Statistics for History Quizhanger #5

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
First name of South American liberator Bolívar	(S)imon	90%
French General exiled to the island of St Helena in 1815	(N)apoleon	78%
Bloodiest D-day beach by casualties	(O)maha	77%
Nobility rank of the man whom the Sandwich is named for	(E)arl	76%
First name of Soviet Premier Khrushchev	(N)ikita	71%
First name of US President Grant	(U)lysses	70%
First name of Prime Minister Disraeli	(B)enjamin	66%
Surname of the Viking who became the first European to land in North America	(E)rikson	64%
The capital of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies before Italian Unification	(N)aples	52%
Italian Nationalist whom a biscuit with currants is named after	(G)aribaldi	41%
City of the first ‘Big Three’ conference in 1943	(T)ehran	40%
British protectorate that covered all the area that would become South Yemen	(A)den	38%
Author of ‘The rise and fall of the Roman Empire’	(G)ibbon	30%
English city where the historic Mappa Mundi is held	(H)ereford	30%
Roman Historian, author of ‘The Jewish War’ and ‘Antiquities of the Jews’	(J)osephus	29%
INVENTOR (FIRST NAME AND SURNAME)	Johannes Gutenberg	24%
Surname of the British Lawyer who divided British India in 1947	(R)adcliffe	21%
Name of the ship, captained by Sir John Franklin that carried his crew on the doomed 1845 expedition to navigate the north-west passage	(E)rebus	20%