| Description | Died in | "Great" Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conquered Persia | 323 BC | Alexander the Great | 95%
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| Empress of Russia | 1796 | Catherine the Great | 81%
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| Russian tsar who founded a new capital | 1725 | Peter the Great | 76%
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| Greatest of Frankish kings | 814 | Charlemagne (aka Charles the Great) | 72%
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| United Russia under the leadership of Moscow | 1505 | Ivan the Great | 56%
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| First Christian Roman emperor | 337 | Constantine the Great | 54%
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| King of Judea who appears in the Bible as a baby-killing tyrant | 1 BC | Herod the Great | 49%
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| King of Prussia for 46 years | 1786 | Frederick the Great | 44%
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| Most powerful of Egyptian pharaohs, also known as Ozymandias | 1213 BC | Ramesses the Great | 44%
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| Founded the first Persian empire | 530 BC | Cyrus the Great | 35%
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| Often called the first king of England | 899 | Alfred the Great | 34%
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| Byzantine emperor who reconquered Italy, built the Hagia Sophia, and rewrote the law books | 565 | Justinian the Great | 32%
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| Roman triumvir whose nickname, "the great", was originally ironic | 48 BC | Pompey the Great | 22%
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| Ruled Denmark, England, and Norway | 1035 | Cnut the Great | 21%
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| United the Hawaiian islands | 1819 | Kamehameha the Great | 20%
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| Presided over the rapid Westernization of Japan | 1912 | Meiji the Great | 15%
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| Extended the Mughal empire | 1605 | Akbar the Great | 11%
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