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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Third Reich	Adolf Hitler	92%
"We will never surrender" British PM	Winston Churchill	92%
US civil rights, non-violence	Martin Luther King	85%
E=mc2	Albert Einstein	84%
Iron Lady, Milk Snatcher, Falkland Islands	Margaret Thatcher	84%
Wrote a diary in an Amsterdam attic, died in the Holocaust	Anne Frank	83%
Founded USSR and NEP	Lenin	80%
First lady, UN delegate	Eleanor Roosevelt	79%
Robben Island, ANC, President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	79%
People's Princess, celebrity activist, brakes failed	Princess Diana	79%
Windows, computer software	Bill Gates	77%
ET, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	77%
Hollywood, Governor, President	Ronald Reagan	75%
Norma Jeane, actress/pinup, Some Like it Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, the Kennedys, Candle in a Wind	Marilyn Monroe	74%
Id, ego and superego	Sigmund Freud	73%
French fashion designer, No. 5	Coco Chanel	72%
Long March, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution	Mao Zedong	72%
Non-violence, salt march	Gandhi	70%
Model T, five dollar day, anti semetic, operated factories in Germany with French slave labor.	Henry Ford	68%
Talk show host, free cars, book club, and Dr. Phil. Now has her own network.	Oprah Winfrey	68%
Silent film star, Little Tramp	Charlie Chaplin	67%
"Fly me to the moon" "Angel Eyes" "One for my Baby" --- blue eyes	Frank Sinatra	67%
New Deal, husband of the above	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	64%
British group who invaded the US, name the group	the Beatles	64%
Camelot, assassination prone, Catholic, bootlegger dad, president son, name the family	the Kennedy family	64%
American soul musician demands respect	Aretha Franklin	63%
American jazz musician, Satchmo	Louis Armstrong	63%
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" "The Greatest", Caissus Clay	Muhammad Ali	63%
Flying brothers from a Dayton, Ohio bicycle shop	Orville and Wilbur Wright	63%
Sat in the front of the bus, refused to move to the back, Montgomery Alabama	Rosa Parks	62%
Argentine revolutionary, Cuban hero, granddaughter holds the marketing rights to his image outside Cuba, every wannabe revoltionary has a poster, three letters	Che Guevara	61%
Last General Secretary of USSR	Mikhail Gorbachev	60%
the blue period, Guernica	Pablo Picasso	60%
Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Wild One, Last Tango in Paris, On the Waterfront	Marlon Brando	59%
Chinese-American maritial arts and action movie star	Bruce Lee	58%
Leader of North Vietnam and is now Saigon	Ho Chi Minh	58%
Albanian Catholic nun in Calcutta	Mother Teresa	54%
Polish pope, Karol Józef Wojtyła	Pope John Paul II	54%
Frozen animator	Walt Disney	51%
blind and deaf, social activist	Helen Keller	50%
Invented WWW and HTTP	Tim Berners Lee	50%
Irish novelist, the Ulysses	James Joyce	49%
Animated character, longest running tv show, writes on the chalkboard	Bart Simpson	47%
Found an expanding universe, telescope is named after him	Edwin Hubble	44%
Roughriders, bears, US national parks	Theodore Roosevelt	44%
Gay rights, San Fransciso mayor, assassinated, twinkie defence	Harvey Milk	43%
American 1950's actress and comedienne, was "love"d by all	Lucille Ball	42%
Abbrevaition for an American soldier, not a real person	American GI	41%
Created penicillin, cured syphilis and TB	Alexander Fleming	39%
Duo, first to climb Mt. Everest, one gets more credit than the other	Norgay and Hillary	39%
The Muppets, Fraggle Rocket	Jim Henson	36%
Flew across the Atlantic, son was kidnapped, an American fascist	Charles Lindbergh	35%
Worked on Enigma, formed an AI test, father of modern computing, charged with homosexuality and lost UK security clearance, chemical castration, sucide	Alan Turing	34%
Islamic Revolution in Iran	Khomeini	31%
Played baseball for Montreal Royals and the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the color barrier	Jackie Robinson	30%
Virologist, polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	28%
Newport folk festival goes electric	Bob Dylan	26%
First Israeli PM	David Ben Gurion	26%
American evangelist, pastor to the presidents	Billy Graham	23%
British economist, The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money. Friedman was not a fan.	John Maynard Keynes	23%
President of IBM from 1952 to 1971, considered the greatest capitalist in history	Thomas Watson	23%
__________, Lynch and Company	Charles Merrill	22%
American modern dancer and choreographer	Martha Graham	22%
South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I (duo)	Rodgers and Hammerstein	22%
Founded world's largest retailler on low prices and Chinese labor	Sam Walton	21%
English-American poet, the Wasteland	T.S. Eliot	20%
The Rite of Spring by a Russian, classical composer	Igor Stravinsky	19%
Founded McDonald's	Ray Kroc	19%
Birth control, Planned Parenthood	Margarent Sanger	18%
Founded an American cosmetics firm using her name.	Estee Lauder	17%
Duo, molecular biologists, double helix DNA, Nobel Prize, "forgot" to mention Rosalind Franklin's contribution.	Watson and Crick	17%
English suffragist, advocated direct action smashing windows, arson, and hunger strikes. Later became a supporter of the Conservative and militant anti-communist.	Emmeline Pankhurst	16%
"Silent Spring", founded the modern environmental movement, no more DDT	Rachel Carson	14%
Chinese protestor, Tiananmen Square, not a real name	Unknown Rebel	14%
Co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous	Bill Wilson	11%
Atomic pile in a Chicago squash court	Enrico Fermi	9%
Modern French-Swiss architet, born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, blamed for high rise public housing projects	Le Corbusier	9%
Swiss child developmental psychologist, stages of intellectual growth	Jean Piaget	7%
British family living in East Africa, athropologists and archeologists	The Leakey family	7%
NFL commisioner, 1960 - 89	Pete Rozelle	6%
Austrian philosopher, Tractatus-Logico, Philosophical Investigations,	Ludwig Wittgenstein	5%
American rocket scientist, patented liquid fueled and multi staged rockets, died in 1945	Robert H. Goddard	5%
Invented air conditioning. Name the firm for the last name.	Willis Carrier	5%
Austrian mathematician, incompleteness theorems	Kurt Godel	4%
Created suburbia in post war America.	William Levitt	4%
Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, human rights advocate. Nobel peace prize 1975	Andrei Sakharov	3%
American sometimes credited with inventing television instead of Zworykin.	Philo Farnsworth	2%
Co-founded Sony Inc.	Akio Morita	1%
Helped found Bank of America, helped rebuild San Francisco in 1906, loaned money to Disney and Hewlett Packard to get them started. Founded Transamerica.	A.P. Giannini	1%
Was in charge of RCA and NBC creating network radio and TV.	David Sarnoff	1%
Founder of Pan Am, brought air travel to the masses	Juan Trippe	1%
Belgian-American chemist who invented modern plastics, Bakelite	Leo Baekeland	1%
Ad executive who gave us the jolly green giant, tony the tiger and the marlboro man	Leo Burnett	1%
UAW organizer and leader	Walter Reuther	1%
Co-invented the solid state transistor, Nobel prize in physics, helped start silicon valley	William Shockley	1%
Owns politically connected construction firm with Iraq and Katrina contracts. Name the firm for the last name.	Stephen Bechtel	0%