Statistics for People on Time Covers 1998

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Hint	Answers	% Correct
American politician who served as the US president from 1993 to 2001.He previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Man of the Year	Bill Clinton	100%
Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.	Fidel Castro	100%
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.	Pope John Paul II	100%
Canadian-American actor. He broke out as a star in motion pictures with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber. This was followed with Batman Forever, Liar Liar, and the Truman Show in 1998.	Jim Carrey	92%
American actor. He came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter followed by leading roles in Carrie, and Grease. He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction.	John Travolta	92%
American businessman and professional basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in the (NBA) between 1984 and 2003, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls	Michael Jordan	92%
American activist and writer. A former White House intern, she became famous in the late 1990s as the result of a political scandal when the U.S. President admitted to having an affair with her during her days as an intern between 1995 and 1997	Monica Lewinsky	92%
American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century. He passed away in 1998.	Frank Sinatra	83%
The most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, he was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship of the Torah is attributed.	Moses	83%
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. She was the richest African-American of the 20th century.	Oprah Winfrey	83%
American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. From 1989 to 1998, he played a semi-fictionalized version of himself in a TV sitcom.	Jerry Seinfeld	75%
American Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth. He served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.	John Glenn	75%
Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.	Boris Yeltsin	67%
She starred in Ally McBeal; an American legal comedy drama television series.	Calista Flockhart	67%
American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s	Gloria Steinem	67%
American feminist writer and activist. Her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.	Betty Friedan	58%
American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored a report, which served as the basis for the impeachment of the 42nd US president. Man of the Year	Ken Starr	58%
Living from 1820 to 1906, she was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.	Susan B Anthony	58%
American professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in the MLB. He spent most of his career with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds. He is one of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history; his 630 home runs rank as the seventh-most in MLB history.	Ken Griffey Jr	50%
American professional baseball first baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St. Louis as a coach in 2011. One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, he hit 583 home runs during his career,	Mark McGwire	50%
American politician and author who served as the speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999.	Newt Gingrich	50%
American novelist. In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which was made into a movie in 1998. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.	Toni Morrison	50%
American civil servant. A former Arkansas state employee, she sued the US President for sexual harassment in 1994.	Paula Jones	42%
American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. His novels include Bonfire of the Vanities.	Tom Wolfe	42%
Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc., which he started with classmate David Filo in 1994.	Jerry Yang	33%