Statistics for Historical Figures 2

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Years active	Clue	Answer	% Correct
428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347BC	Greek Philosopher and mathematician, founder of The Academy in Athens	Plato	83%
1783-1830	The "George Washington of South America", who led the cause of freedom for Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia	Simon Bolivar	77%
1274-1329	King of Scots who led Scotland during the first war of Scottish independence against England	Robert the Bruce	69%
1485-1547	Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that saw the fall of the Aztec Empire	Hernando Cortes	63%
1881-1938	Founder and first President of modern Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk	57%
570-495BC	Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician who had a theorem named after him	Pythagoras of Samos	57%
1840-1926	Artist who was a founder of the French Impressionist movement and lived at Giverny, where he created lily ponds that became the subject ofhis best-known works	Oscar-Claude Monet	54%
1694-1778	French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, real name Francois-Marie Arouet	Voltaire	54%
1632-1723	English architect, famous for building London's St Paul's Cathedral	Sir Christopher Wren	51%
1473-1543	Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who wrote 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres'	Nicolaus Copernicus	49%
1916-2003	American film actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'	Gregory Peck	43%
1755 or 57 - 1804	American Founding Father, chief aide to George Washington and founder of the US financial system	Alexander Hamilton	40%
1872-1928	Norwegian explorer who led the 1910-12 Antarctic expedition that was the first to reach the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	40%
106-43BC	Roman philosopher, politician, consul and orator	Marcus Tullius Cicero	37%
1632-1704	English philosopher, physician and enlightenment thinker, the father of Classical Liberalism	John Locke	34%
1856-1943	German-American inventor and electrical engineer	Nikola Tesla	34%
1808-89	Mississippi Senator who became President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War	Jefferson Davis	31%
1749-1823	English physician and scientist, pioneer of the Smallpox vaccine, often credited as the 'Father of Immunology'	Edward Jenner	29%
1707-78	Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, known as the father of modern taxonomy	Carl Linnaeus	20%
1908-73	Chilean Marxist physician and politician who was deposed as his country's President by Augusto Pinochet's military junta	Salvador Allende	20%
1571-1610	Italian Baroque painter whose works include 'Death of the Virgin' and 'The Calling of Saint Matthew'	Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio	17%
1809-92	British poet laureate throughout the majority of Queen Victoria's reign	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	14%
9-79	First Emperor of the Flavian Dynasty, who built the Roman Colosseum	Vespasian	9%
1880-1958	British author and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights who wrote a sex manual called 'Married Love'	Marie Stopes	6%
1805-81	Jamaican-born nurse who set up a refuge for British soldiers to aid battlefield wounded during the Crimean War	Mary Seacole	6%
1901-63	First President of the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), assassinated as part of a coup d'etat	Ngo Dinh Diem	6%
1899-1943	High-profile and symbolic member of the French Resistance during World War Two	Jean Moulin	3%
1808-77	English feminist and social reformer, involved in a famous 19th century court case between her husband and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne	Caroline Norton	0%
1572-1633	Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620	Cornelius Drebbel	0%
1745-97	Freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade and wrote the first-known slave narrative. Also known as Gustavus Vassa	Olaudah Equiano	0%