Statistics for World Thinkers 2013

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Atheist, biologist, author, "The Selfish Gene", meme, "The God Delusioin"	Richard Dawkins	85%
Physicist, "________ Boson" CERN proved him correct, expected to be given a Nobel this year	Peter Higgs	70%
Psychologist, linguist, cognitive scientist, "The Better Angels of Our Nature" "The Language Instinct" "The Blank Slate" "The Stuff of Thought"	Steven Pinker	45%
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" "Collapse" "The World Until Yesterday"	Jared Diamond	40%
Indian writer and political activist, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things", now writes on the status of women, corporate corruption and Kashmiri independence	Arundhati Roy	35%
Neurologists, "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" "Awakenings" "Hallucinations"	Oliver Sacks	35%
Keynesian economist, Nobel prize winner, critic of austerity, NYT columnist	Paul Krugman	35%
Lacanian psychoanalysis, most annoying philospher alive,	Slavoj Zizek	35%
Chinese artist, knows for his work on the "Birds Nest" for the Olympics and "Sunflower Seeds" at the Tate, arrested and jailed by the Chinese in 2011 for 88 days	Ai WeiWei	30%
Statistician, political blogger and NYT columnist, correctly predicted all 50 states in the 2010 election, "The Signal and the Noise"	Nate Silver	30%
"Thinking Fast and Slow", psychologist, behaviorial economist, Nobel in 2002	Daniel Kahneman	20%
South African-American entrepreneur and inventor, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors	Elon Musk	20%
Former director of UN International Atomic Energy agency, Nobel peace prize 2005, led opposition to President Morsi of Egypt, possible PM of Egypt	Mohamed El Baradei	15%
Conservative British financial historian, "Civilization: The West and the Rest", best example of an arrogant academic, professor at Harvard	Niall Ferguson	15%
Developmental economist, social choice theory, Nobel in 1998, argues against austerity	Amartya Sen	10%
American journalist, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "Gulag" "Iron Curtain", Pulitzer Prize, married to the Polish Foreign Minister	Anne Applebaum	10%
South Korean economist, now at Cambridge, "23 Things They Didn't Tell You About Capitalism", highly critical of free market economics	Ha Joon Chang	10%
Swedish statistician and physician, co-founded Médecins sans Frontières, Trendalyzer software for the anaysis of statistics was purchased by Google in 2007.	Hans Rosling	10%
Iranian film director, "About Elly" "A Separation", won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and nominated for Best Screenplay	Asghar Farhadi	5%
American philosophy professor at Harvard know for his "Justice" course available free online, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limites of the Market"	Michael Sandel	5%
World Bank and later Minister of Trade, Finance and Defence in post Hussien Iraq, "The Crisis of Islamic Civilization"	Ali Allawi	0%
Professor at Columbia, Berkeley and John Hopkins, economist at World Bank, now Finance Minister of his native Afghanistan	Ashraf Ghani	0%
American geneticist and entrepreneur, one of the first to sequence the human genome, working on synthetic life forms	Craig Venter	0%
Professor of philosophy and law at University of Chicago, "The Fragility of Goodness" "The New Religious Intolerance"	Martha Nussbaum	0%
Physicist, Nobel 1979, propoent of final theory, "Cosmology" "Lake Views"	Steven Weinberg	0%