Statistics for 20 Famous People from Finland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Formula One World Champion in 2007	Kimi Räikkönen	88%
Composer whose famous work is Finlandia	Jean Sibelius	71%
Formula One World Champion in 1998 and 1999	Mika Häkkinen	69%
Basketball player who played for Chicago, Cleveland and Utah	Lauri Markkanen	66%
Longest-serving President of Finland who served from 1956 to 1982	Urho Kekkonen	60%
Politician who was the first woman to hold the position	Tarja Halonen	58%
Commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during World War II	Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	57%
Widely considered to be Finland's greatest football player of all time	Jari Litmanen	56%
Formula One driver who drove for Williams, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo	Valtteri Bottas	56%
Politician, President of Finland, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a UN diplomat	Martti Ahtisaari	55%
Architect and designer whose work includes furniture, textiles and glassware	Alvar Aalto	52%
Middle-distance and long-distance runner who was called the "Flying Finn"	Paavo Nurmi	51%
Nicknamed "the Finnish Flash", the highest scoring Finn in NHL history	Teemu Selänne	47%
Widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time	Matti Nykänen	45%
Creator of Finnish as a written language and translator of the New Testament	Mikael Agricola	45%
Author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language Seven Brothers	Aleksis Kivi	44%
Software engineer who is the creator and the main developer of the Linux	Linus Torvalds	43%
Creator of The Kalevala, Finland's national epic	Elias Lönnrot	36%
Film director of the movies Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea	Renny Harlin	30%
Musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM	Ville Valo	29%