Most Important People in History - Statistics

Jump to: Answer Stats | Score Distribution | Your Scores

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 50,566 times
The average score is 41 of 100

Answer Stats

#	Who They Are / What They Did	Person	% Correct
1	Messiah of Christianity	Jesus Christ	99%
6	Started WWII	Adolf Hitler	97%
2	Founded Islam	Muhammad	94%
5	Rediscovered the New World	Christopher Columbus	93%
13	Won WWII, modernized the USSR, killed millions	Joseph Stalin	92%
17	Led India to independence from the UK	Mohandas Gandhi	86%
26	Led the Communist revolution in Russia	V. I. Lenin	85%
10	Father of Communism	Karl Marx	84%
14	Led the Communist revolution in China	Mao Zedong	84%
37	Discovered relativity	Albert Einstein	83%
9	Sparked the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	83%
16	Conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture	Alexander the Great	82%
4	Founded Buddhism	Buddha	81%
22	Discovered calculus and the theory of gravitation	Isaac Newton	81%
44	Led the U.K. through WWII	Winston Churchill	81%
34	Discovered evolution	Charles Darwin	80%
7	Conquered most of Asia	Genghis Khan	80%
31	Conquered Gaul. Became dictator of Rome	Julius Caesar	80%
24	Leader of the American revolution	George Washington	76%
46	Led the U.S. through the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	75%
40	Helped invent the lightbulb and much more	Thomas Edison	74%
48	Invented the airplane (two people)	Wright Brothers	70%
3	Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	69%
12	Conquered most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	68%
60	Led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII	Franklin Roosevelt	67%
52	Made discoveries about radiation	Marie Curie	67%
8	Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	64%
93	Important artist and "Renaissance" man	Leonardo da Vinci	64%
53	Broke England away from the Catholic church	Henry VIII	63%
20	First Roman emperor	Augustus	62%
71	First post-apartheid President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	62%
59	Assembly line and automobile pioneer	Henry Ford	61%
88	Most prominent figure in the American Civil Rights movement	Martin Luther King, Jr.	61%
94	Musical composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	59%
92	Playwright	William Shakespeare	59%
21	Conquered England	William the Conqueror	55%
91	Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	53%
27	Helped Latin America achieve independence	Simón Bolívar	52%
25	Expanded the Frankish empire	Charlemagne	50%
96	Probably the most influential painter of the 20th century	Pablo Picasso	49%
23	Father of Western Philosophy	Plato	49%
95	Renaissance artist	Michelangelo	48%
77	Sometimes called the Father of Modern Science	Galileo Galilei	46%
35	Allowed Rome to become a Christian empire	Constantine	42%
45	Led England to a period of great discovery and prosperity	Queen Elizabeth I	41%
43	Unified Spain (two people)	Ferdinand & Isabella	40%
42	Greatly expanded the Russian empire	Peter the Great	40%
73	Conquered the Aztecs	Hernán Cortés	39%
78	Discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	38%
39	Father of Economics	Adam Smith	37%
69	Led Russia to become a great power	Catherine the Great	37%
36	Greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom	Ramesses II	37%
47	First to sail from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	36%
70	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	35%
38	Attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought	Aristotle	35%
76	Unified Germany under Prussian leadership	Otto von Bismarck	34%
28	Converted the Gentiles to Christianity	St. Paul	31%
19	Started Taoism	Laozi	30%
57	Father of Geometry	Euclid	29%
72	Conquered the Incas	Francisco Pizarro	28%
33	Made huge breakthroughs in disease prevention	Louis Pasteur	27%
62	Discovered genetics	Gregor Mendel	26%
32	Improved the steam engine	James Watt	26%
49	To Sunnis, the fourth caliph; to Shiites, the first imam	Ali	25%
84	Invented the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	24%
29	Started a once-popular religion called Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	24%
99	19th century novelist	Charles Dickens	22%
11	Founded the Persian empire	Cyrus the Great	22%
87	Father of computer science	Alan Turing	20%
15	Unified China	Qin Shi Huang	20%
86	Emperor of Ethiopia, messiah of a minor religion	Haile Selassie	19%
30	Started the Crusades	Pope Urban II	19%
61	Made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy in the 17th century	René Descartes	18%
50	Invented the smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	17%
98	Pop musician	John Lennon	16%
51	Preeminent mathematician of the 18th century	Leonhard Euler	12%
41	Conquered Central Asia in the late 1300s	Timur	12%
67	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	11%
66	First President of Indonesia	Sukarno	11%
100	20th century athlete	Pelé	10%
65	Conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire	Mehmed the Conqueror	9%
18	Expanded the Maurya Empire to most of the Indian subcontinent	Ashoka	8%
82	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	8%
75	Helped develop the Scientific Method	Francis Bacon	8%
80	Improved the microscope. Observed single-celled organisms	Antony van Leeuwenhoek	7%
68	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	James Maxwell	7%
81	Promoted sterile surgery	Joseph Lister	7%
85	Founder of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	7%
79	Father of Modern Chemistry	Antoine Lavoisier	6%
55	Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	5%
83	Prophet who founded Manichaeism, a now extinct religion	Mani	5%
90	Hero of Mexican independence	Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla	3%
56	Potentially saved hundreds of millions by improving crop yields	Norman Borlaug	3%
64	Conquered Persia and much of the Byzantine Empire	Umar	3%
97	Arguably influenced pop culture more than anyone else	Walt Disney	3%
54	Invented birth control	Gregory Pincus	2%
74	Founder of Jainism	Mahavira	2%
63	Founded the Umayyad caliphate	Muawiyah I	2%
58	Emperor who led China to a golden age during the Tang dynasty	Taizong of Tang	2%
89	Helped overthrow the Shogunate in Japan	Sakamoto Ryōma	1%

Score Distribution

Percent of People with Each Score

Percentile by Number Answered

Your Score History

You have not taken this quiz

Countries of the World Quiz

US States Quiz

NATO Military Alphabet

Car Logos Quiz #1

Random Fast Typing

Word Scramble - U.S. States

Name the English Monarchs

Olympian Gods Quiz

Word Scramble - National Capitals

One Border Countries

FIFA World Cup Top 4 Positions

General Knowledge Quiz #1