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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1095, Pope Urban II tells the people of Europe to go on the first of many ________________ to save the Holy Land. It results in more raping and pillaging than saving.	Crusades	89%
1066, Every English student should know this event. The French actually win this battle on English soil or are they really Norse.	Battle of Hastings	85%
1347, Spreading across Europe, it wipes out about half the population causing a labour shortage and helping end feudalism.	Black Death	85%
1492, He sailed the ocean blue bringing small pox to the Americas and returning to Europe with syphilis.	Christopher Columbus	83%
1603, An English playwright creates his masterpiece, Hamlet.	William Shakespeare	82%
1859, On the Origin of Species is published for the first time and the American religious right is still upset. Name the author.	Charles Darwin	80%
1664, An apple falling on his head inspires him to write the Principia Mathematica and establish classical physics.	Isaac Newton	80%
1215, A bunch of nobles force King John to sign this piece of paper. Apparently this is the start of English democracy despite the lack of input from the peasantry.	Magna Carta	80%
1271, This Venetian finds the Silk Road to China, spends time with the Kublai Khan and returns home in time to be thrown in jail.	Marco Polo	78%
1517, This monk nails a few theses to a church door and starts a series of religous wars lasting at least 400 years.	Martin Luther	78%
1939, World War II begins when Germany invades this country and the West finally responds. Russia joins Germany in yet again partitioning this country.	Poland	78%
1969, Buzz Aldrin lost the coin toss and followed this man on the moon.	Neil Armstrong	77%
1206, He starts to create the world's largest land empire and goes on to become the ancestor of 1 in 200 people today.	Genghis Khan	76%
1913, The auto assembly line is introduce and workers can actually afford their own product when this man gives them a living wage of $5 a day.	Henry Ford	75%
1808, The world's most recognized piece of classical music, the Fitfh Symphony (especially the introduction), is composed by this man.	Ludwig van Beethoven	75%
1876, This invention is patented and teenage girls are forever grateful as they can gossip into the night.	Telephone	75%
1839, Louis Daguerre goes public with this invention; its highly unlikely he would imagine the plethora of teen selfies that would emerge from it.	The Photograph	75%
1945, For debatable reasons, the US dropped an atomic bomb on these two cities.	Hiroshima and Nagasaki	74%
1815, There is no mention of this battle in the French military museum despite a hallway commerating all Napoleon's other battles.	Battle of Waterloo	73%
1879, The night skies are ruined forever as Edison perfects this.	Electric Light Bulb	73%
1885, Chicago builts the first of this type of building which now "grace" city skylines everywhere	Skyscraper	73%
1893, New Zealand inspires suffragettes everywhere when it gives womenn this.	The Right to Vote	73%
1903, With this flight, these brothers start a revolution in travel, lost luggage, and bad food,	The Wright Brothers	73%
1949, The "Reds" take over China after long march by this leader	Mao Zedong	72%
1900, With the Interpretation of Dreams, this author secularizes the soul, sexualizes childhood, and in general sets back psychology back for almost a century.	Sigmud Freud	72%
1789, The French Revolution begins with the storming of this prison and the freeing of its seven prisoners.	The Bastille	72%
1609, This Italian gentleman looked through a telescope for the first time. He was later said to have spent "A Night at the Opera" with Freddie Mercury	Galileo	71%
1438, An empire is created in Andean highlands. Their rope bridges are still operational	Incan Empire	70%
1509, Michelangelo was lying down on the job here. Tourist aren't allowed to do the same. If they do they risk the back hand of a priest or nun while viewing the hand of God.	Sistine Chapel	70%
1796, 300 years too late for the Americas, Edward Jenner discovers a vaccine for this disease.	Smallpox	70%
1918, This epidemic kills more people than World War One.	The Spanish Flu	70%
1519, The Spanish arrive to pilage this empire at its height.	Aztec Empire	69%
1907, He introduces cubism and women never look the same. Personally I prefer the blue period.	Pablo Picasso	68%
1520, Suleiman the Magnificient rules an empire at its height. It would take almost 400 years for it to become the sick man of Europe. Appropriately it became a place for the other empires to rest their feet.	Ottoman Empire	67%
1928, Alexander Fleming leaves out mold and discovers a wonder drug. Overuse has limited its effectiveness	Penicillin	67%
1455, His invention led to Bibles now worth about $25 million.	Johannes Gutenberg	66%
1819, This Liberator triumphs at the Battle of Boyaca setting the stage for the eventual indpendence of South America.	Simon Bolivar	66%
1905, This Swiss patent clerk upsets Newtonian physics and everything becomes relative.	Albert Einstein	65%
1914, This Austrian takes a wrong turn and gives an assasin a second change to succeed and Europe goes to war soon after	Franz Ferdinand	65%
1991, An other ideology sputters to an end in South Africa.	Apartheid	64%
1833, The British Empire abolishes this practise and enforce it on the high seas.	Slavery	64%
1895,The Lumiere brothers introduce this and Hollywood is never the same.	The Motion Picture	64%
1453, The fall of this city and its subsequent name change prompted a song by "They Might Be Giants".	Constantinople	63%
1776, Some rich men some of whom owned slaves got together to whine over taxes and wrote this.	Declaration of Independence	63%
1917, First there was the Mensheviks and then Lenin and this group took power in the Russian Revoluition. Palmer and then Hoover saw them everywhere.	Bolsheviks	62%
1947, A man dressed in a simple cloth goes on a walk to the sea for some salt and the British Empire grants this country independence.	India	61%
1643, A Mughal emperor builds this tomb for his third wife.	Taj Mahal	61%
