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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	99%
British prime minister during WWII	Winston Churchill	99%
First president of the United States	George Washington	94%
Roman general and statesman killed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	93%
Founder of Islam	Muhammad	93%
Mongolian ruler of the largest contiguous empire in history	Genghis Khan	92%
Car manufacturer who developed industrial mass production	Henry Ford	92%
Formulated the first physical laws of gravity and motion	Isaac Newton	92%
American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis	John F. Kennedy	92%
Deaf German composer of "Für Elise" and "Moonlight Sonata"	Ludwig van Beethoven	92%
Gave "I Have A Dream" speech.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	92%
Virgin mother of Jesus in Christianity	Mary	92%
First man to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	92%
Austrian founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	92%
Italian dictator and leader of the National Fascist Party	Benito Mussolini	90%
Virgin Queen of England	Elizabeth I	90%
Peace activist and founding member of "The Beatles"	John Lennon	90%
Author of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	89%
Renaissance inventor, polymath, and painter of the "Mona Lisa"	Leonardo da Vinci	89%
Brought independece to India through non-violent resisitance	Mahatma Gandhi	89%
South African political leader who fought against Apartheid	Nelson Mandela	89%
Marxist revolutionary and guerilla fighter of Latin America	Che Guevara	87%
Created the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	86%
Last pharoh of Ptolemaic Egypt	Cleopatra	86%
Discoverer of Jupiter's moons	Galileo Galilei	86%
Catholic nun and Saint of Calcutta	Mother Teresa	86%
Sculptor of "David"	Michelangelo	85%
Spanish co-founder of modern cubism	Pablo Picasso	85%
Greek conquerer of Persia	Alexander the Great	83%
First Emperor of the Franks	Charlemagne	83%
French heroine of the 100 Years War	Joan of Arc	83%
Said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned	Nero	83%
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of "Starry Night"	Vincent van Gogh	83%
First communist leader of Cuba	Fidel Castro	82%
Japanese emperor during WWII	Hirohito	82%
Author of "The Lord of the Rings"	J.R.R. Tolkien	82%
First aviatrix to fly across the Atlantic	Amelia Earhart	80%
English author of "Frankenstein"	Mary Shelley	80%
Serbian-born inventor and futurist responsible for AC electricity	Nikola Tesla	80%
British explorer of the Pacific islands	James Cook	79%
German baroque composer of over 1000 compositions	Johann Sebastian Bach	79%
Last emperor of Russia	Nicholas II	79%
Liberator of South America	Simón Bolívar	79%
Greek moral philospher of thought	Socrates	79%
Restored ancient Egyptian religion before his death at 18-years-old	Tutankhamun	79%
With his brother Wilbur flew the first powered aircraft	Orville Wright	77%
Theoretical black hole physicist diagnosed with ALS	Stephen Hawking	77%
Allied Commander of D-Day	Dwight D. Eisenhower	75%
Ancient Chinese moral philospher	Confucius	73%
First Marxist leader of Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh	73%
Pioneered the research on radioactivity	Marie Curie	72%
Painter and founder of French Impressionist painting	Claude Monet	70%
French fashion designer who collaborated with Nazi Germany	Coco Chanel	69%
Russian composer of "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake"	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	69%
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	69%
Started the English Reformation after the Catholic Church forbid his divorce	Henry VIII	68%
Wallachian ruler and ruthless impaler	Vlad Dracula	68%
Spartan queen "whose face launched a thousand ships"	Helen of Troy	66%
French Revolutionary and architect of the Reign of Terror	Maximilien Robespierre	66%
Author of "Les Misérables"	Victor Hugo	66%
Mexican painter of self-portraits and surrealism	Frida Kahlo	65%
