Statistics for 100 Important Europeans by Written Works

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Year	Written Work	Historical Figure	% Correct
B.C. 700s	Iliad	Homer	98%
Early 14th Century	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	95%
1867	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	91%
1925	Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	89%
B.C. 360	The Republic	Plato	89%
1859	On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	87%
1869	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	87%
1937	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	84%
1934	Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	83%
1813	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	83%
1945	Animal Farm	George Orwell	81%
1831	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	81%
1609	Sonnets	William Shakespeare	81%
1922	Ulysses	James Joyce	80%
1517	95 Theses	Martin Luther	80%
1759	Candide	Voltaire	80%
1844	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	76%
B.C. 335	Poetics	Aristotle	76%
1847	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	75%
1864	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne	75%
1513	The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	75%
1776	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	74%
1890	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	74%
1915	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	73%
1615	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	72%
1902	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	71%
1950	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	71%
1818	Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus	Mary Shelley	71%
Late 14th Century	Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	70%
1781	Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	70%
1854	Hard Times	Charles Dickens	69%
1719	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	68%
1865	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	68%
1894	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	68%
1880	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	67%
1899	The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud	67%
1726	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	66%
1897	Dracula	Bram Stoker	64%
1885	Thus Spake Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	63%
1856	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	63%
1843	The Ugly Duckling	Hans Christian Andersen	62%
1953	Casino Royale	Ian Fleming	62%
1667	Paradise Lost	John Milton	60%
1516	Utopia	Thomas More	60%
1651	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	59%
1762	The Social Contract	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	58%
1774	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	58%
1689	Two Treatises of Government	John Locke	58%
1687	Principia	Isaac Newton	56%
A.D. 398	Confessions	St. Augustine	56%
1886	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	55%
1274	Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	55%
1954	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	53%
1637	Discourse on Method	René Descartes	52%
1957	Dr. Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	51%
1898	J'accuse	Émile Zola	49%
1820	Ivanhoe	Walter Scott	49%
1845	The Condition of the Working Class in England	Friedrich Engels	46%
1929	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	45%
1353	The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	44%
1874	Middlemarch	George Eliot	43%
B.C. 300	Elements	Euclid	42%
1543	On the Revolutions ofthe Heavenly Spheres	Nicolaus Copernicus	42%
1509	In Praise of Folly	Erasmus	40%
1620	Novum Organum	Francis Bacon	38%
1798	An Essay on the Principle of Population	Thomas Malthus	36%
1854	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred Tennyson	34%
1536	Institutes of the Christian Religion	John Calvin	32%
1755	A Dictionary of the English Language	Samuel Johnson	32%
1748	The Spirit of Laws	Montesquieu	31%
1962	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	30%
1859	On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	29%
1835	Democracy in America	Alexis de Tocqueville	28%
1628	On the Motion of the Heart and Blood	William Harvey	28%
1905	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	Max Weber	25%
1669	Pensées	Blaise Pascal	24%
1789	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon	24%
1792	A Vindication of the Rights of Women	Mary Wollstonecraft	24%
1524	Spiritual Exercises	Ignatius Loyola	22%
1790	Reflections on the Revolution in France	Edmund Burke	21%
1895	The Jewish State	Theodor Herzl	21%
2nd Century	Almagest	Claudius Ptolemy	18%
1521	Defense of the Seven Sacraments	Henry VIII	18%
1598	The True Law of Free Monarchies	James I	18%
1840	What Is Property?	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	16%
1850	The Prelude	William Wordsworth	15%
1789	What is the Third Estate?	Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès	13%
1832	Indiana	George Sand	11%
1625	On the Law of War and Peace	Hugo Grotius	11%
1918	The Decline of the West	Oswald Spengler	10%
1576	Six Books of the Commonwealth	Jean Bodin	9%
1418	The Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	9%
1709	Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the Holy Scripture	Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet	8%
1405	City of Ladies	Christine de Pisan	6%
1839	Organization of Work	Louis Blanc	6%
1543	On the Fabric of the Human Body	Andreas Vesalius	5%
1764	On Crimes and Punishments	Cesare Beccaria	5%
1908	Reflections on Violence	Georges Sorel	5%
1486	Oration on the Dignity of Man	Pico della Mirandola	4%
1835	The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined	David Friedrich Strauss	3%