Statistics for Biography Online's 100 Most Influential People

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
3: Son of God and founder of Christianity	Jesus	96%
1: Prophet of Islam	Muhammad	96%
10: German-American scientist who developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	94%
9: Explorer who discovered the Americas	Christopher Columbus	92%
2: British scientist who discovered gravity and electromagnetism	Isaac Newton	92%
5: Chinese philosopher	Confucius	91%
26: 1st President of the US and Founding Father	George Washington	91%
81: 38th President of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis, famous for his death in 1963	John F. Kennedy	91%
66: Brutal dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 throughout WWII to his death in 1953	Joseph Stalin	91%
45: German composer who was deaf	Ludwig van Beethoven	91%
50: Renaissance painter who created the roof of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	91%
39: Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-45	Adolf Hitler	89%
94: Tudor Queen of England	Elizabeth I	89%
98: Greek poet and "Illiad" author	Homer	89%
89: Dictator of China from 1947-1974	Mao Zedong	89%
34: French general who commanded France throughout European wars in the early-1800s	Napoleon Bonaparte	89%
35: Inventor of the light bulb	Thomas Edison	89%
16: Scientist who proposed the theory of evolution	Charles Darwin	87%
91: Owner of automobile manufacturer during the 1920s and 30s	Henry Ford	87%
67: Roman ruler who ran military campaigns throughout Europe until his assassination in 44 BC on the Ides	Julius Caesar	87%
25: Father of the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	87%
27: Author of the "Communist Manifesto" along with Friedrich Engels	Karl Marx	85%
15: Jewish/Christian prophet who wrote the Ten Commandments and parted the seas	Moses	85%
31: English poet and playwright who revolutionized the English language	William Shakespeare	85%
13: Greek philosopher who was taught by Plato	Aristotle	83%
4: Founder of Buddhism	Buddha	83%
95: Soviet premier who dissolved the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	83%
84: Leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution	Vladimir Lenin	83%
28: Brothers who flew the first plane	Wright Brothers	83%
33: King of Macedonia and founder of the Macedon Empire	Alexander the Great	81%
8: Inventor of the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	81%
48: Latin American liberator	Simon Bolivar	81%
64: 3rd President of the US, principle author of the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	81%
12: Italian scientist who confirmed the heliocentric view of the universe	Galileo Galilei	79%
29: Leader of the Mongols and created the largest land empire in history	Genghis Khan	79%
88: Tsar who expanded Russia during the 1700s, making it a European power	Peter the Great	79%
40: Greek philosopher who taught Aristotle	Plato	79%
42: Scottish father of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	77%
69: Austrian pseudoscientist who founded psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	75%
18: First Emperor of Rome	Augustus	72%
72: German composer. Some of his most famous pieces are played on cello	Johann Sebastian Bach	72%
11: French scientist who developed efficient ways to clean food products and developed cures for infectious diseases	Louis Pasteur	72%
86: Portuguese explorer and first European to reach India	Vasco da Gama	72%
49: French philosopher who said "I think therefore I am"	Rene Descartes	66%
30: Scottish social philosopher who pioneered modern economics	Adam Smith	64%
43: Scottish father of penicillin	Alexander Fleming	62%
19: Mathematician who believed the Sun was at the centre of the universe rather than Earth	Nicolaus Copernicus	62%
97: 9th century emperor who united Europe	Charlemagne	58%
38: Italian engineer who developed radio transmittion	Guglielmo Marconi	58%
41: Leader of the Roundheads during the English Civil War	Oliver Cromwell	57%
14: Greek mathematician who fathered geometry	Euclid	53%
62: Also a Spanish conqueror, this time ending the Incan Empire	Francisco Pizarro	51%
74: French political author who wrote during and about the French Revolution	Voltaire	51%
51: Pope who called the First Crusade in 1096	Urban II	45%
57: Christian theologian who developed his own brand of Protestant Christianity	John Calvin	43%
99: Emperor of Byzantium	Justinian	43%
58: Czech-Austrian scientist who founded the modern study of genetics	Gregor Mendel	40%
87: Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	38%
22: Scottish engineer who created the first efficient steam engine	James Watt	38%
6. Christian missionary who wrote the majority of the New Testament	Saint Paul	38%
93: Prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	38%
70: Developed the first vaccine	Edward Jenner	34%
76: Italian-American physicist who made the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	30%
83: Founder of Manichaeism	Mani	28%
59: German theoretical physicist who developed quantum theories and discovered energy quanta	Max Planck	28%
23: English scientist who contributed in electromagnetism and electrochemistry	Michael Faraday	28%
56: British physicist who first split the atom	Ernest Rutherford	25%
75: German mathematician who created the laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	25%
54: Christian saint and writer who developed much of Western Christian thought	St. Augustine	25%
36. Dutch chemist and father of microbiology	Antony van Leeuwenhoek	23%
90: Philosopher and statesman, creator of scientific figures during the Enlightenment	Francis Bacon	23%
65: Queen of Castile who helped create a much more powerful Spain	Isabella I	23%
77: Swiss mathematician who made discoveries in calculus and graphing	Leonhard Euler	23%
60: British surgeon who first used antiseptic during his 19th century surgery	Joseph Lister	21%
46: German pioneer of Quantum mechanics	Werner Heisenberg	21%
21: Roman Emperor who accepted Christianity into the Roman emperor	Constantine the Great	19%
24: Scottish mathematician who revolutionized electromagnetism	James Clerk Maxwell	19%
78: French philosopher and author of "Social Contract"	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	15%
44: English political philosopher who promoted modern liberal democracy	John Locke	15%
73: Founder of Taoism	Lao Tzu	13%
82: American scientist who created the oral contraceptive	Gregory Pincus	9%
96: Egyptian Pharaoh who united Egypt in 3000 BC	Menes	9%
80: English scholar who raised concern of rising population	Thomas Malthus	9%
63: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs	Hernando Cortes	4%
100: Tirthankara of Jainism	Mahavira	4%
79: Italian diplomat who is considered the father of political science	Nicoli Machiavelli	4%
55: English physician who developed the idea of blood circulation	William Harvey	4%
20: French chemist who lead the Chemical Revolution	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	2%
53: Indian monarch who founded the Maurya Empire	Asoka	2%
32: English chemist who made influential contributions to atomic theory	John Dalton	2%
47: French artist and photographer who is believed to have invented the camera	Louis Daguerre	2%
92: Chinese philosopher and interpreter of Confucianism	Mencius	2%
7: Inventor of paper	Ts'ai Lun	2%
61: German engineer who fathered the petrol engine	Nikolaus August Otto	0%
17: King of the State of Qin who united China in 221 BCE	Shih Huang Ti	0%
85: Founder of the Sui Dynasty during the 6th century	Sui Wen Ti	0%
52: Powerful Muslim caliph and close senior companion to Prophet Muhammad	Umar ibn al-Khattab	0%
71: German scientist who discovered electromagnetic waves	William C. Roentgen	0%
68: First Norman king of England	William I (The Conquerer)	0%
37: American dentist who developed modern anaesthetic	William T.G. Morton	0%