Statistics for TIME's Person of the Year

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General Stats

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The average score is 39 of 97

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
2016	Donald Trump	93%
1938	Adolf Hitler	90%
2008	Barack Obama	85%
2012	Barack Obama	85%
1962	Pope John XXIII	85%
1940	Winston Churchill	85%
1949	Winston Churchill	85%
1961	John F. Kennedy	83%
1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt	80%
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	80%
1934	Franklin D. Roosevelt	80%
1998	Bill Clinton	78%
1992	Bill Clinton	78%
1990	George H.W. Bush	78%
2000	George W. Bush	78%
2004	George W. Bush	78%
1980	Ronald Reagan	78%
2020	Joe Biden	76%
1942	Joseph Stalin	76%
1939	Joseph Stalin	76%
1971	Richard Nixon	76%
1944	Dwight D. Eisenhower	73%
1959	Dwight D. Eisenhower	73%
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	73%
1967	Lyndon B. Johnson	73%
1933	Hugh Johnson	71%
2007	Vladimir Putin	63%
1952	Elizabeth II	61%
1945	Harry S. Truman	56%
1948	Harry S. Truman	56%
2021	Elon Musk	54%
1976	Jimmy Carter	54%
1996	David Ho	51%
2013	Pope Francis	51%
1963	Martin Luther King	49%
1930	Mathatma Gandhi	49%
2015	Angela Merkel	44%
1987	Mikhail Gorbachev	44%
1989	Mikhail Gorbachev	44%
1993	Nelson Mandela	44%
1958	Charles De Gaulle	41%
2022	Volodymyr Zelenskyy	41%
1999-Person of the Century	Albert Einstein	39%
2019	Greta Thunberg	39%
2010	Mark Zuckerberg	39%
1994	Pope John Paul II	39%
2006	You	39%
1982	The Computer	37%
1957	Nikita Khrushchev	34%
1927	Charles Lindbergh	32%
1999-Person of the Year	Jeff Bezos	29%
1981	Lech Wałęsa	24%
1947	George Marshall	22%
1943	George Marshall	22%
1972	Henry Kissinger	22%
1937	Chiang Kai-Shek	20%
1985	Deng Xiaoping	20%
1978	Deng Xiaoping	20%
1935	Haile Selassie	20%
1953	Konrad Adenauer	20%
2001	Rudy Giuliani	20%
1950	The American Soldier	20%
2003	The American Soldier	20%
1970	Willy Brandt	20%
1983	Yuri Andropov	20%
1975	American Women	17%
1936	Wallis Simpson	17%
1928	Walter Chrysler	17%
1979	Ayatollah Khomeini	15%
1986	Corazon Aquino	15%
1954	John Foster Dulles	15%
1929	Owen D. Young	15%
2014	The Ebola Fighters	15%
1956	The Hungarian Freedom Fighter	15%
1969	The Middle Americans	15%
1965	William Westmoreland	15%
1960	American Scientists	12%
1997	Andrew Grove	12%
1977	Anwar Sadat	12%
1955	Harlow Curtice	12%
1973	John Sirica	12%
1951	Mohammad Mosaddegh	12%
1991	Ted Turner	12%
1988	The Endangered Earth	12%
1966	The Inheritor	12%
2011	The Protester	12%
2017	The Silence Breakers	12%
2009	Ben Bernanke	10%
1974	King Faisal	10%
1995	Newt Gingrich	10%
1984	Peter Ueberroth	10%
1931	Pierre Leval	10%
1968	The Apollo 8 Astronauts	10%
2018	The Guardians and the War on Truth	10%
2002	The Whistleblowers	10%
1946	James F. Brynes	7%
2005	The Good Samaritans	5%