11 tries.
Nice game, especially the inclusion of the facts. I agree with other commenters though - the facts need to be either right next to the retry button, or in something you have to read to get to the next attempt.
This is no good at all! The controls are pants and even when I left my computer for about 10 minutes, I still had not lost a life - the "ghosts" weren't coming anywhere near!
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