Statistics for The 30 Greatest Greeks

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#	What they did / were	Greek	% Correct
1	He conquered Persia	Alexander the Great	96%
17	Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey	Homer	90%
5	First moral philosopher, died by drinking hemlock	Socrates	88%
6	"Father of Western Philosophy"	Aristotle	85%
21	a² + b² = c²	Pythagoras	85%
9	Founder of the Academy in Athens	Plato	81%
20	"Father of Medicine"	Hippocrates	73%
25	Second husband of Jackie Kennedy	Aristotle Onassis	71%
19	Spartan warrior king at the Battle of Thermopylae	Leonidas I	69%
24	Mathematician from Syracuse, Sicily	Archimedes	63%
27	Painter of the Spanish Renaissance (the name means "the Greek", in Spanish)	El Greco	62%
10	Statesman, orator and general of Athens	Pericles	46%
28	He died in the fall of Constantinople	Constantine XI	35%
7	Leader of the Greek national liberation movement, "Ethnarch"	Eleftherios Venizelos	29%
23	Greek American soprano, "La Divina"	Maria Callas	29%
11	Songwriter, Zorba's Dance	Mikis Theodorakis	29%
14	Three times Prime Minister in the 80s and 90s	Andreas Papandreou	25%
8	First president of independent Greece	Ioannis Kapodistrias	25%
4	Prime Minister and President in the latter half of the 20th century	Konstantinos Karamanlis	25%
3	Greek general who defeated the Ottomans in 1822	Theodoros Kolokotronis	25%
2	Physician who invented the "Pap smear" test	George Papanikolaou	21%
13	Actress and activist against the Greek junta	Melina Mercouri	21%
15	Writer of Zorba the Greek and translator of The Divine Comedy	Nikos Kazantzakis	19%
29	Nobel laureate, poet and diplomat	Giorgos Seferis	17%
26	Seven time Prime Minister, Rio-Antirrio bridge	Charilaos Trikoupis	15%
16	Major exponent of romantic modernism	Odysseus Elytis	15%
12	Mathematician, theory of functions of a real variable	Constantin Carathéodory	13%
22	Poet, journalist and civil servant	Constantine P. Cavafy	12%
18	Composer, "Éntekhno", Never on Sunday	Manos Hadjidakis	12%
30	Active in the modern Greek Enlightenment, pioneer of independence	Rigas Feraios	8%