Statistics for History by Letter - H

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City struck by an atomic bomb	Hiroshima	98%
Oldest university in the U.S.	Harvard	94%
Anne Boleyn's husband	{Henry} {VIII}	91%
Chinese island taken by the British in 1842	Hong Kong	86%
General who crossed the Alps with elephants	Hannibal	85%
Iraqi leader hanged in 2006	Saddam Hussein	84%
Apocryphal world wonder of Babylon	{Hanging} {Gardens}	82%
Roman emperor who built a wall in England	Hadrian	79%
What Saigon was renamed to in 1976	Ho Chi Minh City	77%
Nomadic group that threatened Rome in the 400s AD	Huns	77%
Emperor of Japan in WWII	Hirohito	76%
German airship which caught fire in 1937	Hindenburg	74%
Dynasty that ruled Austria	Habsburg	71%
Where William beat Harold in 1066	Hastings	70%
Last name of U.S. Presidents William and Benjamin	Harrison	65%
Group that slaughtered Tutsis in Rwanda	Hutus	63%
Babylonian king whose code decreed "an eye for an eye"	Hammurabi	50%
Greek "Father of History"	Herodotus	49%
Term for a French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries	Huguenot	47%
German mercenaries hired by Britain in the American Revolution	Hessians	36%