Statistics for Fairly Hard Random History quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Serbian born inventor of AC current	Nikola Tesla	82%
The famous American inventor who tried to run him out of business	Thomas Edison	82%
The man who led the first successful circumnavigation of the world (he died on the voyage)	Ferdinand Magellan	79%
French president after the second world war	Charles De Gaulle	76%
The former name of the Roman emperor Augustus	Octavian	74%
This city had two famous "defenestrations" (One started the thirty years war)	Prague	59%
The Bohemian precursor to Martin Luther (he was burnt at the stake in 1415)	Jan Hus	38%
The Dutch writer of "In Praise of Folly" (1511)	Deciderius Erasmus	21%
Gilgamesh's greatest friend who was sent to him by the Gods	Enkidu	21%
Hannibal's brother who died fighting in Italy during the Second Punic war	Hasdrubal	15%
The first President of Czechoslovakia	T.G Masaryk	15%
The Egyptian pharaoh who embraced monotheism and moved the capital to Amarna	Akhenaten	12%
The title given to Persian emperors which means "King of Kings"	Shahanshah	9%
the elite spear wielding military unit of Rome prior to the Marian reforms	Triarii	6%
The first "King of Kings" of the Sassanian Empire	Ardashir I	0%
A famous Czech historian and politician who wrote a history of the Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia (19th century)	František Palacký	0%

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