Statistics for 35 Famous People from Greece

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Philosopher who contributed the theory of Forms known by pure reason	Plato	94%
Philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy	Socrates	82%
Legendary author of The Iliad and The Odessey	Homer	80%
King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, who created one of the largest empires of the ancient world	Alexander the Great	78%
Shipping magnate who was married to Jacqueline Kennedy	Aristotle Onassis	78%
Philosopher who discovered the theorem of relations among the three sides of a right triangle	Pythagoras	76%
Philosopher who defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known”	Aristotle	73%
Painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance	El Greco	65%
King of Sparta who led the allied Greek forces to the Battle of Thermopylae.	Leonidas	57%
Opera singer known for her passionate love affair with famous shipping magnate	Maria Callas	57%
Legendary fabulist who was the reputed creator of numerous short tales about animals, all illustrating human virtues and failings	Aesop	55%
Mathematician whose achievements is deriving an accurate approximation of number pi	Archimedes	53%
Physician of the Classical Greece and an outstanding figure in the history of medicine	Hippocrates	45%
Politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens	Pericles	45%
Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War	Spartacus	45%
Ancient Greek tragedian and author of Antigone, Ajax and Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	43%
Basketball player and two-time Most Valuable Player in the NBA	Giannis Antetokounmpo	39%
Highest-ranked Greek tennis player in history	Stefanos Tsitsipas	39%
Composer of music for movies Chariots of Fire and 1492: Conquest of Paradise	Vangelis	25%
Oscar nominated actress and the first female Minister of Culture and Sports	Melina Mercouri	22%
Singer who came to fame with her song ‘’The White Rose of Athens” in 1969	Nana Mouskouri	22%
Female tennis player who has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in 2022 by WTA	Maria Sakkari	20%
Songwriter who composed the song for the film Zorba the Greek	Mikis Theodorakis	20%
Greek-French film director who won an Oscar for the movie Z	Costa Gavras	18%
Singer who had international hit records as a solo performer in the 1970s	Demis Roussos	18%
Singer whose single "Shake It" is the all-time bestselling single in Greece	Sakis Rouvas	16%
Prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1996	Andreas Papandreou	14%
Greek historian, widely referred to as “The Father of History”	Herodotos	14%
Actress known for her parts in the ancient Greek comedies and tragedies	Irene Papas	14%
Author whose famous works are Zorba the Greek and Christ Recrucified	Nikos Kazantzakis	14%
Basketball player, widely regarded as one of Europe's greatest scorers	Nikos Galis	10%
Captain of national football team who won UEFA EURO 2004	Theodoros Zagorakis	10%
Shipping tycoon, who had the world’s biggest super tankers built for his fleet	Stavros Niarchos	8%
Only person to win the EuroBasket, both as a player (1987), and as a coach (2005)	Panagiotis Giannakis	6%
Bouzouki player and one of the founders of modern Rebetiko and Laiko music	Vassilis Tsitsanis	4%