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Random Historical Figures #6

Name these 15 random historical figures based on their brief descriptions.
These figures may potentially be fictional or unknown.
Quiz by rbezar
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Last updated: May 5, 2020
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Famous refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus
Rosa Parks
Led the 1381 Peasant's Revolt in England
Wat Tyler
Blonde bombshell who has become an iconic sex symbol
Marilyn Monroe
First female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
First to calculate Earth's circumference, founded geography
Eratosthenes
Czech reformer who inspired Hussitism and predated Luther
Jan Hus
Initiated the Crusades
Pope Urban II
Female Mexican painter known for her many self-portraits
Frida Kahlo
Father of Liberalism, very influential in the Enlightenment
John Locke
Washington Post head who published the Pentagon Papers
Katharine Graham
Known for calculating the wave function and his cat
Erwin Schrödinger
Wrote the dystopian novel 1984, inspired many neologisms
George Orwell
Wrote Leviathan, which contributed to the social contract theory
Thomas Hobbes
Sewed the first American flag
Betsy Ross
Fueled the rebellion of the American colonies by writing Common Sense
Thomas Paine
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