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30 Historical People You Probably Don't Know - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 60,876 times
- The average score is 11 of 30
Answer Stats
| Clue | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| "Great" empress of Russia | Catherine the Great | 78%
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| The real-life inspiration for Dracula | Vlad the Impaler | 60%
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| Serbian inventor whose AC power defeated Edison's DC power | Nikola Tesla | 59%
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| Founder of modern nursing who tended to soldiers in the Crimean War | Florence Nightingale | 53%
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| President of North Vietnam until his death in 1969 | Ho Chi Minh | 52%
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| American actress who married Monaco's Prince Rainier | Grace Kelly | 50%
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| First man to orbit the Earth | Yuri Gagarin | 47%
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| Father of modern Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 46%
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| British commander at Waterloo | Duke of Wellington | 44%
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| Babylonian ruler known for his written code of "an eye for an eye" | Hammurabi | 44%
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| Third wife of Henry VIII | Jane Seymour | 42%
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| First European to reach America | Leif Ericson | 42%
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| Revolutionary War general who switched from American to British allegiance | Benedict Arnold | 38%
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| The inventor of the radio (according to most) | Guglielmo Marconi | 38%
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| Spanish King who launched an Armada against England | Philip II | 37%
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| Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 36%
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| Most well-known Zulu leader | Shaka | 36%
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| Steel tycoon who started thousands of libraries | Andrew Carnegie | 35%
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| "Great" King of Prussia | Frederick the Great | 34%
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| Muslim commander who battled the Crusaders and earned their respect | Saladin | 34%
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| Dutchman who "discovered" Tasmania | Abel Tasman | 29%
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| Economist who proposed government stimulus to correct the Great Depression | John Maynard Keynes | 27%
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| Romantic poet and seducer who died fighting for Greek independence | Lord Byron | 25%
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| Jewish officer wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 France | Alfred Dreyfus | 24%
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| Lakota war leader who defeated Custer | Crazy Horse | 24%
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| "Great" Byzantine emperor who conquered Italy | Justinian | 23%
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| Chinese leader who made free market reforms after Mao's death | Deng Xiaoping | 19%
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| First emperor of China who took mercury pills to seek immortality | Qin Shi Huang | 15%
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| Egyptian sometimes called the world's first architect and doctor | Imhotep | 13%
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| Man who doubled wheat yields in South Asia - saving millions from starvation | Norman Borlaug | 4%
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