Statistics for Historical Figures by Letter - L

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Hint	Figure	% Correct
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	98%
Leader of the Bolsheviks	V.I. Lenin	97%
John Wilkes Booth's victim	Abraham Lincoln	96%
"Sun King" of France	Louis XIV	94%
Top confederate general during the U.S. Civil War	Robert E. Lee	82%
Belgian king who brutally exploited the Congo	Leopold II	81%
With Clark, he explored the Louisiana Purchase	Meriwether Lewis	77%
First to fly solo and non-stop from New York to Paris	Charles Lindbergh	74%
British officer who helped Arabs revolt in WWI	T. E. Lawrence	73%
Mark David Chapman's victim	John Lennon	68%
Presumably, Stanley found him	David Livingstone	65%
Spartan leader at Thermopylae	Leonidas	61%
Australian actor who won an Oscar after his death	Heath Ledger	60%
Founder of Daoism	Laozi	56%
Piano virtuoso who composed "Hungarian Rhapsody"	Franz Liszt	51%
Scarred Austrian F1 driver	Niki Lauda	39%
World’s first computer programmer	Ada Lovelace	25%
Swedish children's books who wrote "Pippi Longstocking"	Astrid Lindgren	25%
Former slave who brought Haiti to independence	Toussaint Louverture	22%
First person to see single-celled organisms	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	18%