Statistics for Famous People from the 3rd Century BC

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Carthaginian general, who launched an invasion of Italy in the 2. Punic War	Hannibal Barca	85%
Syracusian mathematician and Inventor, explained the lever and hydrostatics	Archimedes	73%
King of Egypt, who build the Libary of Alexandria	Ptolemy II	65%
Mathematician and author of the Elements	Euclid	62%
United the Warring States and gave China its name	Qin Shi Huang	58%
Defeated Carthago in the 2. Punic War at Zama	Scipio Africanus	58%
Conservative roman politician, "Carthago delenda est"	Cato the Elder	50%
Ambitius king of Epirus, known for costly victories	Pyrrhus	46%
Mauryan emperor, who established Buddhism in his realm	Ashoka	42%
Leader of the Carthaginian armies in the 1. Punic War, important father	Hamilcar Barca	23%
Roman playwright, wrote Palliata comoedia	Titus Maccius Plautus	19%
First person to calculate the circumference of the earth (quite accurately)	Eratosthenes	12%
First sceptic philosopher	Pyrrho	12%
First emperor of the Han Dynasty	Gaozu of Han	8%
First astronomer to propose a heliocentric cosmos	Aristarchus of Samos	4%