Statistics for 100 Most Influential People of the 2nd Millennium (easier)

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Rank	Clue	Person	% Correct
16	Leader of Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler	93%
8	Physicist who developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	93%
79	Totalitarian Soviet dictator during World War II and the early Cold War	Joseph Stalin	93%
6	Explorer who established contact between Europe and the Americas, beginning the era of trans-Atlantic colonization and trade	Christopher Columbus	92%
21	Military leader in the American Revolution; first president of the United States	George Washington	92%
11	Renaissance polymath, painter of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, inventor who designed many mechanical devices	Leonardo da Vinci	92%
5	English Renaissance playwright and poet, known for plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	92%
4	Naturalist who introduced the theories of evolution and natural selection	Charles Darwin	91%
23	President of the US during the American Civil War, instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the US	Abraham Lincoln	90%
17	Leader of the nonviolent revolution that led to India’s independence	Mahatma Gandhi	90%
3	Church leader who started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	90%
35	Communist leader of the Russian Revolution, first chairman of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	90%
60	US President during the Great Depression and World War II, known for liberal social policies	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	89%
2	Scientist and mathematician who developed calculus and foundational laws of motion and gravitation	Isaac Newton	89%
81	South African civil rights activist and president	Nelson Mandela	89%
52	Prime Minister of Britain during World War II and the early Cold War	Winston Churchill	89%
33	US civil rights leader known for activism through nonviolence and civil disobedience	Martin Luther King, Jr.	88%
76	The most influential band in the history of popular music	The Beatles	88%
95	Actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his silent films	Charlie Chaplin	87%
7	19th-century philosopher and sociologist, proponent of socialism and communism	Karl Marx	87%
43	Communist revolutionary leader, first chairman of the People’s Republic of China	Mao Zedong	87%
19	Renaissance artist known for sculptures such as David and the Pietà and paintings in the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	87%
27	19th-century French emperor and highly successful military leader	Napoleon Bonaparte	87%
41	Software developer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft	Bill Gates	86%
57	Singer known as “The King of Rock and Roll”	Elvis Presley	86%
29	Entrepreneur who was the first to mass-produce automobiles	Henry Ford	86%
30	Classical composer whose dramatic music was pivotal in the the transition to the Romantic Era	Ludwig van Beethoven	85%
85	President of the US in the 1980s, icon of conservatism	Ronald Reagan	85%
91	Filmmaker of Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List	Steven Spielberg	85%
26	Prodigious composer whose work is often considered the best of the Classical Era	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	85%
93	First lady of the US, diplomat and civil rights activist, first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights	Eleanor Roosevelt	84%
10	Renaissance scientist who developed foundational laws of physics, discovered Jupiter’s moons, proponent of heliocentrism	Galileo Galilei	84%
22	Conqueror who ruled the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history	Genghis Khan	84%
12	Psychologist who founded psychoanalysis, a clinical method for psychological treatment through dialogue with a patient	Sigmund Freud	84%
14	Inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	84%
58	French folk heroine and martyr during the Hundred Years’ War	Joan of Arc	82%
15	Political leader and early president of the US, principal writer of the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	82%
44	Inventor of the first practical telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	81%
54	European explorer who published his account of his travels along the Silk Road and throughout Asia	Marco Polo	79%
80	Monarch who led England during a golden age in the 16th century	Elizabeth I	78%
1	Inventor who developed processes to mass-produce books using a movable-type printing press	Johann Gutenberg	78%
64	Painter who pioneered Cubism, an art movement in which subjects are portrayed from multiple angles at once	Pablo Picasso	78%
68	Political leader in the early United States, inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal glasses	Benjamin Franklin	77%
53	Physicist who pioneered the study of radioactivity	Marie Curie	77%
49	Soviet leader who instituted social reforms and played a pivotal role in bringing the Cold War to and end	Mikhail Gorbachev	76%
98	Jazz trumpeter and singer, civil rights activist	Louis Armstrong	75%
40	Inventors of the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft	Wright Brothers	75%
28	Baroque composer often considered the greatest composer of all time	Johann Sebastian Bach	74%
62	Filmmaker and entrepreneur, pioneer of animation	Walt Disney	74%
