Statistics for History of Morocco

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Country that once colonized that region	Spain	88%
Old-fashioned term for the North Africans who invaded Iberia	Moors	81%
Region that was invaded by Morocco in 1975	Western Sahara	79%
Capital of Morocco between 1727-1912	Fes	78%
Empire that annexed the region in 40 CE	Roman Empire	78%
The name "Morocco" derives from this city, that was the medieval capital of the above	Marrakesh	64%
Profession of the Barbary Corsairs	Pirate	64%
Many sources consider that city's "al-Qarawiyyin" as world's oldest, rather than the one in Bologna	University	64%
Ancient sea-faring civilization that colonized Morocco before 1000 BC	Phoenicia	60%
Founder of the Moroccan statehood, hint: first name of a famous Elba	Idris	55%
City that once was an international zone between 1924-1956	Tangier	52%
Last Muslim state in western Europe that was controlled by those people	Emirate of {Granada}	48%
Names of the two main stars in the movies "Casablanca"	Humphrey Bogart	48%
Ancient region of northern Morocco. Namesake of an African nation	Mauretania	47%
Morocco broke away from this caliphate after the Berber Revolt in 740	{Umayyad} Caliphate	45%
Moroccan explorer who travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, travelled from Morocco to Zanzibar, and from Constantinople to China	Ibn {Battuta}	37%
Names of the two main stars in the movies "Casablanca"	Ingrid Bergman	34%
Word starting with M, that refers to the old part of a town in North African countries	Medina	32%
King of Morocco, 1961-1999	Hassan II	26%
Moroccan empire that controlled much of southern Iberia between 1121–1269	{Almohad} Caliphate	16%