Clue
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Person
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Wrote "Hamlet"
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William Shakespeare
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Killed on the Ides of March
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Julius Caesar
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Christian Messiah
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Jesus
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"Moonlight Sonata" composer
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Invented the mechanical printing press
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Started the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Margaret Thatcher
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Wrote "On the Origin of Species"
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Charles Darwin
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His "Great Leap Forward" killed over 30 million
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Mao Zedong
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"Discovered" the New World
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Christopher Columbus
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Virgin Queen of England
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Queen Elizabeth I
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"Mona Lisa" painter
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Discovered" the east coast of Australia
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James Cook
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Lord Protector of England, 1653-1658
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Oliver Cromwell
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Greek who conquered Persia
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Alexander the Great
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Led his elephants across the Alps
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Hannibal
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"New Deal" President of the U.S.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Called the "Liberator" of Latin America
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Simón Bolívar
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French woman who led troops in the Hundred Years War
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Joan of Arc
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First U.S. President
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George Washington
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First man on the moon
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Neil Armstrong
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Wrote "Great Expectations"
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Charles Dickens
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"Tao te Ching" author
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Laozi
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His laws of motion explain how the planets move
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Isaac Newton
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U.K. Prime Minister during WWII
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Winston Churchill
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Wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
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Jane Austen
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She was the first deaf and blind college graduate
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Helen Keller
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Creator of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
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First Soviet leader
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Vladimir Lenin
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Founder of Islam
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Muhammad
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Supposedly wrote "The Iliad"
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Homer
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Aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific
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Amelia Earhart
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French Emperor, 1804-1815
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Napoleon
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Father of the nation of India
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Mohandas Gandhi
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German WWII leader
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Adolf Hitler
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Battle of Trafalgar admiral
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Horatio Nelson
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U.S. Civil War President
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Abraham Lincoln
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Led the effort to create the first practical light bulb
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Thomas Edison
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Refused to give up her bus seat, in Montgomery, Alabama
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Rosa Parks
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All respect to those people, but how can you put Cromwell, Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Parks or Austen over Curie, Mandela, Pol Pot, Castro, Stalin, Copernicus, Galileo or Socrates?
Just search for the last and you'll see.
Where's Chopin? Maria Sklodowska-Curie? Sun Tzu? Mussolini? And many others?
proof
How the heck Thatcher, Earhart and FDR made the list when there was no room for Genghis Khan and Einstein?
But at least Alexander Fleming isn't there because who needs penicillin when you can just listen to Für Elise.
I’d fully support the inclusion though, of one particular person born in the Soviet Union: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Learn history before talking.
Other people I think should be here: Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Suleiman the Magnificent
very englishcentric quiz
Black America has a whole host of "was the first to..." figures. In terms of their actual accomplishments, very few of them were significant (sitting on a bus). Rosa Parks beating out Einstein on this list is just remarkable.
And I typed 'jean darc', which I think should be accepted, as her name is Jeanne D'arc in French. I based my answer off the French name.