Statistics for Ancient Figure by Letter

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Letter	Description	Person	% Correct
H	General who took elephants across the Alps.	Hannibal	100%
A	Mathematician and engineer who discovered a law about buoyancy and created several defensive war machines to defend Syracuse.	Archimedes	75%
E	Mathematician often called the "father of geometry".	Euclid	75%
B	Celtic queen who led an uprising against the Romans in 60 or 61 AD.	Boudica	67%
I	Chancellor and priest who designed the first Egyptian pyramid.	Imhotep	58%
R	Pharaoh who fought the Hittites at Kadesh.	Ramesses the Great	58%
C	Founder of the Achaemenid Empire.	Cyrus the Great	50%
J	Prophet who authored the Book of Kings and the Book of Lamentations.	Jeremiah	42%
L	Philosopher credited with writing Tao Te Ching.	Laozi	42%
Q	Leader who unified all of China in 221 BC.	Qin Shi Huang	42%
K	Pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza.	Khufu	33%
G	The birth name of the Buddha.	Siddhārtha Gautama	33%
Z	Founder of the official religion of the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires.	Zoroaster	33%
N	Babylonian king who ordered the construction of the Ishtar Gate and the reconstruction of Etemenanki.	Nebuchadnezzar II	25%
D	Roman emperor who farmed cabbages during his retirement.	Diocletian	17%
V	Gallic king who surrendered to Julius Caesar in 52 BC.	Vercingetorix	17%
W	The only emperor of the Xin dynasty.	Wang Mang	17%
S	First ruler of the Akkadian Empire.	Sargon the Great	8%
M	Wrestler who supposedly died when he trapped his hands in a tree he was trying to tear apart, and was then eaten by wolves.	Milo of Croton	0%
O	Soldier who deposed the last Western Roman emperor and became the first King of Italy.	Odoacer	0%
P	Sculptor who created the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.	Phidias	0%
F	Statesman of the Roman Republic who was a dictator in 221 and 217 BC.	Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus	0%
T	Illyrian queen who killed an ambassador of the Roman Republic and besieged Corcyra.	Teuta	0%
U	Founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur.	Ur-Nammu	0%
X	Athenian philosopher who wrote Anabasis and Cyropaedia, and who was one of the leaders of the mercenary force called the Ten Thousand.	Xenophon	0%
Y	A prominent disciple of Confucius, and the only known disciple from the south of China.	Yan Yan	0%