Statistics for Top 10 most important and famous people from South Africa

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999	Nelson Mandela	100%
Business magnate, Space X, Tesla	Elon Musk	95%
Bishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996	Desmond Tutu	84%
Last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1993	F. W. de Klerk	74%
Actress, famous for her roles in The Devil's Advocate and Mighty Joe Young, winner of Academy Award in 2004	Charlize Theron	63%
Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation	Christiaan Barnard	47%
Female writer, author of Burger's Daughter and July's People, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991	Nadine Gordimer	37%
Writer, author of Elizabeth Costello and The Childhood of Jesus, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003	J. M. Coetzee	32%
Golf player, who won all four majors in his career	Gary Player	26%
Virologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever	Max Theiler	5%