Statistics for People on Time Covers 1990

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Hint	Persons	% Correct
American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the US president from 1989 to 1993. He also served as the vice president from 1981 to 1989	George H W Bush	100%
Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988. Time Man of the Decade	Mikhail Gorbachev	85%
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state.	Nelson Mandela	85%
President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the vice president from 1953 to 1961.	Richard Nixon	85%
American politician and businessman who served as the US vice president from 2001 to 2009 He served as White House Chief of Staff, the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989, and as the US secretary of defense.	Dick Cheney	69%
American politician and actor who served as the US president from 1981 to 1989. He is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history.	Ronald Reagan	69%
American politician, statesman, diplomat, and US Army officer who was the US secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first Black secretary of state.	Colin Powell	62%
American politician who served as the vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981 and in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1989.	Dan Quayle	62%
Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003	Saddam Hussein	62%
Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.	Vladimir Lenin	62%
American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician and actor. He has received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. He won awards for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive as well as Twin Peaks	David Lynch	54%
German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998.	Helmut Kohl	54%
King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982 until his death in 2005.	King Fahd	38%
Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.	Andrei Sakharov	31%
American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music	Wynton Marsalis	31%
American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 until his retirement in 2009.	David Souter	23%
American politician who was the governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989 and later White House chief of staff from 1989 to 1991.	John Sununu	23%
American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Pardoned by Donald Trump	Michael Milken	15%
American author and lawyer. After leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, he became a novelist and wrote the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent , The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries,	Scott Turow	15%
Said a black man had carjacked their car in Boston and shot both his pregnant wife and himself. His statement set off a months-long manhunt by the Boston Police Department for a black assailant that lasted until his brother confessed that the wife was killed by the husband to collect her insurance payout	Charles Stuart	8%
Elected to two consecutive one-year terms as president of the National Rifle Association of America. He maintained a rigorous speaking schedule and spoke out for conservative causes on what he considered a weakening of gun owners' rights.	Joe Foss	0%