Statistics for Famous Italians

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Clue	Italian	% Correct
"Mona Lisa" painter	Leonardo da Vinci	98%
Sailed to the New World in 1492	Christopher Columbus	95%
Painted the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	93%
Fascist dictator	Benito Mussolini	87%
Died on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	86%
Venetian who traveled to China	Marco Polo	82%
Discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	76%
The first Roman emperor	Augustus	73%
Author of "The Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	71%
"Four Seasons" composer	Antonio Vivaldi	68%
Mapmaker who two continents are named for	Amerigo Vespucci	64%
Scandal-prone billionaire and three time Prime Minister	Silvio Berlusconi	60%
One of the Three Tenors	Luciano Pavarotti	59%
Inventor of radio	Guglielmo Marconi	56%
Italian designer who is famous for men's suits	Giorgio Armani	53%
"Magnificient" ruler of Florence	Lorenzo de' Medici	53%
Writer who said the ends justify the means	Niccolo Machiavelli	53%
Painter of cherubs and "The School of Athens"	Raphael	49%
Actress and sex symbol who starred in "Marriage Italian-Style"	Sophia Loren	44%
"Life is Beautiful" director	Roberto Benigni	35%
First king of modern Italy	Victor Emmanuel II	35%
Helped to develop the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	31%