Statistics for 150 Historical Figures

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Hint	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Central figure of Christianity	6/4 BC - 30/33 AD	Jesus	100%
Roman general, killed on the Ides of March	100 - 44 BC	Julius Caesar	100%
Fuehrer of Nazi Germany, dictator in World War II	1889 - 1945	Adolf Hitler	97%
German Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution	1929 - 1945	Anne Frank	97%
The "king of rock and roll"	1935 - 1977	Elvis Presley	97%
First U.S President	1732 - 1799	George Washington	97%
Philosopher, wrote the "Communist Manifesto"	1818 - 1883	Karl Marx	97%
Italian artist and polymath, painted the "Mona Lisa"	1452 - 1519	Leonardo da Vinci	97%
First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	1925 - 2013	Margaret Thatcher	97%
Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech	1929 - 1968	Martin Luther King Jr	97%
Founder of Islam	571 - 632	Muhammad	97%
French Emperor, 1804-1815	1769 - 1821	Napoleon	97%
First man on the moon	1930 - 2012	Neil Armstrong	97%
First president of South Africa, brought peace to a racially divided country and led the fight for human rights	1918 - 2013	Nelson Mandela	97%
Virgin Queen of England	1533 - 1603	Queen Elizabeth I	97%
Led the effort to create the first practical light bulb	1847 - 1931	Thomas Edison	97%
First Soviet leader	1870 - 1924	Vladimir Lenin	97%
English poet, wrote "Hamlet"	1564 - 1616	William Shakespeare	97%
U.K. Prime Minister during WWII	1874 - 1965	Winston Churchill	97%
U.S Civil War President	1809 - 1865	Abraham Lincoln	93%
Theoretical physicist, creator (more accurately proposer or discoverer) of the Theory of Relativity	1879 - 1955	Albert Einstein	93%
Italian dictator and journalist, founded the National Fascist Party	1883 - 1945	Benito Mussolini	93%
English naturalist, wrote "On the Origin of Species"	1809 - 1882	Charles Darwin	93%
Italian explorer who "discovered" the New World	1451 - 1506	Christopher Columbus	93%
Queen of Egypt, last active ruler	51 - 30 BC	Cleopatra	93%
French woman who led troops in the Hundred Years War	1412 - 1431	Joan of Arc	93%
35th U.S president, Cuban Missile Crisis	1917 - 1963	John F. Kennedy	93%
Premier of the USSR, involved in World War II	1878 - 1953	Joseph Stalin	93%
American jazz trumpeter, regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz	1901 - 1971	Louis Armstrong	93%
German pianist and composer of "Moonlight Sonata"	1770 - 1827	Ludwig Van Beethoven	93%
Started the Protestant Reformation	1483 - 1546	Martin Luther	93%
Greek philosopher, wrote "The Republic"	428 - 348 B.C	Plato	93%
Queen of Britain, Victorian era	1819 - 1901	Queen Victoria	93%
American Founding Father, 3rd U.S. President	1743 - 1826	Thomas Jefferson	93%
Austrian composer, wrote "Don Giovanni"	1756 - 1791	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	93%
King of ancient Greek who conquered Persia	356 - 323 BC	Alexander the Great	90%
Cuban revolutionary, who served as Cuba's Prime Minister	1926 - 2016	Fidel Castro	90%
32nd U.S President during the Great Depression and World War II	1882 - 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt	90%
Founder of the Mongol Empire	1162 - 1227	Genghis Khan	90%
English mathmatician, physicist and astronomer, his laws of motion explain how the planets move	1643 - 1727	Isaac Newton	90%
English singer, member of The Beatles, assassinated by a fan	1940 - 1980	John Lennon	90%
Father of the nation of India	1869 - 1948	Mahatma Gandhi	90%
American singer, became known as the "King of Pop"	1958 - 2009	Michael Jackson	90%
Antepenultimate pharaoh of ancient Egypt, his tomb was the only royal burial found intact in modern times	1332 - 1323 BCE	Tutankhamun	90%
American entrepeneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company	1901 - 1966	Walt Disney	90%
English writer, wrote "Great Expectations"	1812 - 1870	Charles Dickens	86%
Founder of Ford Motor Company	1863 - 1947	Henry Ford	86%
Supposedly wrote "The Iliad"	8th century BC	Homer	86%
American Founding Father and 2nd U.S President	1735 - 1826	John Adams	86%
Chinese president, his "Great Leap Forward" killed over 30 million	1893 - 1976	Mao Zedong	86%
American actress and model, known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters	1926 - 1962	Marilyn Monroe	86%
Saudi-Arabian terrorist, caused the attacks of 9/11	1957 - 2011	Osama Bin Laden	86%
