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Years Active	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1638-1715	French monarch known as the "Sun King"	Louis XIV	73%
1891-1944	German Army Field Marshal from World War Two, nicknamed the "Desert Fox"	Erwin Rommel	71%
1729-96	Empress of Russia, 1762-96	Catherine the Great	68%
742/48 - 814	Founder of the Carolingian Empire	Charlemagne	65%
1913-80	Four time gold medallist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics	Jesse Owens	55%
1898-1978	Female Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74	Golda Meir	51%
1480-1521	Portuguese explorer who organised the exploration that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the world	Ferdinand Magellan	50%
1724-1804	German philosopher who published Critique of Pure Reason in 1781	Immanuel Kant	38%
1515-57	Fourth wife of Henry VIII	Anne of Cleves	37%
1556-1623	Wife of William Shakespeare	Anne Hathaway	36%
1912-78	Pope whose tenure lasted just 33 days	John Paul I	36%
1900-2002	Long-lived wife of King George VI of Great Britain	Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother	36%
1927-2014	Nobel Prize-winning Columbian author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love In The Time Of Cholera"	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	35%
1855-80	Australian outlaw captured after a shootout with police	Ned Kelly	35%
1883-1967	British Labour Prime Minister, 1945-51	Clement Attlee	31%
1737-93	First Governor of Massachusetts and prominent signatory of the Declaration of Independence	John Hancock	31%
1790-1862	10th President of the United States, 1841-45	John Tyler	31%
1807-82	General and politician who was a central figure in the unification of Italy	Giuseppe Garibaldi	30%
1960-94	Brazilian three-time Championship winning Formula One racing driver	Ayrton Senna	29%
1102-67	Empress of England in a disputed claim over the throne	Matilda	27%
1485-1540	English Secretary of State during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, main subject of a series of books by Hilary Mantel	Thomas Cromwell	26%
1850-1916	Senior British Army General who died half way through World War One; appeared on a famous recruitment poster	Horatio Herbert Kitchener	23%
1571-1630	German mathematician and astronomer who devised the laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	23%
1843-1907	Norwegian composer of Piano Concerto in A Minor	Edvard Grieg	22%
1890-1922	Irish revolutionary leader shot and killed during the Irish Civil War	Michael Collins	21%
1508-1458BC	Longest reigning female pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty	Hatshepsut	20%
1858-1928	Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union	Emmeline Pankhurst	19%
1889-1978	First President of Kenya, 1964-78	Jomo Kenyatta	19%
1812-70	Famous author, middle name Huffam, whose lesser known works include The Chimes, Our Mutual Friend and The Battle of Life	Charles Dickens	17%
1908-75	First actor to portray Doctor Who on television	William Hartnell	17%
1906-67	Last Emperor of China, expelled from the Forbidden City in 1917	Aisin-Gioro Puyi	16%
1806-61	She wrote "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" in Sonnets From the Portuguese	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	15%
1415-92	Introduced the printing press into England in 1476	William Caxton	9%
1901-54	Co-designer of the first Nuclear reactor with Leo Szilard	Enrico Fermi	8%
1815-91	First Prime Minister of Canada, 1878-91	John A. McDonald	8%
1932-2008	Grammy award winning singer and Civil Rights activist, nicknamed "Mama Africa"	Miriam Makeba	4%
1505-85	16th Century English composer who specialised in Church music	Thomas Tallis	3%
1506-34	Catholic Nun who made prophecies against Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Nicknamed the "Maid of Kent"	Elizabeth Barton	2%
1554-1618	Captained the first voyage of the East India Company in 1601	James Lancaster	1%
1726-95	American colonel who ordered his soldiers to not fire "until you've seen the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill	William Prescott	1%