Statistics for History by Letter - U

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country formed when Great Britain merged with Ireland in 1801	United Kingdom	98%
Country that declared itself independent in 1776	United States	97%
Perfect society envisioned by Thomas More	Utopia	93%
Term for a German military submarine	U-Boat	88%
Country ruled by Idi Amin	Uganda	87%
Destination of Mormon pioneers	Utah	85%
Army that wore blue in the U.S. Civil War	{Union} Army	80%
Nickname of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski	Unabomber	79%
Celestial object discovered by William Herschel in 1781	Uranus	78%
Novel by James Joyce once considered obscene	Ulysses	72%
The world's first of these opened in Bologna in 1088	University	67%
Friendly nickname of Joseph Stalin	{Uncle} {Joe}	66%
Once the largest city of the Netherlands	Utrecht	65%
Name of 8 popes	Urban	62%
One of the letters of the Greek alphabet	Upsilon	53%
Largest of the Muslim empires	{Umayyad} Caliphate	52%
Phoenician colony in Tunisia which a city in New York is named for	Utica	47%
Name of two Italian kings	Umberto	44%
German city whose cathedral was briefly the tallest building in the world	Ulm	35%
Pagan center of Sweden where human sacrifices were hung from trees	Uppsala	32%