Member of the British royal family, died in a car crash	1961 - 1997	Princess Diana	86%
Greek philosopher and teacher, sentenced to death by hemlock	470 – 399 BC	Socrates	86%
Co-founder and CEO of Apple, chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar	1955 - 2011	Steve Jobs	86%
26th U.S President, Progressive Movement	1858 - 1919	Theodore Roosevelt	86%
Post-impressionist painter, painted "Starry Night"	1853 - 1890	Vincent Van Gogh	86%
American writer, wrote "The Raven"	1809 - 1849	Edgar Allan Poe	83%
British singer and lead vocalist of rock band "Queen"	1946 - 1991	Freddie Mercury	83%
Carthaginian general, led his elephants across the Alps	247 - 181 BC	Hannibal	83%
King of England, had six wives	1491 - 1547	Henry VIII	83%
Creator of psychoanalysis	1856 - 1939	Sigmund Freud	83%
Greek philosopher and polymath	384 - 322 BC	Aristotle	79%
Italian physicist and astronomer	1564 - 1642	Galileo Galilei	79%
33rd U.S. President, ordered the dropping of the Atomic bombs	1884 - 1972	Harry S. Truman	79%
Japanese Emperor during World War II	1926 - 1989	Hirohito	79%
Explorer and discoverer of Hawaii and Australia	1728 - 1779	James Cook	79%
American professional boxer, nicknamed "The Greatest"	1942 - 2016	Muhammad Ali	79%
Last Russian Emperor, executed during Russian revolution	1868 - 1918	Nicholas II	79%
Spanish painter, painted "Guernica"	1881 - 1973	Pablo Picasso	79%
Brazilian football player, regarded as the greatest of his time	1940 - 2022	Pele	79%
Occupied an iconic status in the civil rights movement for refusing to give up her bus seat	1913 - 2005	Rosa Parks	79%
American Founding Father, scientist, captured lightning	1706 - 1790	Benjamin Franklin	76%
Jamaican singer and songwriter, considered one of the pioneers of reggae	1645 - 1981	Bob Marley	76%
Polish-born physicist and chemist, had groundbreaking research on radioactivity	1867 - 1934	Marie Curie	76%
Called the "Liberator" of Latin America	1783 - 1830	Simón Bolívar	76%
First Holy Roman Emperor, considered the "Father of Europe"	768 - 814	Charlemagne	72%
Founder and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest cloud computing company	1964 - ALIVE	Jeff Bezos	72%
German inventor, invented the mechanical printing press	1406 - 1468	Johannes Gutenberg	72%
German composer of the late Baroque period.	1685 - 1750	Johann Sebastian Bach	72%
American author, wrote "Huckleberry Finn"	1835 - 1910	Mark Twain	72%
Final leader of the Soviet Union, allowed freedom to Eastern Europe countries, awarded Nobel Peace Prize	1931 - 2022	Mikhail Gorbachev	72%
Serbian-American inventor, discovered alternating current	1856 - 1943	Nikola Tesla	72%
Lord Protector of England, involved in the English Civil War	1599 - 1658	Oliver Cromwell	72%
Russian controversial figure who gained influence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II and his family	1869 - 1916	Rasputin	72%
Fastest man of all time	1986 - ALIVE	Usain Bolt	72%
Chinese philosopher known as the first teacher in China who wanted to make education broadly available	551 - 479 BC	Confucius	69%
Spanish military general during the Spanish Civil War and ruled over Spain as a dictator	1892 - 1975	Francisco Franco	69%
German philosopher, "God is Dead"	1844 - 1900	Friedrich Nietzsche	69%
British officer, battle of Trafalgar admiral	1758 - 1805	Horatio Nelson	69%
English novelist, wrote "Pride and Prejudice"	1775 - 1817	Jane Austen	69%
Most successful swimmer in history	1985 - ALIVE	Michael Phelps	69%
Cambodian political leader, who caused the "Cambodian genocide"	1925 - 1998	Pol Pot	69%
Scottish inventor, invented the telephone	1847 - 1922	Alexander Graham Bell	66%
Founded software giant Microsoft	1955 - ALIVE	Bill Gates	66%
American actor and retired professional wrestler "The Rock"	1972 - ALIVE	Dwayne Johnson	66%
Mexican painter known for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors	1907 - 1954	Frida Kahlo	66%
Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and martial artist, known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style	1954 - ALIVE	Jackie Chan	66%
Founded the Missionaries of Charity in India in 1950	1910 - 1997	Mother Teresa	66%
Astronomer, theorized a heliocentric cosmology	1473 - 1543	Nicolaus Copernicus	66%
Scottish economist, wrote "On the Wealth of Nations"	1723 - 1790	Adam Smith	62%
American criminal and cult leader whose followers carried out several murders in the late 1960s	1960 - 1994	Charles Manson	62%
