Statistics for 40 non-US, non-UK Historical People Everyone Should Know

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Soviet leader during World War II	Joseph Stalin	98%
Fascist Italian leader known as "Il Duce"	Benito Mussolini	92%
First black president of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	92%
Conqueror who founded the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	91%
Developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	84%
Painter of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	84%
Italian who discovered the moons of Jupiter and was silenced by the church	Galileo Galilei	82%
Disciple of Socrates who wrote "The Republic"	Plato	82%
Cuba's "Maximo Líder"	Fidel Castro	80%
Albanian nun known for her charitable work in Calcutta	Mother Teresa	80%
Discovered polonium and received two Nobel Prizes	Marie Curie	78%
Empress whose reign is called the Golden Age of Russia	Catherine the Great	74%
Introduced Glasnost and Perestroika to the USSR, before it collapsed	Mikhail Gorbachev	74%
Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	73%
First Roman emperor	Augustus	71%
North Vietnamese leader until 1969	Ho Chi-Minh	70%
Westernized Russia and founded St. Petersburg	Peter the Great	70%
Cubist painter of "Guernica"	Pablo Picasso	68%
General who led the French Resistance and later served as President	Charles de Gaulle	67%
"Iron chancellor" who united Germany	Otto von Bismarck	66%
Author of the "Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	65%
Austrian Wunderkind who composed "The Magic Flute"	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	64%
Initiated the first circumnavigation of the globe	Ferdinand Magellan	60%
Proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, triggering a Scientific Revolution	Nicolaus Copernicus	57%
Soviet leader during the Cuba Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev	54%
Apostle who is attributed to having written around half of the New Testament	Saint Paul	54%
Greek scientist who went bathing and exclaimed, "Eureka!"	Archimedes	53%
"Prince of Terror" during the French Revolution	Maximilien Robespierre	53%
United Spain with Ferdinand II and completed the Reconquista	Isabella of Castile	52%
Author of "Don Quijote"	Miguel de Cervantes	50%
Chilean dictator 1973-1991	Augusto Pinochet	47%
Wrote "Crime and Punishment"	Fyodor Dostoyevski	47%
Babylonian king whose code of laws introduced an "eye for eye" policy	Hammurabi	43%
Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran	Ruhollah Khomeini	40%
Königsberg philosopher and authority on ethical dilemmas	Immanuel Kant	39%
Designed the first practical automobile	Carl Benz	37%
Solidarity leader and first Polish president after the fall of Communism	Lech Wałęsa	32%
Conquered and united China by 221 BC	Qin Shi Huang	29%
French feminist who said, "One is not born but becomes a woman."	Simone de Beauvoir	29%
Introduced free market economy to China	Deng Xiaoping	28%