Statistics for History by Letter #2 - D

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Biblical King who slew Goliath	David	97%
English Princess who died in a car crash in Paris	Princess Diana	94%
City where John F. Kennedy was assassinated	Dallas	90%
Italian Poet who wrote the Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	82%
Country that was ruled by kings Canute the Great and Harald Bluetooth	Denmark	82%
Series of rulers from the same family	Dynasty	80%
German City that was firebombed by the Allies in WWII	Dresden	75%
Site of the most famous Greek Oracle	Delphi	74%
French City from where 300,000 allied troops were evacuated in WWII	Dunkirk	70%
The oldest continuously inhabited capital city in the world	Damascus	69%
Greek God of Wine	Dionysus	60%
Book by Karl Marx about his ideology	Das Kapital	47%
Book that records the Great Survey of 1086 of the English Population	Domesday Book	45%
Greek equivalent of Ceres, mother of Persephone	Demeter	41%
Roman Emperor who established the Tetrarchy	Diocletian	25%
West-African Kingdom located in what is now Benin	Dahomey	17%
Portuguese Explorer, the first known European to round the Cape of Good Hope	Bartolomeu Dias	10%
Egyptian Pharaoh, buried in a famous step-pyramid at Saqqara	Djoser	8%
Swissman on whose ideas were based the Red Cross and Geneva Conventions	Henry Dunant	6%
Mon Kingdom in what is now Thailand from the 6th to the 13th centuries A.D.	Dvaravati	2%