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Hint
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Answer
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1874
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English Politician/ Soldier/ Historian. Voted 'Greatest Britain of all time', he liked cigars and flicking the 'V' at people. And he looked a bit like a baby.
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Winston Churchill
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1756
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Child genius from Vienna. In the movie he was portrayed as an immature John McEnroe type, murdered by a jealous music rival. (Not true.)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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1809
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Beardy English Scientist/ Naturalist. His rapper name would probably be 'Chucky D'.
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Charles Darwin
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1831
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Lakota chief who led the Sioux at The Battle of the Little Big Horn. Later he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show before returning home to be killed by US Indian Agents.
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Sitting Bull
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1485
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Spanish guy who dropped out of uni... and destroyed the Aztec Empire with 500 men. Bloody students!
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Hernán Cortés
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1902
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Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American author of 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men' etc. The FBI harassed him for being a bit leftie.
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John Steinbeck
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272
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He converted the Roman Empire to Christianity. Often ranked as the greatest ever Roman, but this Emperor was an esp. nasty piece of work.
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Constantine the Great
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1820
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Born in Italy, she was 'The Lady with the Lamp'/ Mother of modern nursing. Strangely enough, she was anti-women's rights and spent 60 years in bed.
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Florence Nightingale
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1870
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The Soviet Union's controversial first leader. He liked to sharpen pencils and had a nice selection of hats.
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Vladimir Lenin
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563 BCE-483 BCE?
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Tubby little semi-naked fellow who founded his own religion. His name means 'The Enlightened One'.
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Buddha
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1929
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Precocious little Dutch girl who wrote a diary and then got murdered by the Nazis.
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Anne Frank
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1395
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German inventor of movable type, the printing press and beard ethusiast.
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Johannes Gutenberg
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519 BCE
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Persian (Achaemenid) Emperor who led an unsuccessful invasion of Ancient Greece. In the 300 movies he's portrayed as a giant kinky bald guy.
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Xerxes
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1961
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Voted third 'Greatest Britain of all time' (for some reason.) She married a Prince, slept around a lot, did some charity work and died in a tunnel.
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Princess Diana
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1881
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Little Spanish guy often regarded as the greatest artist of the 20th Century. He painted lots of really good looking women... and made them all look weird. Esp. the cubist stuff.
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Pablo Picasso
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1452
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Last Plantagenet King of England. Shakespeare cast him as a hunchbacked villain. He died at the Battle of Bosworth Field and his body was recently found in a city council car park.
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Richard III
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1897
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WWI fighter ace. In WWII he was the No. 2 Nazi. Head of the Luftwaffe (Air Force). Also an art thief, morphine addict and snappy dresser.
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Hermann Göring
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1729
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Queen during Russia's 'Golden Age', She was a patron of the arts, had lots of lovers and made the lives of most Russians a lot worse.
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Catherine the Great
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Anyway, Gutenberg and Darwin are not accepted. Some constructive criticism as a welcome back present. And I'll return to my policy of not commenting on your quizzes again now...
Fixed.