Statistics for History by Letter - C

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
He was looking for India but found America instead	Christopher Columbus	98%
"War" between the USA and the USSR	{Cold} War	96%
The last pharaoh, and a rare female one	Cleopatra	95%
Rome's largest amphitheatre	Colosseum	92%
"ism" promoted by Karl Marx	{Commun}ism	92%
British PM, 1940–1945	Winston Churchill	91%
He met his end on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	90%
Site of a 1986 nuclear disaster	Chernobyl	89%
Drug used by Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes	Cocaine	86%
Medieval Christian attempts to capture the Holy Land	The {Crusades}	84%
Capital of the Byzantine Empire	Constantinople	83%
Country devastated by Pol Pot	Cambodia	82%
"Great Sage" of Chinese philosophy	Confucius	73%
Polish-French discoverer of Polonium	Marie Curie	73%
Ancient rival of Rome located in modern-day Tunisia	Carthage	70%
African city established as a Dutch supply station	Cape Town	69%
Great king of the Franks from 768–814	Charlemagne	69%
British explorer who died in Hawaii	James Cook	66%
Astronomer who posited that the Earth revolves around the sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	66%
Group whose priests were called druids	Celts	62%
Eli Whitney's invention	Cotton Gin	47%
French theologian for whom a branch of Christianity is named	John Calvin	45%