Statistics for 50 Famous People from Italy

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The first European to reach the Americas	Christopher Columbus	100%
Author of painting Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci	100%
Sculptor of the famous David statue	Michelangelo	93%
'Father of the Italian Language' and the author of Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	85%
Astronomer who improved the telescope and studied the Milky Way	Galileo Galilei	85%
General who played a critical role during the rise of the Roman Empire	Julius Caesar	85%
Media tycoon and Prime Minister of Italy in four governments	Silvio Berlusconi	85%
Politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party	Benito Mussolini	81%
One of the first European travelers along the famous Silk Road	Marco Polo	78%
Composer known for a series of violin concertos The Four Seasons	Antonio Vivaldi	74%
Painter of Sistine Madonna and Transfiguration	Raphael	74%
Explorer from whose name the term 'America' is derived	Amerigo Vespucci	67%
Named as the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema	Sofia Loren	67%
Fashion designer who was shot and killed in Miami	Gianni Versace	63%
De facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during Renaissance	Lorenzo de' Medici	63%
Composer of operas La Traviata, Rigoletto and Nabucco	Giuseppe Verdi	59%
One of the most acclaimed and loved tenors of all times	Luciano Pavarotti	59%
Often called the father of modern political philosophy and political science	Niccolo Machiavelli	59%
Author of Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata	Donatello	52%
Founder of the Scuderia Grand Prix team	Enzo Ferrari	52%
Fashion house founder in 1975 with its headquarters in Milan	Giorgio Armani	44%
Artist commissioned on the artworks in the Sistine Chapel	Sandro Botticelli	44%
Creator of the Spaghetti Western genre	Sergio Leone	44%
Multiple MotoGP World Champion	Valentino Rossi	44%
Famous craftsman of string instruments	Antonio Stradivari	41%
Composer in most of Sergio Leone's and Giuseppe Tornatore's films	Ennio Morricone	41%
The composer of operas Madame Butterfly and Turandot	Giacomo Puccini	41%
Widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time	Gianluigi Buffon	41%
Author of novel The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	41%
Physicist and chemist who was credited as the inventor of the electric battery	Alessandro Volta	37%
Opera tenor who became completely blind at age 12	Andrea Bocelli	37%
Footballer who played an entire career as a left back for AC Milan	Paolo Maldini	33%
FIFA World Player of the Year in 1993	Roberto Baggio	33%
Director and star in the holocaust comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni	33%
Composer of The Barber of Seville	Gioacino Rossini	30%
Most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time	Niccolo Paganini	26%
Leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries	Caravaggio	22%
Creator of the children's novel Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	19%
Designer of the dome of the Florence Cathedral	Filippo Brunelleschi	19%
Centre-back who spent his entire 20-year career with AC Milan	Franco Baresi	19%
Author of The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	19%
FIFA's Best Referee of the Year six consecutive times	Pierluigi Collina	19%
Burned at the stake by the Inquisition because of his cosmological theories	Giordano Bruno	15%
Director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci	11%
Actor known for action-comedy and Spaghetti Western roles	Bud Spencer	11%
Singer who recorded a duet Cose Delle Vita with Tina Turner	Eros Ramazzotti	11%
Often credited of the founding of Renaissance humanism	Francesco Petrarch	11%
Played Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna	Monica Bellucci	11%
Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality	Giada de Laurentiis	7%
Designated as patron saint of Italy by Pope Gregory IX	Saint Francis of Assisi	7%