Statistics for People in History by Wikipedia Descriptions #1

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Excerpt	Person	% Correct
He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government	Abraham Lincoln	97%
He is referred to by many appellations including Messenger of Allah	Muhammad	89%
Ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976	Mao Zedong	86%
A Hindu nationalist assassinated him on 30 January 1948	Mahatma Gandhi	84%
The phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	84%
His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid	Nelson Mandela	83%
He returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution	Vladimir Lenin	76%
a² + b² = c²	Pythagoras	75%
On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India	Queen Victoria	75%
His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist	Charles Darwin	66%
The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the Siege of Orléans	Joan of Arc	66%
Was born Gaius Octavius Thurinus into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian gens Octavia	Augustus	61%
He founded some twenty cities that bore his name	Alexander the Great	59%
His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde, a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world	Marco Polo	56%
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"	Winston Churchill	55%
The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on lists of the greatest films of all time	Charlie Chaplin	50%
Shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804	Aaron Burr	47%
He and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary	46%
Plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security	Jane Austen	36%
His reported overhauling of the railway network led to the popular saying, "Say what you like about him, he made the trains run on time"	Benito Mussolini	30%
The Terror ended with his arrest on 9 Thermidor and his execution on the day after	Maximilien Robespierre	30%

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