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People in History by Wikipedia Descriptions #2 - Statistics

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Excerpt	Person	% Correct
He was mocked as a short-tempered small man. In fact, at about 170 cm (5 ft 7 in), he was of average height.	Napoleon	96%
On the Ides of March, 44 BC, he was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators	Julius Caesar	95%
He became an ardent proponent of Rastafari, taking its music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene	Bob Marley	86%
Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her decisive re-election in 1983	Margaret Thatcher	84%
Although he did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford	Henry Ford	82%
By his request, his body was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia	Genghis Khan	79%
Many historians and scholars regard him as the prime exemplar of the "Renaissance Man"	Leonardo da Vinci	73%
Most European navigators reasonably concluded that a westward voyage from Europe to Asia was unfeasible	Christopher Columbus	72%
As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod and bifocals	Benjamin Franklin	70%
After a reputed 49 days of meditation, he is said to have attained Enlightenment	Buddha	67%
He later became troubled with the institution of slavery and freed his slaves in a 1799 will	George Washington	61%
Xenophon and Plato agree that he had an opportunity to escape	Socrates	58%
He was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890	Otto von Bismarck	46%
... a scandal caused by her extramarital affair with co-star Richard Burton	Elizabeth Taylor	40%
He gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. Cortés later melted these down for their monetary value.	Montezuma	37%
The common term lesbian originates from the name of the island of Lesbos, where she was born	Sappho	33%
She was the first woman to head a TV production company: Desilu, which she had formed with Arnaz	Lucille Ball	31%
Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age	Josephine Baker	16%

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