Statistics for Famous People from the 15th Century AD

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"The Maid of Orléans", who lifted the english siege of Orleans and was burned as a heretic by the English	Joan of Arc	98%
Explorer from Genoa, who discovered America for Spain	Christopher Columbus	92%
Queen of Castille, who married the King of Aragon and finished the Reconquista	Isabella I of Castile	91%
Inventor of the printing press with movable letters	Johannes Gutenberg	89%
Italian Polymath, who painted the Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci	87%
Ruler of Walachia, who fought the Ottomans and is known as an inspiration for a Bram Stoker novel	Vlad the Impaler	83%
Banker in Florence, who patronaged Arts and was the first member of his family to gain de facto control of Florence	Cosimo de' Medici	81%
King of Aragon, who married the Queen of Castille and finished the Reconquista	Ferdinand II of Aragon	81%
Italian explorer, who explored South America, the continent was named after him	Amerigo Vespucci	75%
Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama	75%
Grand Prince of Moscow, who united Russia, defeated the Golden Horde and made Moscow the "Third Rome"	Ivan III	58%
Admiral of the Treasure Fleet, which traveled from China to South East Asia and the Indian Ocean	Zheng He	36%
Early reformator in Bohemia, his execution caused a series of religious wars	Jan Hus	34%
Portuguese general, who conquered trading posts like Goa, Hormuz and Malakka, a city in New Mexico is named after him	Afonso de Albuquerque	30%
Ottoman Sultan, who conquered Constantinopel	Mehmed II.	30%
Rich merchant and banker from Augsburg, who financed the HRE Emperors	Jakob Fugger	25%
Albanian general, who fought for and against the Ottomans and is admired as a national hero of Albania	Skanderbeg	17%
3. Emperor of the Ming dynasty, who founded Beijing, build the Forbidden City and financed the Treasure Fleet	Yongle	9%
4. King of the Korean Joseon dynasty, who developed the Korean Writing System	Sejong the Great	8%
Ruler, who greatly expanded the Inca Empire and founded Machu Picchu	Pachacútec Yupanqui	0%