Statistics for Famous People from the Middle East

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Clue	Nation	Person	% Correct
Founder of Christianity	Israel	Jesus	97%
Founder of Islam	Saudi Arabia	Mohammad	97%
The last pharaoh of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar	Egypt	Cleopatra	92%
Dictator who invaded Kuwait in 1990	Iraq	Saddam Hussein	89%
Saudi citizen who founded Al-Qaeda	Saudi Arabia	Osama bin Laden	81%
Father of the modern Turkey	Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	78%
Young pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922	Egypt	Tutankhamun	78%
President who has been eroding democracy since 2014	Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	72%
Syrian dictator who refuses to give up his power	Syria	Bashar al-Assad	69%
Leader of the 1979 revolution	Iran	Ruhollah Khomeini	68%
Chairman of the PLO from 1969–2004	Palestine	Yasser Arafat	68%
Current Prime Minister of Israel	Israel	Benjamin Netanyahu	67%
Israel's first (and to date only) female Prime Minister	Israel	Golda Meir	65%
Spiritual leader who founded history's first monotheist religion	Iran	Zoroaster	53%
Egyptian president who won the Nobel Peace Prize	Egypt	Anwar Sadat	52%
Sometimes called the "Egyptian Messi"	Egypt	Mohamed Salah	50%
Great king who established the first Persian Empire	Iran	Cyrus the Great	49%
Babylonian King whose code of laws called for "an eye for an eye"	Iraq	Hammurabi	47%
"Magnificent" sultan who ruled the Ottoman Empire for 46 years	Turkey	Suleiman the Magnificent	47%
American-born Queen of Jordan	Jordan	Queen Noor	16%