Statistics for Famous People from the 11th Century AD

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Viking, who discovered America (Vinland)	Leif Erikson	91%
Duke of Normandy, who won the Battle of Hasting and thus conquered England	William the Conqueror	84%
King of the Scots and protagonist of a Shakespear play	Macbeth	70%
Pope, who initiated the First Crusade	Urban II	66%
Ruler of the North Sea Empire in Scandinavia and Great Britain	Cnut the Great	45%
Wessex king of England, his dead caused the Norman Invasion of England	Edward the Confessor	45%
First christian King of Hungary	Stephen I	39%
Excommunicated Emperor, who had to walk to Canossa to atone to the Pope	Henry IV	36%
Pope, who reformed the Church, sparked the Investiture Controversy and excommunicated the HRE Emperor	Gregory VII	34%
King of Norway, who also was Mercenary in Russia and Byzantium, claimed the Danish and English Throne	Harald Hardrada	34%
Crusade preacher, who lead the Peoples Crusade and slaughtered Jews	Peter the Hermit	25%
"Father of Scholastics", who developed the ontological proof of God	Anselm of Canterbury	16%
Seljuq Sultan, who defeated Byzantium at the Battle of Manzikert and invaded Anatolia	Alp Arslan	11%
"Wise" King of the Rus, Son of Wladimir the Great, who developed the first legal code of the Rus and brought the State to its peak	Yaroslav the Wise	11%
Emperor of Byzantium, who conquered Bulgaria	Basil II	9%
First King of the Seljuqs, who conquered Persia and Iraq	Tughril	0%