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Who was Older?

Pick the historical figure whose birthdate was chronologically earliest.
Some dates are approximate or controversial
According to Wikipedia
Quiz by WindsOfGauldron
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Last updated: May 27, 2021
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First submittedJune 6, 2020
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1. Who was older?
Jesus
Buddha
Confucius
Muhammed
2. Who was older?
Ludwig von Beethoven
George Washington
Lord Byron
Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Who was older?
Socrates
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Leonidas I
4. Who was older?
Donatello
Christopher Columbus
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
5. Who was older?
Anne Frank
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jimmy Carter
Barbara Walters
6. Who was older
Cleopatra
King David
Nebuchadnezzar II
Homer
7. Who was older
Søren Kierkegaard
Lewis Caroll
Adolf Hitler
Hans Christian Andersen
8. Who was older?
Henry Ford
Madame Tussaud
Walt Disney
Jack Daniel
9. Who was older?
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Davy Crockett
Wyatt Earp
10. Who was older?
Voltaire
Maximilien Robespierre
Louis XVI
Marquis de Lafayette
11. Who was older?
Elvis Presley
Betty White
Shirley Temple
Charlton Heston
12. Who was older?
Charlemagne
Joan of Arc
Sultan Saladin
Thomas Aquinas
13. Who was older?
Cyrus the Great
Julius Caesar
Qin Shi Huang
Ashoka
14. Who was older?
James Taylor
James Dean
James Brown
James Earl Jones
15. Who was older?
Winston Churchill
George Orwell
Alfred Hitchcock
C. S. Lewis
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Level 88
May 20, 2021
Dang, this was tough
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Level 70
May 27, 2021
Fantastic quiz! I think there's a typo in "John of Arc"
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Level 70
May 27, 2021
It correctly reads "Joan of Arc" for me.
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Level 82
May 27, 2021
cool quiz but some more time would be nice.
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Level 67
May 27, 2021
Great quiz, would love to see the actual years displayed afterwards!
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Level 78
May 27, 2021
It's Hans Christian AndersEn, not AndersOn.
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Level 85
May 28, 2021
4/15 I did horribly!
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Level 50
May 31, 2021
I don't understand how James Dean was the oldest in one of the groups. He died at 24. Otoh, James Taylor is in the same group and is in his 70s and is still alive.
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Level 60
May 1, 2022
Dean was born first.
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Level 60
May 1, 2022
Needs more time.
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Level 71
May 1, 2022
Probably could make the answers a little beat easier, but nice quiz. Also, the title of the quiz makes it sound as if there are only 2 options, a possible change could be "Who was the Oldest?"
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Level 76
May 2, 2022
really tricky but excellent nevertheless
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Level 56
Sep 1, 2022
I think this is probably my favourite quiz on Jetpunk, despite having done pretty abysmally! Excellent. The amount of time is right as far as I'm concerned - I think this kind of thing is more fun done partly on instinct than by trying to work each one out carefully and logically. Good sign too that there were some questions where I basically know nothing about any of the contestants (9 & 14, except Abraham Lincoln).
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Level 79
Sep 1, 2022
Wow that was hard, I only got 4
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Level 60
Sep 1, 2022
Hard! But Great! Only got 6.
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Level 52
Jul 19, 2023
Who IS older. Carter is still living.