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40 Historical People that Everyone Should Know - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 1,011,279 times
1,011,142 since last reset
- The average score is 24 of 40
Answer Stats
| Clue | Person | % Correct |
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| German WWII leader | Adolf Hitler | 89%
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| Christian Messiah | Jesus | 89%
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| Wrote "Hamlet" | William Shakespeare | 89%
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| First U.S. President | George Washington | 88%
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| "Mona Lisa" painter | Leonardo da Vinci | 86%
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| Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 84%
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| First man on the moon | Neil Armstrong | 84%
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| "Discovered" the New World | Christopher Columbus | 83%
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| Started the Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther | 76%
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| U.K. Prime Minister during WWII | Winston Churchill | 75%
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| U.S. Civil War President | Abraham Lincoln | 74%
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| Wrote "On the Origin of Species" | Charles Darwin | 73%
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| Father of the nation of India | Mohandas Gandhi | 72%
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| Founder of Islam | Muhammad | 72%
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| His laws of motion explain how the planets move | Isaac Newton | 71%
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| French Emperor, 1804-1815 | Napoleon | 68%
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| Virgin Queen of England | Queen Elizabeth I | 68%
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| First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher | 67%
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| Refused to give up her bus seat, in Montgomery, Alabama | Rosa Parks | 64%
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| "Moonlight Sonata" composer | Ludwig van Beethoven | 62%
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| Led the effort to create the first practical light bulb | Thomas Edison | 62%
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| First Soviet leader | Vladimir Lenin | 62%
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| Greek who conquered Persia | Alexander the Great | 60%
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| Supposedly wrote "The Iliad" | Homer | 59%
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| French woman who led troops in the Hundred Years War | Joan of Arc | 57%
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| "New Deal" President of the U.S. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 52%
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| Killed on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 50%
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| Wrote "Pride and Prejudice" | Jane Austen | 49%
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| His "Great Leap Forward" killed over 30 million | Mao Zedong | 48%
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| Wrote "Great Expectations" | Charles Dickens | 44%
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| She was the first deaf and blind college graduate | Helen Keller | 44%
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| Creator of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 43%
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| Led his elephants across the Alps | Hannibal | 42%
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| Aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific | Amelia Earhart | 40%
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| Invented the mechanical printing press | Johannes Gutenberg | 39%
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| "Discovered" the east coast of Australia | James Cook | 34%
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| Battle of Trafalgar admiral | Horatio Nelson | 31%
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| Lord Protector of England, 1653-1658 | Oliver Cromwell | 30%
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| Called the "Liberator" of Latin America | Simón Bolívar | 26%
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| "Tao te Ching" author | Laozi | 12%
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