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#	Who They Are / What They Did	Person	% Correct
20	First Roman emperor	Augustus	100%
7	Conquered most of Asia	Genghis Khan	100%
1	Messiah of Christianity	Jesus Christ	100%
10	Father of Communism	Karl Marx	100%
94	Musical composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	100%
71	First post-apartheid President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	100%
26	Led the Communist revolution in Russia	V. I. Lenin	100%
14	Led the Communist revolution in China	Mao Zedong	91%
53	Broke England away from the Catholic church	Henry VIII	90%
48	Invented the airplane (two people)	Wright Brothers	89%
5	Rediscovered the New World	Christopher Columbus	88%
27	Helped Latin America achieve independence	Simón Bolívar	88%
16	Conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture	Alexander the Great	86%
25	Expanded the Frankish empire	Charlemagne	86%
60	Led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII	Franklin Roosevelt	86%
22	Discovered calculus and the theory of gravitation	Isaac Newton	86%
2	Founded Islam	Muhammad	86%
92	Playwright	William Shakespeare	86%
37	Discovered relativity	Albert Einstein	83%
34	Discovered evolution	Charles Darwin	83%
52	Made discoveries about radiation	Marie Curie	83%
46	Led the U.S. through the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	82%
12	Conquered most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	82%
6	Started WWII	Adolf Hitler	80%
59	Assembly line and automobile pioneer	Henry Ford	80%
23	Father of Western Philosophy	Plato	80%
40	Helped invent the lightbulb and much more	Thomas Edison	80%
87	Father of computer science	Alan Turing	75%
4	Founded Buddhism	Buddha	75%
43	Unified Spain (two people)	Ferdinand & Isabella	75%
98	Pop musician	John Lennon	75%
31	Conquered Gaul. Became dictator of Rome	Julius Caesar	75%
91	Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	75%
24	Leader of the American revolution	George Washington	71%
8	Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	71%
78	Discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	70%
35	Allowed Rome to become a Christian empire	Constantine	67%
73	Conquered the Aztecs	Hernán Cortés	67%
13	Won WWII, modernized the USSR, killed millions	Joseph Stalin	67%
9	Sparked the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	67%
17	Led India to independence from the UK	Mohandas Gandhi	67%
76	Unified Germany under Prussian leadership	Otto von Bismarck	67%
15	Unified China	Qin Shi Huang	67%
21	Conquered England	William the Conqueror	67%
44	Led the U.K. through WWII	Winston Churchill	67%
38	Attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought	Aristotle	63%
72	Conquered the Incas	Francisco Pizarro	63%
93	Important artist and "Renaissance" man	Leonardo da Vinci	63%
88	Most prominent figure in the American Civil Rights movement	Martin Luther King, Jr.	60%
3	Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	57%
50	Invented the smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	55%
39	Father of Economics	Adam Smith	50%
70	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	50%
99	19th century novelist	Charles Dickens	50%
62	Discovered genetics	Gregor Mendel	50%
86	Emperor of Ethiopia, messiah of a minor religion	Haile Selassie	50%
95	Renaissance artist	Michelangelo	50%
96	Probably the most influential painter of the 20th century	Pablo Picasso	50%
69	Led Russia to become a great power	Catherine the Great	45%
11	Founded the Persian empire	Cyrus the Great	44%
33	Made huge breakthroughs in disease prevention	Louis Pasteur	40%
30	Started the Crusades	Pope Urban II	40%
19	Started Taoism	Laozi	38%
42	Greatly expanded the Russian empire	Peter the Great	38%
49	To Sunnis, the fourth caliph; to shiites, the first imam	Ali	33%
82	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	33%
32	Improved the steam engine	James Watt	33%
66	First President of Indonesia	Sukarno	33%
47	First to sail from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	33%
55	Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	29%
67	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	29%
57	Father of Geometry	Euclid	25%
63	Founded the Umayyad caliphate	Muawiyah I	25%
28	Converted the Gentiles to Christianity	St. Paul	25%
64	Conquered Persia and much of the Byzantine Empire	Umar	25%
75	Helped develop the Scientific Method	Francis Bacon	20%
65	Conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire	Mehmed the Conqueror	20%
36	Greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom	Ramesses II	20%
41	Conquered Central Asia in the late 1300s	Timur	20%
85	Founder of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	17%
45	Led England to a period of great discovery and prosperity	Queen Elizabeth I	17%
83	Prophet who founded Manichaeism, a now extinct religion	Mani	14%
58	Emperor who led China to a golden age during the Tang dynasty	Taizong of Tang	14%
29	Started a once-popular religion called Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	14%
80	Improved the microscope. Observed single-celled organisms	Antony van Leeuwenhoek	13%
77	Sometimes called the Father of Modern Science	Galileo Galilei	13%
90	Hero of Mexican independence	Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla	13%
100	20th century athlete	Pelé	9%
79	Father of Modern Chemistry	Antoine Lavoisier	0%
18	Expanded the Maurya Empire to most of the Indian subcontinent	Ashoka	0%
54	Invented birth control	Gregory Pincus	0%
84	Invented the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	0%
68	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	James Maxwell	0%
81	Promoted sterile surgery	Joseph Lister	0%
51	Preeminent mathematician of the 18th century	Leonhard Euler	0%
74	Founder of Jainism	Mahavira	0%
56	Potentially saved hundreds of millions by improving crop yields	Norman Borlaug	0%
61	Made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy in the 17th century	René Descartes	0%
89	Helped overthrow the Shogunate in Japan	Sakamoto Ryōma	0%
97	Arguably influenced pop culture more than anyone else	Walt Disney	0%