Statistics for History by Letter #2 - B

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country that colonized Congo in 1908	Belgium	89%
Birthplace of Jesus, according to the Bible	Bethlehem	87%
Roman who helped assasinate Caesar. Caesar's supposedly asked him: Et tu?	Brutus	87%
Country in South America named after the man who liberated it	Bolivia	86%
Founder of terrorist organization al-Qaeda, killed in 2011	Osama Bin Laden	84%
Russian Explorer who gave name to the strait between Alaska and Russia	Vitus Bering	82%
Wife of Adolf Hitler	Eva Braun	75%
Failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA-sponsored Brigade 2506 in 1961	Bay of Pigs Invasion	72%
Land claimed by Portugal on 22 April 1500	Brazil	72%
Empire of Colonies on which 'the sun never set'	British Empire	71%
Unified the German States and became the 1st Chancellor of Germany	Otto von Bismarck	55%
Roman version of the Greek God Dionysus	Bacchus	54%
German Engineer who built the first patented automobile	Karl Benz	51%
Italian Renaissance painter, painted the Birth of Venus	Sandro Botticelli	49%
English Poet, part of the Romantic movement, his best known work is 'Don Juan'	Lord Byron	42%
City in India where a gas leak took place in 1984, killing thousands	Bhopal	25%
Saint of Nursia, founder of an Order of Monks and Western Monasticism, Patron of Europe	Saint Benedict	23%
Group of 300-600 ethnic peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa, still prominent today	Bantu	22%
Duchy that founded a state in southern France after the Fall of the Roman Empire	Burgundy	20%
Italian artist and architect who designed famous Roman Fountains	Gian Lorenzo Bernini	12%
South African Anti-Apartheid activist known for his slogan: Black is Beautiful	Steve Biko	12%