Statistics for European History by Letter D

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
System of government that originates from Athens	Democracy	98%
British royalty who died in a car accident in 1997	Princess Diana	96%
"On the Origin of Species" author	Charles Darwin	95%
Explosive invented by Alfred Nobel	Dynamite	94%
6 June 1944, Normandy	D-Day	92%
Surrealist Spanish painter	Salvador Dalí	82%
German city brutally bombed in 1945	Dresden	81%
British forces were evacuated from this French city in 1940	Dunkirk	79%
Leader of the French Resistance against Nazi Germany, later the president of France	Charles de Gaulle	74%
Ancient Greek town, the site of an oracle of Apollo	Delphi	68%
Title of Beninto Mussolini	Duce	65%
Leader of medieval Venice	Doge	61%
Portuguese explorer who reached India by sailing around Africa	Vasco da Gama	60%
Historical region located in Croatia, on the shore of the Adriatic sea	Dalmatia	58%
Erwin Rommel's nickname	The Desert Fox	53%