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Clue	Answer	% Correct
First Roman Emperor	(A)ugustus	81%
First name of Ronald Reagan’s wife	(N)ancy	79%
City of ‘The Colossus’ one of the seven wonders of the ancient world	(R)hodes	77%
Old name for Tokyo	(E)do	72%
Soviet Premier of the first name Leonid	(B)rezhnev	63%
Country formally known as Abyssinia	(E)thiopia	62%
President of Yugoslavia from 1953-1980	(T)ito	62%
First name of president Van Buren, the eighth US president	(M)artin	55%
Francis Drake sailed through this South American strait in his circumnavigation of the world 1577-1580	(M)agellan	47%
Famous Egyptian pharaoh who led the Egyptians to victory in the Battle of Kadesh	(R)ameses II	47%
Colonial name for Ghana	(G)old Coast	43%
Battle of the First World War pronounced ‘eep’	(Y)pres	43%
Turkish strait shelled in the Gallipoli campaign	(D)ardanelles	35%
Island off of North Carolina that Raleigh attempted to colonise in 1585	(R)oanoke	33%
Country that ruled Zanzibar from 1698 to the early 1900s	(O)man	29%
Author of ‘Down and out in Paris and London’	(O)rwell	28%
British colony from 1843-1910 containing Durban (half rhymes with cattle)	(N)atal	25%
BRITISH GENERAL (FIRST AND LAST NAME)	Bernard Montgomery	22%