Conquistador responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	65%
Made the first circumnavigation of Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	63%
Venetian merchant and explorer of East Asia	Marco Polo	63%
British WWI officer renown for his role in the Arab Revolt	T.E. Lawrence	63%
First chancellor of Germany	Otto von Bismarck	62%
Spiritual teacher of mindfulness and the transcendence of pain	Gautama Buddha	59%
Former slave who helped others escape slavery with the "Underground Railroad"	Harriet Tubman	59%
Viking discoverer of Greenland	Erik the Red	58%
Father of English literature and author of the "Canterbury Tales"	Geoffery Chaucer	58%
Legendary Chinese folk heroine who took her father's place in the army	Hua Mulan	58%
Author of "The Prince" and the father of modern political science	Niccolò Machiavelli	58%
Introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system	Nicolaus Copernicus	58%
Emperor of Ethiopia and central figure of Rastafarianism	Haile Selassie	56%
Celtic queen who rose against the invading forces of Rome	Boudica	55%
Central prophet of Judaism	Moses	55%
French writer who advocated for separation of church and state	Voltaire	55%
Chinese military strategist who wrote "The Art of War"	Sun Tzu	48%
Wrote the "Tao te Ching"	Laozi	46%
Aztec ruler during the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica	Moctezuma II	45%
Modern anthropologist known for her study of chimpanzees	Jane Goodall	42%
Roman poet of the "Metamorphoses"	Ovid	42%
Zulu King who reorganized the military into a formidable force	Shaka Zulu	42%
Mali emperor known for lavish spending and generosity	Mansa Musa	41%
Sultan of the Ottoman golden age	Suleiman the Magnificent	39%
First true historian	Herodotus	38%
Founder of the Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	37%
First emperor of unified China	Qin Shi Huang	37%
American civil rights activist who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"	Maya Angelou	35%
Influential Japanese filmmaker of samurai movies	Akira Kurosawa	34%
Earliest human skeleton known to exist at 3.2 million years old.	Lucy	32%
Babylonian King responsible for the destruction of Solomon's Temple	Nebuchadnezzar II	32%
Ruled Egypt after the collapse of the Macedonian Empire	Ptolemy I Soter	30%
Sumerian king and subject of earliest known work of fiction	Gilgamesh	28%
English countess who developed the first computer algorithm	Ada Lovelace	27%
Founded the scientific method	Francis Bacon	27%
United the Gauls in a failed revolt against Julius Caesar's forces	Vercingetorix	27%
Film actress and co-inventor of FHSS radio guidance	Hedy Lamarr	23%
Greek philosopher of Cynicism who lived on the street in a ceramic jar	Diogenes	20%
Influential Byzantine empress to Justinian I	Theodora	20%
First king of Hawaii	Kamehameha	18%
First "Great Unifier" of Japan	Oda Nobunaga	18%
Founder of the Republic of China	Sun Yat-sen	18%
Inventor of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	17%
Founder of the ancient Maurya Empire	Chandragupta	15%
Three Kingdoms warlord who controlled the Chinese emperor	Cao Cao	13%
English scientist, polymath, and discoverer of microscopic life	Robert Hooke	13%
King of Joseon Dynasty and inventor of the Korean alphabet	Sejong the Great	13%
Shawnee chief who organized a Native American confederacy	Tecumseh	13%
First woman in space	Valentina Tereshkova	13%
Only empress in Chinese history	Wu Zetian	13%
Japanese author of the first novel	Murasaki Shikibu	11%
Blind leader of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade	Enrico Dandolo	10%
X-ray crystallographer central to the discovery of DNA's structure	Rosalind Franklin	10%
African queen of Ndongo and Matamba who fought against the Portugese	Nzingha Mbande	8%
Roman soldier who stabbed Jesus on the cross	Longinus	7%
First female sultan of India	Razia Sultana	7%
Admiral who defended Korea from Japanese invasion in 1598	Yi Sun-sin	6%
US Naval admiral, computer scientist, and inventor of the compiler	Grace Hopper	4%
Beloved Hellenistic teacher of astronomy, math, and philosophy	Hypatia	4%