Statistics for Europe General Knowledge #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A fictional detective who lives on Baker Street in London	Sherlock Holmes	96%
What river flows through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade?	Danube	95%
The second oldest university in the world	University of Oxford	92%
Roman combatants who fought animals or each other for people's entertainment	Gladiators	88%
In what city were held the Summer Olympic Games in 1896?	Athens	85%
George Orwell's dystopian novel	Nineteen Eighty-Four	83%
Spanish general and the dictator of Spain (from 1939 to 1975)	Francisco Franco	80%
Napoléon Bonaparte's birthplace	Ajaccio, Corsica	78%
The first artificial Earth satellite launched on 4 October 1957	Sputnik 1	78%
An isolated language spoken in a region in Spain and France	Basque	77%
A sea between Greece and Turkey	Aegean Sea	73%
A citizen of Moscow	Muscovite	72%
Whose motto was "one for all, all for one"?	The Three Musketeers	70%
What peninsula does Denmark lie on?	Jutland	63%
P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballet that features the characters of Odette, Odile, and Rothbart?	Swan Lake	57%
Where can you find barbary macaques, the only wild monkeys in Europe?	Gibraltar	55%
Who abducted Europa in the guise of a bull?	Zeus	36%
Édith Gassion's nickname which meant "sparrow" and referred to her small height	Édith Piaf	34%
A monarch whose nickname was "Sisi"	Empress Elisabeth of Austria	30%
The oldest university in the world	University of Bologna	26%