Statistics for History by Letter - J

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country that attacked Pearl Harbor	Japan	100%
Unidentified serial killer in Victorian London	Jack the Ripper	93%
Style of music which originated in New Orleans around 1900	Jazz	93%
Peasant girl who became a French military leader	Joan of Arc	92%
City conquered by Crusaders in 1099	Jerusalem	88%
Stone used to make the burial suits of Chinese emperors	Jade	87%
Term for a King's fool	Jester	86%
Author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	84%
Last name of two different U.S. Presidents, both of whose predecessors were assassinated	Johnson	83%
City on the island of Java formerly known as Batavia	Jakarta	78%
King who commissioned a Bible in 1604	King James I	78%
Notable technology pioneer who died of pancreatic cancer in 2011	Steve Jobs	77%
Polish pope elected in 1978	John Paul II	73%
Sport in which Henry VIII was seriously injured	Jousting	71%
Calendar used in Europe between 45 BC–1582 AD	{Julian} Calendar	68%
Napoleon's wife	Josephine	61%
The largest naval battle of WWI, it happened off the coast of Denmark	Battle of {Jutland}	59%
Roman client state led by King Herod	Judea	49%
Byzantine emperor who reconquered Italy	Justinian	46%
Elite soldiers who guarded the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	Janissaries	29%