letter | clue | answer | % Correct |
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F | Opponents in the Hundred Years War 1337-1453 | France | 93%
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E | Opponents in the Hundred Years War 1337-1453 | England | 88%
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I | Iconic photo of US Marines raising the flag after this 1945 battle | Iwo Jima | 84%
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H | USSR crushed a 1956 uprising in this country | Hungary | 83%
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K | Group currently fighting for autonomy from Turkey | Kurds | 81%
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L | City that endured a 3-year Nazi siege | Leningrad | 80%
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V | Treaty that concluded World War I | Versailles | 79%
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W | Conqueror who led the 11th century invasion of England | William I | 79%
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O | Battle of Normandy codename: Operation _____ | Overlord | 76%
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R | Scene of a 1994 genocide | Rwanda | 76%
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G | War codenamed Operation Desert Shield | Gulf War | 74%
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Y | WWII meeting venue between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin | Yalta | 74%
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D | Britain won the 1807-14 Gunboat War against this country | Denmark | 70%
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P | Country that was invaded in 1989, deposing General Noriega | Panama | 69%
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X | Persian invader of Greece in 486 BC | Xerxes I | 66%
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N | Biafra was briefly a nation in this country's civil war | Nigeria | 63%
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S | War of 5-10 June 1967, won by Israel | Six-Day War | 63%
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B | Dictator overthrown in the 1959 Cuban Revolution | Batista | 55%
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Z | Country that ceased to exist after Sultan Jamshid's overthrow in 1964 | Zanzibar | 47%
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Q | The British conquered this city in 1759 after a 3-month siege | Québec City | 44%
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M | Colonists Britain took 8 years to put down this Kenyan uprising | Mau Mau | 39%
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A | Chilean president killed on Sept 11, 1973 in a CIA-backed coup | Allende | 36%
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C | Dictator killed in 1989 revolution in Romania | Ceaușescu | 27%
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J | ____ and Kashmir, still fought over by Pakistan and India | Jammu | 22%
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U | 1860s civil war between the Colorados and the Blancos | Uruguayan | 20%
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T | Slovenia's brief 1991 war of independence | Ten-Day War | 8%
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