| Died | Age | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 BC | 55 | Stabbed to death on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 96%
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| 1564 | 88 | Painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 92%
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| 1945 | 61 | Founder of the National Fascist Party | Benito Mussolini | 90%
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| 1642 | 77 | The first person to see the moons of Jupiter | Galileo Galilei | 87%
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| 1324 | ≈69 | Venetian who traveled to China and met Kublai Khan | Marco Polo | 84%
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| 1321 | ≈56 | His "Divine Comedy" told the story of a man who visited heaven, purgatory, and hell | Dante Alighieri | 82%
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| 212 BC | ≈75 | Genius who supposedly leapt out of the bathtub yelling "Eureka" | Archimedes | 70%
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| 2005 | 84 | He was born in Poland with the name Karol Józef Wojtyła | John Paul II | 70%
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| 1226 | ≈44 | Assisi-born preacher who founded an order of monks | St. Francis | 69%
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| 1988 | 90 | Founded the most successful Formula One team of all time | Enzo Ferrari | 68%
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| c. 66 AD | ? | The first pope | Saint Peter | 67%
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| 2007 | 71 | One of the Three Tenors | Luciano Pavarotti | 64%
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| 2023 | 86 | Billionaire who was Prime Minister of Italy three separate times | Silvio Berlusconi | 62%
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| 1994 | 34 | Formula One champion who died at the San Marino Grand Prix | Ayrton Senna | 50%
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| 2013 | 51 | Actor who starred as TV mobster Tony Soprano | James Gandolfini | 39%
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| c. 68 AD | ≈56 | Venice stole his remains from Alexandria and re-entombed them in their main cathedral | Saint Mark | 35%
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| 1822 | 29 | English Romantic poet who wrote "Ozymandias" | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 33%
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| 1821 | 25 | English Romantic poet who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | John Keats | 32%
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