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Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
2 - 3% (90)
5 - 27% (914)
9 - 30% (1027)
14 - 19% (633)
No answer picked: 21% (716)
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25% - 6% (194)
50% - 18% (617)
75% - 26% (887)
100% - 26% (870)
No answer picked: 24% (799)
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Matamoros - 5% (162)
Tampico - 9% (308)
Veracruz - 46% (1573)
Cancun - 16% (556)
No answer picked: 23% (794)
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Libya - 9% (153)
Nubia - 35% (635)
Persia - 14% (254)
None, it was native Egyptian - 12% (222)
Seleucus - 8% (476)
Alexander the Great - 31% (1760)
Antipater - 5% (267)
Ptolemy - 31% (1791)
No answer picked: 25% (1400)
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Question 265: Ronald Reagan made his first political
appearence in 1964, giving a speech for which
conservative Republican presidential candidate?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: First World War and
onward
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: United States
Nelson Rockefeller - 9% (117)
Richard Nixon - 31% (405)
Barry Goldwater - 27% (356)
George Wallace - 6% (80)
No answer picked: 26% (345)
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Question 267: What Chinese dynasty did the Manchu
minority establishes?
Author: Joe Gosnell - Category: Middle-Ages
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
The Song dynasty - 6% (97)
The Qing dynasty - 28% (486)
The Ming dynasty - 28% (499)
The Yuan dynasty - 9% (167)
No answer picked: 29% (511)
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Question 271: Who was Premier of the Soviet Union in
the Cuban Missle Crisis?
Author: Joe Gosnell - Category: First World War and
onward
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Others
Krushchev - 53% (3081)
Stalin - 12% (684)
Brezhnev - 8% (489)
Kosygin - 2% (120)
No answer picked: 25% (1464)
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Question 285: Which famous poet and scientist was
employed by the Seljuqs to reform the Islamic
calendar?
Author: Mongoloid Cow - Category: Middle-Ages
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Arab World and Israel
Al-Khwarazimi - 15% (193)
Al-Tusi - 8% (108)
5 millions - 7% (96)
9 millions - 25% (323)
15 millions - 26% (339)
21 millions - 15% (199)
No answer picked: 27% (346)
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Maxentius - 3% (190)
Constantine - 56% (3185)
Augustus - 13% (733)
Julian - 4% (238)
No answer picked: 24% (1389)
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Theocentrism - 3% (211)
No answer picked: 21% (1558)
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Question 359: What was the original name of New
York?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Renaissance to
French Revolution
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: United States
Fort Victoria - 11% (803)
New Amsterdam - 55% (4175)
New London - 11% (850)
New Rotterdam - 5% (408)
No answer picked: 18% (1392)
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Question 360: Who proclaimed himself emperor of the
USA and Protector of Mexico, even printing his own
money?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: United States
Joshua Abraham Norton - 26% (350)
Johnatan Louis Wilsson - 12% (164)
John Riley Marsden - 14% (183)
William Joshua Pitt - 18% (239)
No answer picked: 30% (403)
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Question 361: Why was Greenland called Greenland?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Middle-Ages
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Others
The seawater around the island is particularly green 10% (562)
Grenn is the Old Norish word for rock - 21% (1189)
To convince potential settlers of its fertility - 38%
(2151)
Because it was used for initation rites for Icelandic
Vikings - 7% (410)
No answer picked: 25% (1402)
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Question 362: How did the Byzantines call
themselves?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Middle-Ages
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
French?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Renaissance to
French Revolution
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Swiss Republic - 10% (178)
Helvetian Republic - 45% (786)
Baseler republic - 12% (211)
Chur Republic - 3% (52)
No answer picked: 30% (527)
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Question 370: Who famously delcared 'Veni, vidi, vici' ?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Prehistory and
Antiquity
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Julius Caesar - 57% (4290)
Augustus - 12% (934)
Cicero - 9% (696)
Cato the elder - 2% (148)
No answer picked: 20% (1476)
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Question 376: Which future American President helped
deliver food help to occupied Belgium during the First
World War?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: First World War and
onward
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Theodore Roosevelt - 13% (171)
Woodrow Wilson - 15% (190)
Harry S. Truman - 24% (308)
Herbert Clark Hoover - 23% (307)
No answer picked: 25% (333)
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Question 377: Of which country was Finland part
before 1809?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Russia - 26% (862)
Denmark - 11% (352)
Sweden - 32% (1061)
Norway - 10% (336)
No answer picked: 21% (715)
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Question 378: Which Roman Emperor allegedly made
his horse senator?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Prehistory and
Antiquity
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Trajan - 11% (142)
Heliogabal - 6% (80)
Caligula - 51% (646)
Diocletian - 5% (62)
No answer picked: 27% (338)
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Question 380: What happened to a Dutch fleet during
the Napoleonic wars?
Author: Stephane David - Category: Renaissance to
French Revolution
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
It ran aground after the Dutch destroyed some dykes. 5% (79)
It destroyed itself when several ships fired at each
others during the night by mistake. - 14% (242)
It was captured by a French cavalry charge. - 17%
(288)
It was sabotaged in Antwerp harbour by English spies
to prevent it from reinforcing the French navy after
Napoleon gave the Dutch crown to one of his brother 34% (582)
No answer picked: 31% (543)
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Revolution
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Hejaz - 7% (82)
Crete - 22% (260)
Palestine - 11% (127)
Thrace - 30% (350)
No answer picked: 30% (356)
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Abdulhamid II - 8% (257)
Suleyman - 30% (926)
Mehmet II - 33% (1026)
Selim III - 7% (222)
No answer picked: 21% (664)
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Bihar - 6% (74)
Punjab - 30% (355)
Bengal - 29% (345)
Hyderabad - 7% (79)
No answer picked: 29% (345)
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Question 511: Which Mughal Emperor is associated
with the ending of accomodation of Hindus into the
political system and the attempt to make the Mughal
Empire a purely Islamic state in the late 17th century?
