Statistics for 100 most important people ever (according to Time magazine)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
German Führer	Adolf HItler	99%
Founder of Christianity	Jesus Christ	99%
1st US president	George Washington	98%
Founder of Islam	Muhammad	97%
US Civil War President	Abraham Lincoln	96%
Soviet WWII leader	Joseph Stalin	95%
English playwright	William Shakespeare	95%
"Discoverer" of the New World	Christopher Columbus	94%
Roman dictator	Julius Caesar	93%
French dictator	Napoleon Bonaparte	93%
Virgin queen of England	Elizabeth I of England	92%
"Discovered" gravity	Isaac Newton	92%
Mona Lisa painter	Leonardo da Vinci	92%
Evolutionary theorist	Charles Darwin	91%
WWII US president	Franklin D. Roosevelt	90%
German composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	90%
WWII UK prime minister	Winston Churchill	90%
Greek conquerer	Alexander the Great	88%
26th US President	Theodore Roosevelt	88%
Invented the lightbulb	Thomas Edison	88%
First Soviet leader	Vladimir Lenin	88%
Austrian composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	88%
Cuban Missle Crisis president	John F. Kennedy	87%
Victorian queen	Queen Victoria	87%
"King of Rock and Roll"	Elvis Presley	85%
Mongol Emperor	Genghis Khan	85%
43rd US president	George W. Bush	85%
Socialist philosopher	Karl Marx	85%
Wrote the 95 theses	Martin Luther	85%
Greek philosopher	Plato	85%
Watergate president	Richard Nixon	85%
3rd US president	Thomas Jefferson	84%
German theoretical physicist	Albert Einstein	83%
Founder of Buddhism	Gautama Buddha	83%
Painted the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	82%
2nd US president	John Adams	80%
Painted "Starry NIght"	Vincent van Gogh	80%
Greek philosopher	Aristotle	79%
English king with 6 wives	Henry VIII of England	79%
Leader of Indian Independence movement	Mohatma Gandhi	79%
The "father of psychoanalysis"	Sigmund Freud	79%
40th US president	Ronald Reagan	78%
Pope from 1978 to 2005	Pope John Paul II	77%
Only world leader to use an atomic bomb	Harry S. Truman	74%
Founder of western philosophy	Socrates	74%
First Holy Roman Emperor	Charlemagne	73%
German composer	Johann Sebastian Bach	73%
First Roman Emperor	Augustus	72%
First to observe Saturn's rings	Galileo Galilei	72%
King who supposedly pulled out excalibur	King Arthur	72%
WWI US president	Woodrow Wilson	71%
Wrote "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	68%
Female leader during the 100 years war	Joan of Arc	68%
Civil War General and 18th US President	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
Founded Calvinism	John Calvin	66%
Wrote "Tom Sawyer"	Mark Twain	66%
Wrote "The wealth of nations"	Adam Smith	65%
Biblical King of Israel	David	65%
Has a version of the bible named after him	James I of England	64%
Founder of Mormonism	Joseph Smith Jr	64%
"Sun King" of France	Louis XIV of France	64%
Invented AC current	Nikola Tesla	64%
Lord Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	64%
Confederate general	Robert E. Lee	64%
Medieval Italian poet, author of "Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	62%
"Discovered" electricity	Benjamin Franklin	61%
Wrote "The Raven"	Edgar Allan Poe	61%
The leader of the 12 apostles	Saint Peter	61%
7th US president	Andrew Jackson	60%
4th US president	James Madison	60%
Found that the planets orbit the sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	60%
Discovered Hawaii	James Cook	59%
King during the French Revolution	Louis XVI of France	59%
English king in 1066	William the Conquerer	59%
Most important Apostle	Saint Paul	58%
Made Christianity legal in Rome	Constantine the Great	53%
King during the American Revolution	George III of the United Kingdom	53%
Unified the German Empire	Otto von Bismarck	52%
Composed "The Nutcracker"	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	52%
22nd and 24th US president	Grover Cleveland	49%
"The ride of the Valkyries" composer	Richard Wagner	48%
King during English Civil War	Charles I of England	42%
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" Author	Oscar Wilde	41%
Enlightenment philosopher	Voltaire	38%
The central figure in modern philosophy	Immanuel Kant	36%
Founder of central US banking	Alexander Hamilton	35%
Major Rationalist philosopher	René Descartes	34%
Romes greatest orator	Cicero	33%
Early philosopher who challenged Christianity	Friedrich Nietzsche	32%
Philosopher who inspired the French Revolution	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	32%
"Father of Liberalism"	John Locke	32%
Started the restoration of England	Charles II of England	26%
Wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther"	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	24%
Medieval Catholic philosopher	Thomas Aquinas	24%
Founded the scientific method	Francis Bacon	22%
Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Spain	Charles V, Holy Roman Emporer	21%
Emperor of the Spainish Empire at its largest extent	Philip II of Spain	19%
Founder of Sufism	Ali	16%
Patron saint of parties	Augustine of Hippo	16%
"Father of modern taxonomy"	Carl Linnaeus	15%