Statistics for Famous Iranian or Persian People

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Hint	Person	% Correct
Great king who established the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	83%
Leader of the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini	82%
Successor of the above who fought against the 300 Spartan soldiers	Xerxes the Great	79%
Spiritual leader who founded Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	79%
Great king who ruled the empire at its greatest extent	Darius the Great	77%
King the above overthrew during that revolution	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	58%
Former president and the current supreme leader of Iran	Ali Khamenei	48%
The controversial predecessor of the above	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	42%
President who signed the nuclear deal	Hassan Rouhani	39%
Best-selling poet in the United States	Rumi	38%
Western name of the Islamic Golden age polymath, Abu Ali Sina or Ibn Sina	Avicenna	32%
Democratically elected prime minister who was overthrown by the CIA in 1953	Mohammad Mosaddegh	32%
Author of the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, "Shahnameh"	Ferdowsi	31%
Founder of the Achaemenid dynasty	Achaemenes	20%
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith	Bahá'u'lláh	19%
Author of "Layla and Majnun"	Nizami Ganjavi	17%
"House of Sand and Fog" and "The Expanse" actress	Shohreh Aghdashloo	8%
Controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view	Forough Farrokhzad	6%