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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Student of Plato and founder of Lyceum	Aristotle	96%
P	Ancient Greek wrestler and student of Socrates	Plato	85%
N	Whiskered Übermensch	Friedrich Nietzsche	79%
M	"A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."	Karl Marx	77%
S	"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."	Socrates	73%
V	French Enlightenment writer, famous for his advocacy of freedom of speech and religion	Voltaire	73%
G	Early modern natural philosopher and astronomer arrested for heresy.	Galileo Galilei	69%
K	"The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me".	Immanuel Kant	60%
E	Ancient Greek votary of "Hakuna Matata" lifestyle	Epicurus	45%
C	Contemporary American linguist, social critic, and political activist	Noam Chomsky	45%
B	English jurist regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism	Jeremy Bentham	43%
Z	Contemporary Slovenian marxist and Kung-Fu Panda enjoyer	Slavoj Žižek	39%
D	Pre-Socratic philosopher remembered his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe	Democritus	36%
W	"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."	Ludwig Wittgenstein	32%
F	When you think about it, everything is a prison.	Michel Foucault	32%
U	Marxist theorist and practitioner, better known as Lenin	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov	31%
R	British logician and mathematician praising idleness	Bertrand Russell	28%
H	"The owl of Minerva first begins her flight with the onset of dusk."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	26%
X	Student of Socrates, more renowned for his military and historical career	Xenophon	26%
Q	American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition	Willard Van Orman Quine	17%
L	Ancient Roman epicurean and author of "De rerum natura"	Lucretius	15%
I	Persian commentator on Aristotle and the father of early modern medicine	Ibn Sina	14%
J	Sceptical medieval English bishop, who first coined the term "theatrum mundi"	John of Salisbury	14%
O	"It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer."	Wiliam Ockham	14%
Y	Prominent Korean confucian scholar of 16th century	Yi I	12%
T	The most reknown representative of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic	Alfred Tarski	6%