Statistics for Influential People Quiz (600 AD-1600 AD)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
English playwright behind Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and many others	William Shakespeare	99%
Starting from the steppes of Mongolia, he took over most of Asia	Genghis Khan	95%
Renaissance sculptor behind the statue David	Michelangelo	93%
Sought to reform the church causing the reformation	Martin Luther	92%
Italian explorer who tried and failed to find a new route to Asia for spices	Christopher Columbus	87%
Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	87%
Italian explorer who made it to China across the silk roads	Marco Polo	86%
Prototypical Renaissance man	Leonardo DaVinci	85%
Queen who united Spain with her marriage to King Ferdinand	Queen Isabella	85%
Burned hundreds of dissenters at the stake in an attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which was started by her father Henry VIII	Queen Mary	75%
The first Holy Roman Emperor	Charlemagne	66%
The father of political science who wrote The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	63%
Conquistador who took over the Incan Empire	Francisco Pizarro	62%
Pope who ordered the first crusade to take back the Holy Lands	Pope Urban II	54%
Sultan who united much of the Middle East and successfully repelled the Third Crusade	Saladin	52%
Created laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	37%
Chinese naval commander and explorer who made 7 journeys through much of the Indian Ocean	Zheng He	36%
Moroccan explorer and scholar	Ibn Battuta	23%
Empress of China during the Tang Dynasty, one of the most effective rulers in Chinese history	Empress Wu Zetian	19%