Statistics for Top 20 most important and famous people from Greece

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Husband of Queen Elizabeth II	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	93%
Soprano, one of the most influential opera singers of XX century	Maria Callas	64%
Tennis player fourth in the ATP ranking	Stefanos Tsitsipas	57%
Director of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, three times winner of Academy Award	Elia Kazan	46%
Actress, singer, activist, and politician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film Never on Sunday	Melina Mercouri	32%
Writer, author of Zorba the Greek, Christ Recrucified and The Last Temptation of Christ	Nikos Kazantzakis	32%
Politician a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996	Andreas Papandreou	29%
Leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. Prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms between 1910 and 1933	Eleftherios Venizelos	29%
Romantic modernist writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979	Odysseas Elytis	25%
Military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973	Georgios Papadopoulos	21%
Modernist poet, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963	Giorgos Seferis	21%
Composer of The Ballad of Mauthausen, which has been described as the most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust. He was also a politician	Mikis Theodorakis	21%
Greece's national poet. He is best known for the Hymn to Liberty	Dionysios Solomos	18%
Actress famous for her roles in The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek and The Trojan Women	Irene Papas	18%
Scholar founder of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment	Adamantios Korais	14%
Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019	Alexis Tsipras	14%
Greek-Egyptian poet, journalist, translator and civil servant	Constantine P. Cavafy	14%
Military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941	Ioannis Metaxas	14%
Actress famous for her role in For Whom the Bell Tolls, winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1944	Katina Paxinou	14%
Writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. Pioneer of the Greek War of Independence remembered as a national hero in Greece	Rigas Feraios	11%