Clue | Person | % Correct |
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"Great" empress of Russia | Catherine the Great | 77%
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The real-life inspiration for Dracula | Vlad the Impaler | 59%
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Serbian inventor whose AC power defeated Edison's DC power | Nikola Tesla | 57%
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Founder of modern nursing who tended to soldiers in the Crimean War | Florence Nightingale | 53%
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American actress who married Monaco's Prince Rainier | Grace Kelly | 51%
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President of North Vietnam until his death in 1969 | Ho Chi Minh | 51%
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First man to orbit the Earth | Yuri Gagarin | 46%
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Father of modern Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 45%
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Babylonian ruler known for his written code of "an eye for an eye" | Hammurabi | 44%
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British commander at Waterloo | Duke of Wellington | 43%
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Third wife of Henry VIII | Jane Seymour | 42%
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First European to reach America | Leif Ericson | 41%
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Revolutionary War general who switched from American to British allegiance | Benedict Arnold | 39%
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The inventor of the radio (according to most) | Guglielmo Marconi | 39%
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Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 37%
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Spanish King who launched an Armada against England | Philip II | 37%
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Steel tycoon who started thousands of libraries | Andrew Carnegie | 36%
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Most well-known Zulu leader | Shaka | 36%
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"Great" King of Prussia | Frederick the Great | 33%
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Muslim commander who battled the Crusaders and earned their respect | Saladin | 33%
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Dutchman who "discovered" Tasmania | Abel Tasman | 28%
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Economist who proposed government stimulus to correct the Great Depression | John Maynard Keynes | 27%
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Lakota war leader who defeated Custer | Crazy Horse | 25%
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Romantic poet and seducer who died fighting for Greek independence | Lord Byron | 25%
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Jewish officer wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 France | Alfred Dreyfus | 24%
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"Great" Byzantine emperor who conquered Italy | Justinian | 22%
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Chinese leader who made free market reforms after Mao's death | Deng Xiaoping | 18%
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First emperor of China who took mercury pills to seek immortality | Qin Shi Huang | 14%
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Egyptian sometimes called the world's first architect and doctor | Imhotep | 13%
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Man who doubled wheat yields in South Asia - saving millions from starvation | Norman Borlaug | 4%
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