Statistics for 100 Most Significant Figures in American History

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	Hint		% Correct
Trailblazers	1492	Christopher Columbus	95%
Strong Women	The first First Lady	Martha Washington	95%
Presidents	First President	George Washington	94%
Political Rebels	"I Have a Dream..."	Martin Luther King Jr.	94%
Presidents	"New Deal", WWII	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	92%
Trailblazers	Went to the Moon	Neil Armstrong	92%
Pop Culture Icons	Jazz Trumpeteer, Singer and Actor	Louis Armstrong	91%
Presidents	Emancipation Proclamation	Abraham Lincoln	90%
Presidents	Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	90%
Strong Women	First Lady During WWII	Eleanor Roosevelt	89%
Pop Culture Icons	"Thriller"	Michael Jackson	88%
Presidents	Panama Canal	Theodore Roosevelt	87%
Empire-Builders	Microsoft	Bill Gates	86%
Empire-Builders	Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	86%
Presidents	"War on Terror"	George W. Bush	85%
Political Rebels	Confederate General	Robert E. Lee	82%
Pop Culture Icons	Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	81%
Empire-Builders	Light Bulb	Thomas Alva Edison	81%
Presidents	Cold War, Iran-Contra	Ronald W. Reagan	80%
Presidents	Union General	Ulysses S. Grant	80%
Athletes	Governator of California	Arnold Schwarzenegger	79%
Athletes	Won "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match	Billie Jean King	79%
Pop Culture Icons	"Jailhouse Rock"	Elvis Presley	79%
Pop Culture Icons	"Like a Virgin"	Madonna	79%
Trailblazers	Namesake river in NY	Henry Hudson	78%
Trailblazers	Jamestown	John Smith	78%
Religious Figures	Latter Day Saints	Joseph Smith Jr.	78%
Strong Women	First Female President?	Hillary Clinton	77%
Strong Women	Deaf-Blind Author-Activist	Helen Keller	75%
Outlaws	Lincoln's Assassin	John Wilkes Booth	75%
Empire-Builders	Standard Oil	John D. Rockefeller	74%
Pop Culture Icons	Mustachioed silent actor	Charlie Chaplin	72%
Athletes	The Great Bambino	Babe Ruth	71%
Trailblazers	Corps of Discovery	Meriwether Lewis and William Clark	70%
Presidents	US Constitution	James Madison	69%
Empire-Builders	Detroit	Henry Ford	68%
Presidents	League of Nations	Woodrow Wilson	68%
Athletes	Chicago Bulls	Michael Jordan	67%
Athletes	"Rumble in the Jungle"	Muhammad Ali	66%
Pop Culture Icons	"Some Like It Hot"	Marilyn Monroe	65%
Artists	Campbell's Soup Can	Andy Warhol	63%
Strong Women	Hull House	Jane Addams	63%
Outlaws	Revolutionary War Traitor	Benedict Arnold	61%
Athletes	Broke baseball's color barrier	Jackie Robinson	61%
Strong Women	McCain's VP candidate	Sarah Palin	60%
Pop Culture Icons	Ol' Blue Eyes	Frank Sinatra	58%
Outlaws	Shot by the coward, Ford	Jesse James	57%
Pop Culture Icons	"Purple Haze"	Jimi Hendrix	57%
Political Rebels	Women's Suffrage Leaders	Susan B. Anthony	57%
Outlaws	St. Valentine's Day Massacre	Al Capone	56%
Empire-Builders	US Steel	Andrew Carnegie	54%
Trailblazers	Native American Guide	Sacagawea	54%
Political Rebels	"Common Sense"	Thomas Paine	54%
Outlaws	Dallas, TX Sniper	Lee Harvey Oswald	53%
Religious Figures	Created Salt Lake City	Brigham Young	52%
Political Rebels	Seized Harper's Ferry	John Brown	49%
Religious Figures	Founded the "Quaker State"	William Penn	49%
Outlaws	"Helter Skelter"	Charles Manson	44%
Political Rebels	Lakota Holy Man	Sitting Bull	43%
Political Rebels	Narrative of the Life of an American Slave	Frederick Douglass	38%
Religious Figures	Scientology	L. Ron Hubbard	38%
Artists	Drip Painting	Jackson Pollock	36%
Athletes	Invented Basketball	James Naismith	36%
Trailblazers	Defined the "New World"	Amerigo Vespucci	35%
Athletes	WWF Wrestler	Hulk Hogan	35%
Strong Women	Jamestown, English Court	Pocahontas	35%
Strong Women	Actress, All About Eve	Bette Davis	33%
Pop Culture Icons	"All Along the Watchtowers"	Bob Dylan	33%
Artists	"Prairie School" Architect	Frank Lloyd Wright	33%
Artists	Painted flowers & the Southwest	Georgia O’Keeffe	33%
Empire-Builders	The "Spruce Goose"	Howard Hughes	31%
Empire-Builders	NY Central Railroad	Cornelius Vanderbilt	28%
Political Rebels		Elizabeth Cady Stanton	28%
Empire-Builders	Yellow Journalism	William Randolph Hearst	27%
Athletes	Native American Olympian and pro footballer, basketballer	Jim Thorpe	24%
Political Rebels	Founded NAACP	W.E.B. Du Bois	24%
Religious Figures	Free Will Baptist Movement	Roger Williams	22%
Strong Women	Ain't I a Woman? activist	Sojourner Truth	21%
Outlaws	Lincoln County War	Billy the Kid	20%
Religious Figures	Christian Science	Mary Baker Eddy	20%
Outlaws	His exploits helped create the FBI	John Dillinger	19%
Trailblazers	The Sierra Club	John Muir	19%
Athletes	The Georgia Peach	Ty Cobb	19%
Empire-Builders	General Electric	J.P. Morgan	18%
Outlaws	Tammany Hall	William M. “Boss” Tweed	18%
Strong Women	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	15%
Artists	The Birds of America	John James Audubon	15%
Religious Figures	Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	Jonathan Edwards	13%
Political Rebels	Leader of the Shawnee	Tecumseh	13%
Trailblazers	Explorer of the West	Kit Carson	10%
Religious Figures	Banished from Massachusetts	Anne Hutchinson	8%
Religious Figures	Salem Witch Trials	Cotton Mather	7%
Artists	Created modern Santa Claus	Thomas Nast	7%
Outlaws	Dead Man's Hand	Wild Bill Hickok	7%
Artists	Landscape Architecture	Frederick Law Olmsted	5%
Artists	"Art for Art's Sake" Painter	James A. M. Whistler	5%
Artists	Photographer, married to above	Alfred Stieglitz	4%
Religious Figures	7th Day Adventist	Ellen G. White	4%
Trailblazers	Explored the Atlantic Coast	Giovanni da Verrazzano	4%
Artists	Philadelphia art teacher	Thomas Eakins	1%