29%
What was the dominant empire in West Africa in 400 AD?	Ghana	27%
Who was the Great Pyramid of Giza built for?	Khufu	24%
Who won the War of the Pacific, also known as the Saltpeter War?	Chile	23%
What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer" in 1816?	Mount {Tambora}	17%
What Greek astronomer developed the best-known geocentric model of the solar system?	Ptolemy	17%
What was the first empire to unite India?	{Maurya} Empire	16%