Statistics for 40 Historical People that Everyone Should Know

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Clue	Person	% Correct
German WWII leader	Adolf Hitler	89%
Christian Messiah	Jesus	89%
Wrote "Hamlet"	William Shakespeare	89%
First U.S. President	George Washington	88%
"Mona Lisa" painter	Leonardo da Vinci	86%
Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech	Martin Luther King, Jr.	84%
First man on the moon	Neil Armstrong	84%
"Discovered" the New World	Christopher Columbus	83%
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	77%
U.S. Civil War President	Abraham Lincoln	75%
U.K. Prime Minister during WWII	Winston Churchill	75%
Wrote "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	74%
His laws of motion explain how the planets move	Isaac Newton	72%
Father of the nation of India	Mohandas Gandhi	72%
Founder of Islam	Muhammad	72%
French Emperor, 1804-1815	Napoleon	68%
Virgin Queen of England	Queen Elizabeth I	68%
First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	67%
Refused to give up her bus seat, in Montgomery, Alabama	Rosa Parks	63%
Led the effort to create the first practical light bulb	Thomas Edison	63%
First Soviet leader	Vladimir Lenin	62%
"Moonlight Sonata" composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	61%
Greek who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great	59%
Supposedly wrote "The Iliad"	Homer	59%
French woman who led troops in the Hundred Years War	Joan of Arc	57%
"New Deal" President of the U.S.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	52%
Killed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	51%
Wrote "Pride and Prejudice"	Jane Austen	50%
His "Great Leap Forward" killed over 30 million	Mao Zedong	47%
Wrote "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	45%
Creator of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	45%
She was the first deaf and blind college graduate	Helen Keller	44%
Led his elephants across the Alps	Hannibal	41%
Aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific	Amelia Earhart	39%
Invented the mechanical printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	39%
"Discovered" the east coast of Australia	James Cook	34%
Battle of Trafalgar admiral	Horatio Nelson	32%
Lord Protector of England, 1653-1658	Oliver Cromwell	30%
Called the "Liberator" of Latin America	Simón Bolívar	26%
"Tao te Ching" author	Laozi	12%