Statistics for Famous Afghan People

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Clue	Person	% Correct
He became the President of Afghanistan after the Taliban was overthrown in 2001	Hamid Karzai	69%
Author of "The Kite Runner"	Khaled Hosseini	58%
This poet is born in 1207 in the city of Balkh and now, according to some, is the best-selling poet of all time in the United States	Rumi	39%
Founder of the Afghan Empire	Ahmad Shah Durrani	36%
He was the President right before the overtake of the Taliban in 2021	Ashraf Ghani	36%
Last shah of Afghanistan	Mohammed Zahir Shah	31%
He voiced Olaf from "Frozen"	Josh Gad	28%
Prime minister who overthrew the above and made Afghanistan into a republic	Mohammed Daoud Khan	25%
First wife of Alexander the Great	Roxana	25%
Her photograph by Steve McCurry was on a 1985 cover of National Geography	Sharbat Gula	17%
First Muslim beauty contestant to be crowned Miss England	Hammasa Kohistani	11%
Current supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Hibatullah Akhundzada	8%
Taekwondo practitioner who won the first Olympic medal for Afghanistan	Rohullah Nikpai	6%
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations between 2007–2009	Zalmay Khalilzad	6%
First Afghan in space	Abdul Ahad Momand	3%