Statistics for Celebrity Deaths 1500-1599

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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
Painter of the Mona Lisa	1519	Leonardo da Vinci	95%
The explorer who opened the door to the Americas	1506	Christopher Columbus	91%
The beheaded wife of Henry VIII	1536	Anne Boleyn	89%
Portugese explorer who opened up sea route to India	1524	Vasco da Gama	82%
Explorer who first circumnavigated the Earth	1521	Ferdinand Magellan	80%
Master sculptor of The David	1564	Michelangelo	80%
The explorer after whom the Americas are named	1512	Amerigo Vespucci	79%
German monk who started Protestant Reformation	1546	Martin Luther	79%
The English mariner who circumnavigated the globe	1596	Francis Drake	71%
The Spaniard who took Mexico from the Aztecs	1547	Hernan Cortes	71%
French physician who made creepy predictions	1566	Nostradamus	68%
The first czar of Russia from 1547 to 1584	1584	Ivan the Terrible	66%
Italian diplomat best known for his political treatise The Prince	1526	Niccolo Machiavelli	63%
Astronomer who said that the sun is the center of our solar system	1543	Nicolas Copernicus	63%
The 3rd wife of King Henry VIII	1536	Queen Jane Seymour	63%
The pope who changed the calendar in 1582	1585	Pope Gregory XIII	61%
First wife of Henry VIII	1536	Catherine of Aragon	59%
The leader of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest	1520	Montezuma II	57%
King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516	1516	Ferdinand of Aragon	54%
The Spaniard who conquered the Incas	1541	Francisco Pizarro	54%
High Renaissance painter of The School of Athens	1520	Raphael	54%
Queen of Castile from 1474 until she died in 1504	1504	Queen Isabella of Castille	50%
The author of Utopia	1535	Thomas More	50%
The Flemish map maker whose 1569 map we all recognize	1594	Gerardus Mercator	39%
The Flemish painter who did 'Garden of Earthly Delights'	1516	Hieronymus Bosch	39%
Germany's great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker	1528	Albrecht Dürer	32%
The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly	1526	Erasmus	30%
Longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	1566	Suleiman the Magnificent	29%
Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope	1500	Bartolomeu Dias	25%
Renaissance Venetian master who painted Venus of Urbino	1576	Titian	20%