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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Messiah of Christianity	Jesus Christ	100%
Founder of Islam, Seal of the Prophets	Muhammad	100%
Connected the Old and New Worlds	Christopher Columbus	96%
Instigated World War II in Europe and inspired mass decolonization efforts	Adolf Hitler	92%
Ancient Macedonian conqueror, key figure of Hellenization	Alexander the Great	92%
Initiated the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China	Mao Zedong	92%
Described relativity	Albert Einstein	88%
Founder of Buddhism	Buddha	88%
Described evolution	Charles Darwin	88%
Co-authors of The Communist Manifesto, authored and published Das Kapital (duo)	Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels	88%
Bolshevik revolutionary, first Soviet leader	Vladimir Lenin	88%
Led the U.S. through the Civil War, freed American slaves	Abraham Lincoln	85%
Astronomer, furthered the Scientific Revolution against major hostilities	Galileo Galilei	85%
Created the largest contiguous land empire; murdered millions and promoted trade	Genghis Khan	85%
American revolutionary, first U.S. president, and president of the Constitutional Convention	George Washington	85%
Described gravity, established classical mechanics, and developed calculus	Isaac Newton	85%
Led the USSR through World War II and the beginning of the Cold War	Joseph Stalin	85%
Captured Gaul, prepared the end of the Roman Republic	Julius Caesar	85%
Champion of nonviolence, highly important to India's independence	Mahatma Gandhi	85%
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	85%
Conquered and modernized most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	85%
First Roman Emperor	Augustus	81%
Western inventor of the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	81%
Athenian philosopher, founded the Academy	Plato	81%
Invented, built, and flew the world's first successful motor-operated airplane (duo)	Wilbur & Orville Wright	81%
Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	77%
Catholic monarchs who united Spain and sponsored #5 (duo)	Ferdinand II & Isabella	77%
Early contributor to germ theory, disproved spontaneous generation	Louis Pasteur	77%
Described radioactivity	Marie Curie	77%
Invented the practical lightbulb, popularized electricity as a utility	Thomas Edison	77%
Athenian philosopher, attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought	Aristotle	73%
Renaissance era advocate for heliocentrism	Nicolaus Copernicus	73%
Prussian unifier of Germany who led the Berlin Conference	Otto von Bismarck	73%
Founded psychoanalysis and helped popularize psychology	Sigmund Freud	73%
Expanded the Frankish Empire	Charlemagne	69%
Instrumental in the Christianization of the Roman Empire	Constantine	69%
Conquered the Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	69%
Sentenced #1 to death by crucifixion	Pontius Pilate	69%
Fought for South American independence	Simón Bolívar	69%
Drafted the Declaration of Independence, made the Louisiana Purchase	Thomas Jefferson	69%
Conquered England for the Normans	William the Conqueror	69%
Popularized the car, assembly line production, and the standardization of parts	Henry Ford	65%
Wrote more of the New Testament than any other person, converted the Gentiles	Saint Paul	65%
Discovered penicilin	Alexander Fleming	62%
Transformed Russia into a great European power	Peter the Great	62%
Initially uncredited contributor to the above event	Rosalind Franklin	62%
Likely the largest contributor to Western literary tradition	William Shakespeare	62%
Greek father of geometry	Euclid	58%
Influential computer scientist and wartime codebreaker	Alan Turing	54%
Focal point of the Shia-Sunni split	Ali	54%
Persian prophet, founded a religion that paved the way for the rise of monotheism	Zoroaster	54%
Father of economics	Adam Smith	50%
Conquered the Inca Empire	Francisco Pizarro	50%
Described the structure of DNA (duo)	Francis Crick & James Watson	50%
Founder of Taoism	Laozi	50%
First unifier of China	Qin Shi Huang	50%
Discovered a sea route to India	Vasco da Gama	50%
Significantly improved the steam engine, kicking off the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	46%
17th century philosopher and mathematician; wrote Meditations and created the Cartesian coordinate system	René Descartes	46%
Created the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	46%
Founded the Achaemenid Empire in Persia	Cyrus the Great	42%
Described the rules of genetic inheritance	Gregor Mendel	42%
Leading Enlightenment philosopher known for The Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	42%
Made key discoveries about electricity	Michael Faraday	42%
Designed the first practical automobile	Carl Benz	38%
Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, eventually leading to World War I	Gavrilo Princip	38%
Elizabethan Era philosopher who championed empiricism and the scientific method	Francis Bacon	35%
Father of immunology, pioneered innoculation	Edward Jenner	31%
Early pioneer of photography	Louis Daguerre	31%
Ended over 2000 years of monarchical rule in China	Sun Yat-sen	31%
Central Asian conqueror whose rule began a self-named Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries	Timur	31%
Established the modern study of chemistry, rejected phlogiston theory (duo)	Antoine & Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier	27%
Revolutionized microscpoing	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	27%
Spread Buddhism and united much of India under the Mauryan Empire	Ashoka	27%
Germanic philosopher who influenced Marxism, authoritarianism, and the totality of modern Western philosophy	G. W. F. Hegel	27%
Described electromagnetism, realized the second "great unification" of physics	James Clerk Maxwell	27%
Forerunner of epidemiology, identified cholera-contaminated water in Soho	John Snow	23%
Theoretical physicist who discovered quantum mechanics	Max Planck	23%
Ended the Tokugawa shogunate, transformed Japan into an industrialized world power	Meiji	23%
Neo-Babylonian builder king who subjected Jews to the Babylonian Captivity	Nebuchadnezzar II	23%
Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	15%
Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	15%
Promoted sterile surgery	Joseph Lister	15%
Father of the plastics industry	Leo Baekeland	15%
Ended the Byzantine Empire and claimed Constantinople for the Ottomans	Mehmed the Conqueror	15%
Potentially saved billions of lives by improving crop yields in the 20th century	Norman Borlaug	15%
Second Rashidun Caliph; expanded the caliphate and influenced the events of the Safiqa	Umar	15%
Significantly improved papermaking	Cai Lun	12%
Pioneered rail transport	George Stephenson	12%
Key figure in the Schism of 1054	Michael I Cerularius	12%
Expanded Ancient Egypt into Syria and Upper Nubia	Thutmose III	12%
Father of algebra, helped popularize Arabic numerals	al-Khwarizmi	8%
Abbasid caliph who championed learning, opened the Baghdad House of Wisdom to the public	al-Ma'mun	8%
Pioneered information theory, implemented Boolean logic in computer operations	Claude Shannon	8%
Founded the Dutch East India Company	Johan van Oldenbarnevelt	8%
Sui Dynasty emperor who reunified China, promoted Buddhism, and ordered the construction of the Grand Canal	Wen of Sui	8%
Established psychology as a discipline separate from philosophy and biology	Wilhelm Wundt	8%
Popularized the use of anesthesia	William T. G. Morton	8%
European who devised equal temperament tuning	Simon Stevins	4%
Major figure of the revival of Hinduism and Indian nationalism	Swami Vivekananda	4%