Statistics for History General Knowledge #13

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which English capitain was killed in 1779 while attempting to kidnap Hawaii's monarch?	James Cook	66%
Which crusade culminated with the sack of Constantinople ?	The Fourth Crusade	66%
Before Wellington, what was the capital of New Zealand (1841-1865)?	Auckland	58%
The Seven Cities of Cibola, searched by Vázquez de Coronado, were supposed to be full of...	Gold	49%
What was the capital of the Portuguese Vice-Kingdom in Asia from 1510 to 1843?	Goa	21%
Kingdom of Aksum was an empire, from 80 BC to AD 825, centered in the actual state of...	Eritrea	16%
What was the Dutch name of Jakarta?	Batavia	13%
In which actual Oceanian state there was the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides?	Vanuatu	13%
Which ancient Egyptian pharaoh abandoned traditional polytheistic religion?	Akhenaton	11%
Name the most famous ancient city in the south-eastern of Zimbabwe	Great Zimbabwe	8%
What was the last Persian imperial dynasty before the Muslim conquest?	Sassanid Empire	7%
Who was the first explorer to conquer the Northwest Passage solely by ship?	Roald Amundsen	6%
Louise of Savoy was the mother of French king...	Francis I of France	3%
Who was the first European (Dutch) contact with Easter Island in 1722?	Jacob Roggeveen	1%
In VIII century, who wrote Historia Langobardorum (history of the Lombards)?	Paul the Deacon	1%