Statistics for Famous Italian people

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Sistine Chapel ceiling painter	Michelangelo Buonarroti	91%
Major poet known for the Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	71%
Media tycoon and politician known for "bunga bunga" scandal	Silvio Berlusconi	71%
One of the Three Tenors with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras	Luciano Pavarotti	65%
Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943	Benito Mussolini	62%
"Discovered" America in 1492	Christopher Columbus	62%
Polymath of the Renaissance, exemplar of the "Universal Genius"	Leonardo da Vinci	62%
Venitian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in 1254	Marco Polo	62%
XVII century Italian astronomer	Galileo Galilei	56%
Motor racing entrepreneur, founder of an iconic automotive marque	Enzo Ferrari	50%
1993 Ballon d'Or football player	Roberto Baggio	47%
Actress known for "Two Women" or "Marriage Italian Style" films	Sophia Loren	44%
Educator known for the philosophy of education that bears her name	Maria Montessori	38%
Physicist pioneer of electricity and power	Alessandro Volta	35%
This great mathematician of antiquity was Sicilian	Archimedes of Syracuse	26%
Female singer, dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s	Mina Mazzini	24%
Astrophysicist, first Italian woman to administrate the Trieste Astronomical Observatory	Margherita Hack	21%
Nobel prize for Literature in 1926	Grazia Deledda	15%