Statistics for Iranian History A-Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Greek ruler who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great	98%
I	Country Iran fought a bloody war against in the 1980s	Iraq	93%
N	Type of weapon Iran reached a deal for in 2015	Nuclear Weapon	90%
G	Modern-day country that was invaded by the Persian Empire in the 480s BC with an army reported to be 1 million strong	Greece	85%
O	Arch-rival of the Persians for centuries since the 16th century	Ottoman Empire	82%
F	Region where settled farming first emerged - it included southwestern Iran	{Fertile} Crescent	81%
M	Group of people who invaded the Iranian plateau in 1219, eventually reducing the population by 75%	The Mongols	81%
U	Country whose embassy Iran invaded in 1979, taking 52 hostages	United States	79%
J	Group C freed from their captivity in Babylonia, and helped them rebuild their land	Jews	77%
K	Shia cleric who was made Supreme Leader after the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini	77%
C	King who founded the Achaemenid Persian empire in the 500s BC	Cyrus the Great	75%
D	Ruled the Persian empire at its greatest extent around 500 BC	Darius the Great	75%
X	"Great" king who appears in the Bible under the name Ahasuerus	Xerxes the Great	74%
B	Universalist religion that was founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863	{Bahá'í} Faith	67%
Z	Prophet who founded a religion that is still practiced today by a small number	Zoroaster	67%
L	Spartan war general who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae against Persia	Leonidas	66%
W	Iran has won most of its Olympic medals at this sport	Wrestling	61%
P	Ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire	Persepolis	59%
Q	City that is a significant destination of Islamic pilgrimage since the 800s	Qom	56%
R	British writer K threatened with a death edict in 1989	Salman Rushdie	54%
T	Conqueror of the 1300s who killed 5% of the world's population; he was described as "the product of an Islamized and Iranized society"	Timur	50%
S	Last non-Islamic Persian empire that was conquered by the Muslims	Sasanian Empire	42%
H	German philosopher who called the Persians the "first Historical People"	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	35%
V	Title of a prime minister who was under the political authority of the Shah	{Vazir}-e Azam	33%
E	Ancient civilization in southwestern Iran that existed between 3300 – 539 BC	Elam	30%
Y	King of S during the Muslim conquest of Persia	{Yazd}egerd III	22%