Author: OHgamer - Category: Renaissance to French
Revolution
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Babur - 14% (161)
Aurangzab - 23% (273)
Akbar - 24% (279)
Shah Jahan - 11% (128)
No answer picked: 29% (344)
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Question 513: Over which province have India and
Pakistan disputed ownership, leading to brief wars in
1948 and 1966?
Author: OHgamer - Category: First World War and onward
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Hyderabad - 4% (284)
Assam - 6% (402)
Kashmir - 68% (4958)
Kerala - 2% (136)
No answer picked: 20% (1460)
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Question 514: Which region was France forced to cede
to Germany in wake of its defeat in 1871?
Author: OHgamer - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Normandy - 16% (1198)
Alsace-Lorraine - 48% (3492)
Provence - 9% (625)
Aquitaine - 6% (442)
No answer picked: 22% (1589)
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Question 515: Which of the following was the
immediate cause of the Indian Mutiny in 1857?
Author: OHgamer - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Spanish - 5% (80)
Portuguese - 17% (286)
No answer picked: 30% (496)
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Question 570: Before the Meiji Restoration, who was
the effective ruler of Japan?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Renaissance to
French Revolution
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
The Tokai - 7% (412)
The Samurai - 13% (724)
The Shogun - 50% (2794)
The Genroku - 4% (238)
No answer picked: 26% (1473)
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Djedhor - 4% (52)
Hakor - 8% (95)
Nakhtnebef II - 30% (354)
Ahmose II - 26% (304)
No answer picked: 31% (357)
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Tertulian - 6% (76)
Gregory The Great - 12% (141)
Augustine - 45% (542)
Ambrose - 7% (78)
No answer picked: 30% (362)
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Siam - 8% (234)
No answer picked: 24% (720)
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Question 621: In which city did the Russian Revolution
start?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: First World War and
onward
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
St.Petersburg - 54% (2962)
Moscow - 15% (812)
Kazan - 3% (183)
Odessa - 4% (224)
No answer picked: 24% (1335)
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Question 623: Which of those books was written by
Caesar?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: Prehistory and
Antiquity
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Metamorphoses - 11% (607)
De Bello Gallico - 28% (1533)
Res Gestae Divi Augusti - 25% (1386)
Pro Marcello - 8% (441)
No answer picked: 28% (1518)
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Question 624: What was the original European name of
Australia?
Author: Archeolooginspe - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Others
New Wales - 44% (1305)
New Holland - 22% (641)
New Scotland - 8% (233)
New Normandy - 5% (136)
No answer picked: 22% (649)
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Question 625: What was the name of the (possibly
mythical) first ruling dynasty of China?
Author: David DeVore - Category: Prehistory and Antiquity
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Shang - 14% (232)
Han - 17% (292)
Chin - 13% (226)
Xia - 24% (398)
No answer picked: 32% (530)
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French Revolution
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Genoa - 12% (615)
Trieste - 6% (302)
Venice - 58% (2882)
Bari - 2% (119)
No answer picked: 22% (1086)
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Question 1021: Which English Queen was executed
May 19, 1536?
Author: Dawn W Vaughan - Category: Renaissance to
French Revolution
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Jane Seymour - 6% (132)
Ann Boleyn - 51% (1063)
Katherine Howard - 10% (212)
Ann of Cleves - 9% (179)
No answer picked: 24% (512)
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Question 1035: Which fortress in the Caribbean was
known as the "Gibraltar of the West Indies"?
Author: toya - Category: Renaissance to French Revolution
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Latin America
Brimstone Hill - 20% (162)
Romney Manor - 9% (72)
Fort Willem - 20% (160)
Port de Plaisance - 20% (166)
No answer picked: 32% (258)
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Question 1037: What was the name of the first
Inquisitor General of Spain, infamous for his
persecution of Jews and Muslims?
Author: Kemoy Lindsay - Category: Renaissance to French
Revolution
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Toms de Torquemada - 39% (297)
Juan Sebastian el Cano - 14% (110)
Alfredo Barrazo - 8% (64)
Hernando del Pulgar - 8% (59)
No answer picked: 31% (233)
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Question 1079: Which American Civil War battle had
the highest number of casualties?
Author: WENDY - Category: 19th Century
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: United States
noorjahan - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1456:
Author: nahom mulugheta tsegay - Category: First World
War and onward
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1463: In what year did the Roman Legion first
defeat the Greek Phalanx
Author: Lenny Vineham - Category: Prehistory and
Antiquity
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Not confirmed yet
133 BC - 0% (0)
197 BC - 0% (0)
168 BC - 0% (0)
148 BC - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1478: What is the name of the first university
in the world?
Author: Rumi Jivani - Category: Global History
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
Oxford - 0% (0)
Alhambra - 0% (0)
Al Azhar - 0% (0)
McGill - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1479: What is the name of the first university
in the world?
Author: Rumi Jivani - Category: Global History
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
Oxford - 0% (0)
Alhambra - 0% (0)
Al Azhar - 0% (0)
McGill - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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1420 - 0% (0)
1386 - 0% (0)
1475 - 0% (0)
1410 - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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1847 - 0% (0)
1947 - 0% (0)
1452 - 0% (0)
1896 - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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