45	Duke of Normandy who conquered England	William the Conqueror	72%
73	Human rights activist, extremely popular member of the British royal family	Diana, Princess of Wales	71%
72	Military leader who led several South American countries to independence	Simón Bolívar	71%
39	Medieval poet who wrote the Divine Comedy, proponent of vernacular poetry	Dante Alighieri	69%
92	Founder of the profession of nursing	Florence Nightingale	69%
55	Explorer whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the earth	Ferdinand Magellan	67%
9	Renaissance polymath who developed the heliocentric model, in which the earth orbits the sun, and the quantity theory of money	Nicolaus Copernicus	65%
83	Tsar who developed the Russian Empire into a major European power	Peter the Great	63%
20	Enlightenment philosopher known as the father of economics, laid the foundations of free market economic theory	Adam Smith	60%
88	Physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb	J. Robert Oppenheimer	59%
99	Explorer who established the first sea link between Europe and Asia	Vasco da Gama	59%
36	Physician and biologist who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic	Alexander Fleming	56%
63	18th-century author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	56%
78	Monarch of Castile who supported Columbus’s voyages and ended Muslim rule in Iberia	Isabella I	55%
84	Inventor of radio	Guglielmo Marconi	53%
86	Modernist author of Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake	James Joyce	53%
71	US civil rights activist and conductor on the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman	51%
46	Renaissance philosopher whose political theories excuse acts of evil for political ends	Niccolò Machiavelli	50%
37	Enlightenment philosopher known for his wit, criticism of the church, and advocacy for freedom of speech and religion	Voltaire	50%
32	17th-century rationalist philosopher known for methodological skepticism, mathematician who invented coordinate geometry	Rene Descartes	46%
42	Biologist who established the rules of heredity, consider the father of modern genetics	Gregor Mendel	45%
25	Inventor of the steam engine which was fundamental to the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	44%
13	Scientist known as the father of microbiology, proved germ theory correct, developed processes to prevent the growth of bacteria	Louis Pasteur	43%
		Francis Crick	41%
94	Moniker referring to the unknown first person to have AIDS	Patient Zero	41%
31	Biologists who discovered the structure of DNA	James Watson	40%
97	Biologist who developed the first effective polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	40%
18	17th-century philosopher known as the father of liberalism, known for writings on the natural rights of people	John Locke	38%
51	Physician who developed the first vaccine, for smallpox	Edward Jenner	37%
34	Enlightenment philosopher whose writings on self-determinism and republicanism spurred the French Revolution	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	37%
59	Enlightenment philosopher whose writings deal with the limitations of human knowledge	Immanuel Kant	36%
89	Activist for women’s suffrage in the US. The constitutional amendment that granted this was nicknamed after her.	Susan B. Anthony	36%
100	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during its apex in the 16th century	Suleiman I	35%
82	Physicist who pioneered theories of atomic structure and quantum mechanics	Niels Bohr	34%
65	Physicist who did pioneering work in quantum mechanics, known for the uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	32%
38	Renaissance philosopher who dealt with logic and deduction, credited with developing the scientific method	Francis Bacon	28%
74	Physicist who created the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	26%
24	Medieval philosopher who sought to reconcile Catholic Church doctrines with classical philosophy	Thomas Aquinas	26%
90	Inventor of the daguerreotype, the first widely used process of photography	Louis Daguerre	25%
61	Physicist who developed theories of electromagnetism and invented the electric generator	Michael Faraday	25%
77	17th-century philosopher known for socio-political theories such as the social contract	Thomas Hobbes	25%
47	19th-century inventor who designed the first programmable computer (which was mechanical, not electronic)	Charles Babbage	23%
50	Sex educator and activist for birth control in the US	Margaret Sanger	21%
87	Biologist whose book Silent Spring brought environmentalism into the mainstream	Rachel Carson	21%
66	Pioneering filmmaker of The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	16%
56	Activist for women’s suffrage in the US, writer of the Declaration of Sentiments	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	16%
96	Operatic singer, one of the first international recording stars	Enrico Caruso	15%
48	Enlightenment feminist philosopher and activist for women’s rights in Britain	Mary Wollstonecraft	15%
69	Physician who first described the circulatory system in detail	William Harvey	10%
70	European church leader who established the independence of the church from secular authority	Pope Gregory VII	8%
75	Biologist who co-invented the birth control pill	Gregory Pincus	6%
67	Inventor who pioneered television technology	Vladimir Zworykin	4%