| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| F | American industrialist and businessman who helped develop affordable cars | Henry Ford | 94%
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| E | English queen who defeated the Spanish Armada | Elizabeth I | 93%
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| A | Leader of the Huns known as the 'Scourge of God' for his brutal conquests | Attila the Hun | 86%
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| M | Liberated Jewish slaves from Egypt and allegedly parted the Red Sea | Moses | 86%
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| N | Emperor who supposedly fiddled whilst Rome burned | Nero | 86%
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| C | Guitarist and lead singer of Nirvana | Kurt Cobain | 84%
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| T | English author who wrote The Lord of the Rings | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | 83%
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| R | American oil tycoon considered the richest person in modern history | John D. Rockefeller | 67%
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| W | Former number one American golfer who was found guilty of drug driving in 2017 | Tiger Woods | 66%
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| H | Greek physician and the father of modern medicine | Hippocrates | 60%
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| K | German astronomer and astrologist known for his laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler | 44%
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| I | Norwegian playwright and poet dubbed 'The Father of Realism' | Henrik Ibsen | 38%
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| O | Two-time British Academy Award winner known for his Shakespearean roles | Laurence Olivier | 31%
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| G | Mexican leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache tribe | Geronimo | 29%
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| B | Irish avant-garde playwright and poet known for Waiting for Godot and Endgame | Samuel Beckett | 28%
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| Y | Lead singer of Radiohead know for his falsetto voice | Thom Yorke | 27%
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| P | American jazz saxophonist known as 'Bird' | Charlie Parker | 25%
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| Z | American director known for the Back to the Future trilogy and Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 22%
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| S | Roman general who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama | Scipio Africanus | 21%
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| Q | 10th century leader of the Toltec Aztecs, named after a Mesoamerican deity | Cē Acatl Tōpīltzin Quetzalcōātl | 20%
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| L | Austrian-born actress and inventor who developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedos | Hedy Lamarr | 17%
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| U | Pulitzer prize winner known for his 'Rabbit' series of novels | John Updike | 16%
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| V | King of the Arverni tribe who united the Gauls in revolt against the Romans in the Gallic Wars | Vercingetorix | 14%
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| X | Persian king and successor of Artaxerxes I | Xerxes II | 13%
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| D | First female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting | Bette Davis | 11%
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| J | One of the most successful female Olympic heptathlon athletes of all time | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 7%
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