People in History A-Z #2

Name the historical figure for each letter of the alphabet!
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Last updated: March 29, 2016
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First submittedFebruary 27, 2015
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Letter
Hint
Answer
A
First Roman Emperor, previously named Octavian
Augustus
B
Deaf German composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
C
British Prime Minister in WWII
Winston Churchill
D
King who ruled Persia at its peak
Darius I
E
Inventor nicknamed the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Thomas Alva Edison
F
Austrian pioneer of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
G
Italian Renaissance astronomer who discovered moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei
H
Ancient Greek Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
I
Egyptian sometimes credited as history's first architect and doctor
Imhotep
J
U.S. President who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
K
U.S. civil rights activist who "had a dream"
Martin Luther King Jr.
L
Russian communist revolutionary who replaced Russia with the USSR
Vladimir Lenin
M
Portuguese explorer who started the first circumnavigation of the world
Ferdinand Magellan
N
17th century physicist who discovered gravity
Isaac Newton
O
British author who wrote "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
George Orwell
P
French chemist who discovered that germs cause disease
Louis Pasteur
Q
President of the Philippines and namesake of a city
Manuel Quezon
R
U.S. President during WWII
Franklin D. Roosevelt
S
Roman slave and gladiator who led the slave uprising
Spartacus
T
First female British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
U
Second modern king of Italy
Umberto
V
Ancient Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid
Virgil
W
Norman conqueror who won the Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror
X
Leader of the school of Athens during the time of Alexander
Xenocrates
Y
Top Japanese admiral during WWII
Isoroku Yamamoto
Z
Associated with a telegram in which he asked Mexico to fight the U.S.
Arthur Zimmerman
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Level 21
Feb 27, 2015
Great quiz. Maybe accept FDR and MLK. I would accept William I or simply William, maybe put a period after King Jr. It's Zimmermann with 2 'N'. And I know I'm REALLY nitpicking here but technically it's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Still a great quiz though, super easy for history buffs like us, keep up the good work!
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Level 92
May 11, 2015
Confused Xenophon and Xenocrates, again. My classics professor is probably hanging his head in shame... again.
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Level 71
Dec 5, 2020
Ditto, though I have no classics professor to feel shame
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Level 85
May 13, 2015
Chamberlain was another British Prime Minister in WWII whose name starts with "C".
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Level ∞
May 13, 2015
One extra credit point for you!
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Level 76
Aug 11, 2015
I think he's asking for it to be a type-in! In which case, +1 from me.
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Level 66
Aug 31, 2015
Yeah that may have helped me as repeatedly trying to figure out how I misspelled Chamberlain wasted some time before thinking of Churchill...
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Level 60
May 21, 2015
Despite the fact that it's in the quiz title, I absolutely failed to notice the answers were alphabetical until I got a few before the end. I'm special.
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Level 77
Jun 1, 2015
Accept "Magalhães" for Magellan please? Even though I am not Portuguese, it's hard to remember the English name when we learned him as Magalhaes in school.
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Level 57
Aug 11, 2015
same problem
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Level 69
Aug 15, 2015
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Level 70
Dec 5, 2020
Looks like a few folks are in that same boat. Curious where that version of the name is used. Is it the Spanish speaking world or are there other locales too?
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Level 55
Dec 5, 2020
No, in the Spanish-speaking world we call him 'Magallanes'. I think that "version" of the name is Portuguese.
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Level 65
Dec 5, 2020
I'm Dutch and I learned "Magelhães"
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Level 82
Aug 11, 2015
The quiz description says few will get U, X, or Y. Y is not hard. There are lots of people obsessed with WW2 history out there. And... you can see he's guessed more than Z, Q, or I. (I did miss U and X, though)
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Level 75
Aug 11, 2015
I'm not obsessed with WWII but I'm old enough to remember my parents and grandparents discussing it. Yamamoto, Tojo, and Hirohito are all names which were imprinted in my brain at a young age.
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Level 71
Dec 5, 2020
Same, I'm not particularly obsessed with WW2 but Yamamoto is relatively famous/important, especially considering he orchestrated Pearl Harbor. Arguably more famous than I or Q (I only got the later based off the "city" clue).
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Level 57
Dec 5, 2020
I think admiral Yi would be more well known. But maybe I’m wrong.
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2020
Got U because of the big memorial in Rome near the Forum. Didn't get I or X.
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Level 69
Aug 11, 2015
Was thinking that the answer for «X» to be Xerxes, an other Persian emperor...
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Level 66
Aug 31, 2015
Do you know why your username as well as the username of a few other commenters are a darker shade of blue?
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Level 83
Sep 26, 2015
Those in the brighter blue are members who have made quizzes. They are hyperlinks. The duller blue is used for those who have not made any quizzes.
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Level 84
Aug 4, 2016
Funny, I've never noticed that.
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Level 88
Dec 5, 2020
Wow, I've never noticed that either. Neat.
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2020
That might make for a good meta quiz question. (But not by dull blue me.)
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Level 37
Nov 20, 2017
WWII started in 1939. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940-1945. Exactly how many people would guess the Appeaser over him in the question: British Prime Minister during WWII"???
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Level 30
Jan 5, 2018
IMHOTEP! Damn it! I misspelled it and missed Xenocrates. 24/26 ain't bad!
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Level 61
May 14, 2018
nice i got xenocrates without looking it up or anything along with 3% of people
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Level 85
Dec 5, 2020
Did Newton really "discover gravity"? People were studying gravity before Newton, including at least one other person referred to in this quiz.
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Level ∞
Dec 5, 2020
More accurately, he described gravity mathematically and used it to explain the motion of celestial bodies, something which had not been done before.
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Level 74
Dec 5, 2020
Does it require the quiz to be reset to fix the Zimmermann issue?
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Level 59
Dec 5, 2020
I was stuck on Y because for some reason I read 'animal' instead of 'admiral' and although I don't know which of these even live in Japan, I just guessed a bunch of Y animals before I gave up.
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Level 79
Dec 5, 2020
I only missed V and X!
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Level 57
Dec 7, 2020
All except Umberto. Crazy how only 3% got Xenocrates. One of the lower percentages Ive seen
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Level 62
Nov 2, 2022
I found Xenocrates only because I'm greek and studied this last year
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Level 55
Apr 24, 2023
Accept "Neville Chamberlain" as well as Churchill
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Level 67
Jun 21, 2023
^
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Level 67
Jun 21, 2023
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