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