Statistics for Top 100 People of the Millennium

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Gravity, falling apples	Isaac Newton	98%
E=mc squared	Albert Einstein	93%
All the world's a stage, to be or not to be	William Shakespeare	92%
Third Reich	Adolf Hitler	89%
1st president	George Washington	88%
Beagle, Galapagos	Charles Darwin	81%
Printing press	Johann Gutenberg	80%
Waterloo	Napoleon	80%
Id, ego and superego	Sigmund Freud	78%
Genoan sailor	Christopher Columbus	76%
Fermentation and pasturization	Louis Pasteur	75%
Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	75%
Rock and roll in blue suede shoes	Elvis Presley	74%
95 theses	Martin Luther	74%
Sistine chapel	Michelangelo	74%
Brothers in the air	Wright Brothers	69%
I have a dream	Martin Luther King Jr	68%
Celebrity activist, people's princess,	Princess Diana	68%
Workers of the world unite.	Karl Marx	67%
German composer	Johann Sebastian Bach	65%
Died of leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation.	Marie Curie	65%
Windows	Bill Gates	64%
ANC, apartheid	Nelson Mandela	64%
Blue period, cubism	Pablo Picasso	64%
Heliocentric scientist under house arrest	Galileo Galilei	63%
ADHD renaissance man	Leonardo da Vinci	63%
All power to the Soviets, NEP	Lenin	60%
Venetian traveller	Marco Polo	60%
The Magic Flute, Requiem	Mozart	60%
Heliocentric revolution	Nicholas Copernicus	60%
Hollywood, Governor, President	Ronald Reagan	59%
Journey through hell	Dante	58%
Liberator of South America	Simon Bolivar	58%
Emancipation	Abraham Lincoln	56%
Postmaster flying a kite in a lightning storm with bifocals	Benjamin Franklin	56%
Longest president	Franklin D. Roosevelt	56%
E.T., Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	56%
Tesla assisted inventor	Thomas Edison	56%
Virgin queen	Elizabeth I	54%
Salt march	Mahatma Gandhi	52%
French saint	Joan of Arc	51%
Frozen animator	Walt Disney	51%
Cured syphilis, penicillin	Alexander Fleming	49%
Glasnost and perestroika	Mikhail Gorbachev	49%
On the Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	46%
Candide	Voltaire	46%
Crimean War nurse	Florence Nightingale	45%
Went around the world	Ferdinand Magellan	44%
We shall never surrender	Winston Churchill	44%
Socialism in one country, cult of personality, the Great Purges	Joseph Stalin	42%
Largest land empire	Genghis Khan	41%
Jazz, Satchmo	Louis Armstrong	40%
Started the British invasion of Ameirca (group name)	the Beatles	40%
the Prince	Machiavelli	39%
Battle of Hastings	William the Conqueror	39%
Responsible for the Inquistion, Coloumbus and Reconquista	Isabella of Castile	38%
Steam Engine	James Watt	37%
Father of the Atomic Bomb	Robert Oppenheimer	37%
The Long March	Mao Zedong	36%
A priest who grew peas	Gregor Mendel	34%
The Little Tramp	Charlie Chaplin	33%
A day in Dublin, stream of consciousness	James Joyce	33%
First lady, activist, delegate to the UN	Eleanor Roosevelt	30%
Suffragete, dollar coin	Susan B Anthony	29%
Polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	28%
Mr. Watson, come here, I want you	Alexander Graham Bell	26%
Portuguese explorer, Cape of Good Hope	Vasco da Gama	26%
Smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	24%
Wireless telegraph, short wave	Marconi	24%
Philosopher of Konigsberg	Immanuel Kant	20%
Uncertainity Principle	Werner Heisenberg	20%
Westernized Russia, worked in Dutch shipyard	Peter the Great	19%
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	19%
Planned Parenthood	Margaret Sanger	18%
Moses of her people	Harriet Tubman	17%
19th century novelist idolized by university coeds	Jane Austen	16%
Ottoman Sultan	Suleiman	16%
Electro-magnetic force	Michael Faraday	15%
Scientific method	Francis Bacon	14%
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	14%
Pioneer in computing	Charles Babbage	13%
The Birth of a Nation	D.W. Griffith	11%
19th/20th century Italian opera singer	Enrico Caruso	11%
Atomic theory, quantum mechanics	Neils Bohr	11%
Brought AIDS to North America (not a real name)	Patient Zero	10%
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains	Rousseau	10%
A blank slate	John Locke	9%
Circulation of blood	William Harvey	9%
Nuclear chain reaction in a squash court	Enrico Fermi	8%
French photographer	Louis Daguerre	8%
Vindication on the Rights of Women	Mary Wollstonecraft	8%
The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short	Thomas Hobbes	8%
Abolitionist and suffragette	Elizabeth Stanton	5%
The "Pill"	Gregory Pincus	2%
Pope - enforced celibacy, fought the emperor, investiture controversy	Gregory VII	1%
TV/RCA	Vladimir Zworykin	0%