Historical Figures Known by a Single Name #1 - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo
95%
Lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony Cleopatra
91%
Young pharaoh who was dug up in 1922 Tutankhamun
88%
Blind poet of ancient Greece credited with writing "The Iliad" Homer
86%
Emperor accused of fiddling while Rome burned Nero
80%
Founded the Academy of Athens Plato
80%
The only player to win three men's FIFA World Cups Pelé
78%
Powhatan girl who saved John Smith in Virginia Pocahontas
77%
Author of "The Divine Comedy" Dante
73%
Builder of a wall in northern England Hadrian
72%
Japanese emperor during WWII Hirohito
72%
Greatest of Frankish kings Charlemagne
66%
Apache leader whose name people yell when jumping from airplanes Geronimo
65%
Carthaginian general who won the Battle of Cannae Hannibal
63%
Writer of many fables, including "The Tortoise and the Hare" Aesop
57%
Discovering the principle of buoyancy, he cried "Eureka!" Archimedes
55%
Aztec emperor defeated by Cortes Moctezuma
44%
It is far safer for a leader to be feared than loved, said this Italian Machiavelli
42%
Frenchman who quipped "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" Voltaire
37%
Sultan who fought against the crusaders in the Third Crusade Saladin
33%
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