1721, The Brandenburg Concertos are completed by this man.	Johanan Sebastian Bach	59%
1957, America actually increases its education budget as this satalite launch creates starts a space race.	Sputnik	59%
1787, Revered in manner similar to the Ten Commandments in the USA, this document is seldom read but frequently cited by American politicians.	U.S. Constitution	59%
1522, This Spanish captain finally proved the world was round by going around it except he didn't make it only his ship did.	Ferdinand Magellan	57%
1605, Windmills will never be the same as Cervantes creates this, the first modern novel.	Don Quixote	56%
1911, Ernst Rutherford discovers its stucture without actually seeing it. A solar system in minature apparently.	The Atom	56%
1543, Much to the chargin of the Catholic Church, Copernicus postulates this type of universe	Heliocentric	54%
1895, If the Lumiere brothers didn't bring enough entertainment to the masses, Marconi gave us something more.	Radio Signals	54%
1991, An intrepid traveller wakes up hungover and notices a change of flags at the Kremlin and Red Square. Apparently this country broke up while he was travelling through it.	The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	54%
1684, Despite Newton's counterclaims, Leibniz is generally credited with inventing this form of mathematics.	Calculus	52%
1582, A creation of Pope Gregory XIII leads to people skipping 10 days of their lives.	Gregorian Calendar	52%
1637, He publishes a Discourse on Method and establishes the idea that thinking is proof of existence.	Rene Descartes	49%
1867, Japan ends the rule of these warlords. An inspiration for a novel and mini-series.	Shogun	48%
1513, He wrote a how to book for a tyrant. Unfortunately, his chosen tyrants, the Borgia and Medici families, didn't hire him.	Machiavelli	47%
1969, Al Gore was nowhere to be found as this technological marvel begins and strange cat tricks become a world-wide phenomenon.	Internet	46%
1927, To increae our entertainment options and distract the masses, Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a working model of this and the human brain is never the same.	Television	45%
1852, Admiral Perry forces this country to open its ports to trade. Previously they would only trade with the Dutch as the Dutch were willing to desecrate a cross.	Japan	44%
1775, The Industrail Revoluon is off to the races when this invention reaches its more practical form.	Steam Engine	44%
1897, Theodor Herzl lauches this movement and a little over 50 years later the state of Isreal is born.	Zionism	44%
1776, Destined to be misquoted by capitalist everywhere, the Wealth of Nations is published by this author. They should consult his earlier work, Theory of Moral Sentiments.	Adam Smith	43%
1922, To give us one more reason to drink, James Joyce writes a novel recouting one day in Dublin.	Ulysses	42%
1387, A classic of English literature whose bawdy tales will titilate undergrads and high school students for a millennium. Name author and title.	Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales	38%
1667, John Milton writes of the fall of man with all its Calvinistic damnation in this book.	Paradise Lost	38%
1929, Unlike Hubble economists quickly discover when it stops and things goes black. And just like 2008, the working class pay the price.	Stock Market Crash	38%
1862, Louis Pasteur posits this theory. It takes a while for hospital to understand the implications and require surgeons to be clean.	Germ Theory	37%
1954, This court case leads to US racial desegregation.	Brown v Board of Education	36%
1953, These two men discover the structure of DNA. They "forget" to credit Rosalind Franklin.	James Watson and Francis Crick	35%
1927, To give the American religious right one more headache, a Belgian priest Joseph Lemaitre proposes an origins theory. True to Hollywood form, its now a TV show	The Big Bang Theory	33%
1936, In the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money a solution to the depression is proposed; prime the pump and don't worry about the long term. After all in the long term, we are all dead said the economist whose ideas have justly made a comeback.	John Maynard Keynes	32%
1842, Using this gas, anesthetic is given for the first time. Amputation would never be the same.	Ether	30%
1989, This falls down and this ideology is discredited. Too bad about the former, it was a great place for graffiti.	Berlin Wall and Communism	29%
1273, He wrote Summa Theologica, a everything you wanted to know about Catholic theology but were afraid to ask guide.	Thomas Aquinas	27%
1690, The English response to equating thought to existence is published in the Essay Concerningn Human Understanding postulating sense perception precedes thought, thus creating the English - Continental rift in philosophy. The same author helped create a rift between the 13 colonies and England by publising On Liberty.	John Locke	25%
1755, The English language becomes standardized with the publication of this man's Dictionary of the English Language. Just in time for it to take over the world.	Samuel Johnson	24%
1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Women is published by this women. She would later give birth to the writer of Frankenstein.	Mary Wollstonecraft	22%
1929, Ernst Hubble makes a proposal even Albert Einstein initially won't accept. Its now part of the standard model but raises the question when does it stop.	Expanding Universe	21%
1688, The English invited a Dutchman to take over the throne from the legitimate English James II in this exuberantly titled act.	Glorious Revolution	21%
1398, The start of his last military campaign, this general managed to build an empire from modern Turkey to Delhi, from the Indian Ocean to north of the Aral Sea. His series of wars managed to kill 5% off the world's population at the time. Not bad for a man who couldn't walk.	Tamerlane	18%
1125, the start of construction of the ________________ in Cambodia. A place of pilgrimage for Hindus and then Buddhists and now a side trip for tourists tired of Bangkok.	Angor Wat	13%

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