Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Andean civilisation responsible for the royal estate of Machu Picchu | Incan | 88%
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Modern-day country of spice islands once known as the Dutch East Indies | Indonesia | 86%
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Battle that was the undoing of Napoleon | Waterloo | 82%
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North African city state fought by Rome in the Punic Wars | Carthage | 79%
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Supreme Allied Commander during WWII, and later a U.S. President | (Dwight D.) Eisenhower | 79%
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Current name of the city that was once the capital of the Ottoman Empire | Istanbul | 79%
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Historic German city, site of postwar trials of prominent Nazis | Nuremberg | 72%
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Prince Consort of Queen Victoria | Albert | 70%
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Popular name for the Normandy landings of WWII | D-Day | 68%
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Town famed as the birthplace of England's greatest playwright | Stratford-on-Avon | 58%
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Florentine diplomat famed for deviousness and authorship of 'The Prince' | (Niccolo) Machiavelli | 53%
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Town in Provence, France that was a seat of the papacy in the Middle Ages | Avignon | 46%
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Era that succeeded the Victorian in the UK | Edwardian | 44%
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English king who lost his head to the Cromwellians at the end of the Civil War | Charles I | 42%
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I came, I saw, I conquered | 35%
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Ancient civilisation of modern Italy renowned for frescos and sculptures of its many gods | Etruscan | 32%
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Scottish king who helped secure the nation's independence with victory at Bannockburn | Robert (I) the Bruce | 30%
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"Feathered serpent" deity of the Aztec civilisation | Quetzalcoatl | 26%
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Ancient Mesoamerican civilisation known for large stone sculptures, especially of heads | Olmec | 25%
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Julius Caesar | 19%
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Widely acknowledged name for the joining of the Scottish and English monarchies with James VI & I in 1603 | Union of Crowns | 2%
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