Statistics for History by Letter #2 - C

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Surname of Cuban Leaders Raul and Fidel	Castro	96%
Russian Empress whose rule marked a Golden Age for Russia	Catherine the Great	88%
Greek Island, birthplace of the Minoan Civilization	Crete	83%
Wonder of the Ancient World, located in Rhodes	Colossus of Rhodes	71%
Former name of Sri Lanka	Ceylon	64%
US Army Officer who had his 'Last Stand' at the Battle of Little Bighorn	George Armstrong Custer	64%
War in which Florence Nightingale was a nurse	Crimean War	63%
Father of English Poetry, author of The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	61%
First Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity	Constantine the Great	60%
Spanish Conquistador that caused the fall of the Aztecs	Hernan Cortes	56%
Nickname for Roman Emperor Gaius, meaning Little Boots	Caligula	55%
Iberian Kingdom that merged with the Kingdom of Leon	Castille	46%
Country where rulers claimed power by the Mandate of Heaven	China	45%
Only US President to have served two non-consecutive terms	Grover Cleveland	43%
Roman Orator, murdered by the Second Triumvirate	Cicero	40%
Founder of the Achaemenid or Great Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	33%
Native American war leader that defeated the previous answer	Crazy Horse	30%
Andalusian City in Spain, once the capital of an Islamic Caliphate	Cordoba	28%
Mayan City on the Yucatan where the Mayans built a famous pyramid	Chichen Itza	27%
Last Communist Leader of Romania	Nicolae Ceausescu	26%
Hellenized name of Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid	Cheops	19%
Frankish Empire founded by Charlemagne	Carolingian Empire	15%