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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Occupation of Jesus' father	Carpenter	66%
Solver of the Gordian Knot	Alexander the Great	53%
Another name for Uluru	Ayers Rock	45%
Name of an Egyptian city or Las Vegas hotel	Luxor	43%
Won independence from Ottoman Empire, 1830	Greece	40%
Mansa Musa's kingdom	Mali	36%
Hung Jesus on the cross	Pontius Pilate	36%
Killed in an Cholame car crash, 1955	James Dean	34%
Coined the term "military-industrial complex"	Dwight Eisenhower	25%
English king during the English Peasants' Revolt	Richard II	25%
Henry VIII's fifth wife	Catherine Howard	23%
British political scandal that involved osteopath Steven Ward	Profumo affair	19%
Henry VIII's court painter	Hans Holbein	17%
King whose death sparked the War of the Spanish Succession	Charles II	15%
Kentish peasant of the English Peasants' Revolt	Wat Tyler	15%
Type of ship of the above	Cruiser	13%
Standard issue German rifle during World War Two	Karabiner 98 kurz	13%
Scuttled in Montevideo harbor, 1939	Admiral Graf Spee	11%
"Battle of the Nations" took place here, 1813	Leipzig	11%
Contrary to popular belief, this city's naval guns weren't pointing the wrong way	Singapore	9%
Introductory year of the first automatic transmission	1940	8%
Operation to evacuate Dunkirk, 1940	Dynamo	8%
The Holy League's victorious naval battle against the Ottoman Empire	Lepanto	8%
Recipient of the phrase "We only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."	Margaret Thatcher	8%
Priestly leader of the English Peasants' Revolt	John Ball	4%
Founder of Lollardism	John Wycliffe	4%
Only assassinated British PM	Spencer Perceval	4%
Spanish colonization system used in South America	Encomienda	2%
Dynasty of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor	Hohenstaufen	2%
Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty	Saladin	2%
Venetian Doge from 1455 to 1538	Andrea Gritti	0%
Location of Prince Charles' investiture, 1969	Caernarfon Castle	0%
Hometown of the above person	Colchester	0%
Successor to Ivan IV Rurikovich	Fyodor I	0%
Founder of the Knights Templar	Hugh of Payns	0%
Hutu president during the Rwandan genocide	Juvénal Habyarimana	0%
Riot let by Paul Bogle in Jamaica, 1865	Morant Bay Rebellion	0%
Hung the lanterns in the Old North Church	Robert Newman	0%
Lower house of the Polish parliament	Sejm	0%