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People in History by Wikipedia Descriptions #3 - Statistics

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Excerpt	Person	% Correct
The people of France saw her death as a necessary step toward completing the revolution	Marie Antoinette	89%
A Hungarian-born American illusionist, noted for his sensational escape acts	Harry Houdini	85%
He argued that the working class should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism	Karl Marx	81%
He met his future wife, Jacqueline Bouvier, when he was a congressman	John F. Kennedy	77%
Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, eliminating the last of his opponents among the former Party leadership	Joseph Stalin	77%
Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her younger half-sister and successor Elizabeth	Queen Mary I	77%
A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion	Che Guevara	73%
Early sources that attest to his historical existence include the works of the historians Josephus and Tacitus	Jesus Christ	70%
Known as "the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films	Alfred Hitchcock	66%
As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment	Catherine the Great	64%
She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi	61%
A well-known account of his life is presented in the film Braveheart	William Wallace	60%
He began planning a major novel about social misery and injustice as early as the 1830s, but a full 17 years were needed for Les Misérables to be realised	Victor Hugo	58%
The Royalists returned to power along with King Charles II in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded	Oliver Cromwell	54%
Shakespeare portrays him as having a hunch, a limp and a withered arm	King Richard III	51%
He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America	Leif Erikson	49%
Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed	William Penn	33%
His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome	Virgil	32%

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