Statistics for First kings

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Nation	Reign Start	Hint	Answer	% Correct
England	871	Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex who unified England	Alfred the Great	71%
France	509	Unified all Frankish kingdoms	Clovis I	71%
Germany	962	Considered the first Holy Roman Emperor, despite Charlemagne being crowned in 800	Otto I	71%
Iran	559 BC	Founder of the Achaemenid Empire	Cyrus the Great	48%
Turkey	1258	Founder of the Ottoman Empire	Osman I	48%
China	221 BC	First recorded emperor of all China, burned all history books and killed all historians just to be sure.	Qin Shi Huang	38%
Russia	862	Founded Novgorod, his son ruled the Kievan Rus'	Rúrik	38%
Norway	872	Unifier of Norway	Harald Fairhair	29%
Egypt	c 3100 BC	First pharaoh, merged Lower and Upper Egypt	Narmer / Menes	29%
Poland	1025	Turned the Duchy of Poland into a Kingdom	Bolesław I the Brave	24%
Denmark	836	First historical king	Gorm the Old	24%
Sweden	970	First king to rule over Svealand, Västergötland and Östergötland	Eric the Victorious	19%
Spain	718	First king of Asturias	Pelayo	19%
Hungary	895	Grand Prince who brought the Magyars to Central Europe	Árpád	14%
Japan	660 BC	Legendary founder of Japan	Emperor Jimmu	10%
Bulgaria	681	First Khan, brought the Bulgarians to Europe by defeating the Byzantines	Asparukh	5%