Statistics for Figures From the 18th Century

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Hint	Person	% Correct
French king who was beheaded	Louis XVI	93%
Musical genius of Salzburg and Vienna	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	92%
Wife of the above, famously misquoted as saying "Let them eat cake"	Marie Antoinette	87%
Writer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	86%
Mad king who lost Britain's American colonies	George III	80%
Considered Russia's greatest female leader	Catherine the Great	79%
British explorer who "discovered" Hawaii and was killed there	Captain Cook	76%
Almanac maker and bifocals inventor	Benjamin Franklin	64%
Author of "The Wealth of Nations"	Adam Smith	52%
"Incorruptible" French revolutionary with an affinity for the guillotine	Maximilien de Robespierre	44%
Author of "Robinson Crusoe"	Daniel Defoe	43%
Political theorist who wrote "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man"	Thomas Paine	43%
The national poet of Scotland	Robert Burns	42%
King who made Prussia a great power	Frederick the Great	36%
Greatly improved the steam engine	James Watt	36%
Wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Faust"	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	29%
Genevan philosopher who wrote about "The Social Contract"	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	26%
Invented the smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	23%
Writer of the pre-eminent English dictionary (at the time)	Samuel Johnson	21%
Britain's first prime minister (de facto)	Robert Walpole	17%

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