Founder and CEO of SpaceX, product architect of Tesla	1971 - ALIVE	Elon Musk	62%
Argentine professional football player widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time	1987 - ALIVE	Lionel Messi	62%
King of France, executed in the French Revolution	1754 - 1793	Louis XVI	62%
French philosopher, coined the term "I think, therefore I am" (cogito ergo sum)	1596 - 1650	René Descartes	62%
French Enlightenment philosopher, wrote "Candide"	1694 - 1778	Voltaire	62%
English king, lost the American colonies and went mad	1738 - 1820	George III	59%
Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time	1963 - ALIVE	Michael Jordan	59%
Colombian drug lord and one of the most notorious criminals in history	1949 - 1993	Pablo Escobar	59%
King of England, Norman Conquest	1028 -1087	William the Conqueror	59%
4th U.S President, involved in War of 1812	1751 - 1836	James Madison	55%
First ruling queen of England and attempted to restore the Catholic faith	1516 - 1558	Mary I	55%
One of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time	1966 - ALIVE	Mike Tyson	55%
First Chancellor and unifier of modern Germany	1815 - 1898	Otto von Bismarck	55%
American singer and actor, nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board"	1915 - 1998	Frank Sinatra	52%
Canadian actor "John Wick"	1964 - ALIVE	Keanu Reeves	52%
After escaping slavery and using the Underground Railroad, she rescued many enslaved people	1822 - 1913	Harriet Tubman	48%
One of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution	1758 - 1794	Maximilien Robespierre	48%
Greatest writer in the Spanish language	1547 - 1616	Miguel De Cervantes	48%
King of England, involved in the English Civil War	1600 - 1649	Charles I	45%
U.S general, served in both World Wars	1880 - 1964	Douglas MacArthur	45%
King of Spain, organized the Spanish Armada	1527 - 1598	Phillip II	45%
Last German emperor and king of Prussia	1859 - 1941	Wilhelm II	41%
German philosopher, one of the central Enlightenment thinkers	1724 - 1804	Immanuel Kant	38%
King of England, responsible for the KJV Bible	1566 - 1625	James I	38%
Greek mathematician, contributed to the mathematical constant pi (π)	287 - 212 BC	Archimedes	34%
American singer, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation	1958 - 2016	Prince	31%
Spanish painter, painted "Las Meninas"	1599 - 1660	Diego Velázquez	28%
American actor, known for his distinctive deep voice and various roles in a wide variety of film genres	1937 - ALIVE	Morgan Freeman	24%
First emperor of Rome, Pax Romana	63 BC - 14 AD	Augustus Caesar	21%
Emperor of Rome, allowed toleration of Christianity	272 - 337 AD	Constantine the Great	21%
American writer and professor of biochemistry, considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers	1920 - 1992	Isaac Asimov	21%
American singer, songwriter, and actor, played Chef on "South Park"	1942 - 2008	Isaac Hayes	21%
Early Christian leader	64 - 68 AD	Saint Peter	21%
Chinese military general who never lost a battle	771 - 256 BC	Sun Tzu	21%
Swedish biologist, father of Taxonomy	1707 - 1778	Carl Linnaeus	17%
Spanish poet, murdered by Nationalist forces	1898 - 1936	Federico García Lorca	17%
Most prolific serial killer in modern day by abusing his powers as a doctor	1946 - 2004	Harold Shipman	17%
Central figure of Buddhism	564 BC	Guatama Buddha	14%
Philosopher, wrote "On the Social Contract"	1712 - 1778	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	14%
Christian apostle and missionary	5 - 65 AD	Paul the Apostle	14%
American activist, author and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements	1815 -1902	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	10%
English Enlightenment philosopher, theorized "tabla rasa"	1632 - 1704	John Locke	10%
Australian operatic soprano and one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century	1926 - 2010	Joan Sutherland	7%
American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism	1805 - 1844	Joseph Smith Jr	7%
Alsatian polymath, gave lectures in Europe to fundraise for his hospital back in Africa	1875 - 1965	Albert Schweitzer	3%
Last queen of France before the French revolution, and was executed during it	1755 - 1793	María Antonieta	0%
Founded the social media website Facebook	1984 - ALIVE	Mark Zuckerbeg	0%
Italian sculptor and Renaissance man, sculpted "David"	1475 - 1564	Miguel Ángel	0%