Question | Answer | % Correct |
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An American aviation pioneer and writer. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. | Amelia Earhart | 96%
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A British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. | James Cook | 92%
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A Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, he led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator of Rome from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. | Julius Caesar | 92%
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The founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of the Mongol steppe and being proclaimed the universal ruler of the Mongols. | Genghis Khan | 83%
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Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. | Cleopatra | 79%
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An American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. | Jackie Robinson | 75%
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A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. | Archimedes | 71%
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A German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. | Johannes Kepler | 63%
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An Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. | Ernest Shackleton | 58%
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An American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. | Buzz Aldrin | 29%
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