Statistics for Famous People who Died in Air Accidents

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Accident	Hint	Person	% Correct
1937	The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean	Amelia Earhart	94%
1959	The Day the Music Died	Buddy Holly	77%
1997	"Take Me Home, Country Roads"	John Denver	72%
2020	Lakers shooting guard	Kobe Bryant	72%
1999	Founded George magazine and was son of a president	John F. Kennedy, Jr.	67%
1959	The Day the Music Died	The Big Bopper	61%
1968	The first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Gagarin	59%
1967	Died before "Dock of the Bay" could be released	Otis Redding	57%
1959	The Day the Music Died	Ritchie Valens	57%
1963	One of the first country singers to succeed in pop ("Crazy")	Patsy Cline	38%
2001	Known as the "Queen of Urban Pop"	Aaliyah	36%
1944	Big-band trombonist and bandleader in the swing era	Glenn Miller	35%
1928	First through the Northwest Passage and South Pole	Roald Amundsen	34%
1973	American folk and rock singer-songwriter of "Time in a Bottle"	Jim Croce	28%
1990	3-named Texan blues guitarist of the band Double Trouble	Stevie Ray Vaughan	27%
1999	Golfer who won eleven PGA Tour events	Payne Stewart	17%
1969	Held the world heavyweight boxing title from 1952 to 1956	Rocky Marciano	17%
2015	Wrote acclaimed scores, like "Alien," ''Titanic," and "Avatar"	James Horner	13%