| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D | American animator and who created many characters including Mickey Mouse and Dumbo | Walt Disney | 95%
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| M | South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and later President of South Africa | Nelson Mandela | 93%
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| J | Iconic front man and co-founder of The Rolling Stones | Mick Jagger | 81%
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| L | Longest reigning monarch in European history, known as the 'Sun King' | Louis XIV | 80%
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| N | Founder of modern nursing known as the 'Lady of the Lamp' | Florence Nightingale | 75%
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| P | First Lady of Argentina immortalised in the musical Evita | Eva Peron | 69%
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| W | The last German emperor who abdicated as King of Prussia in 1918 | Wilhelm II | 68%
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| G | Leader of the French resistance during Nazi occupation, and later founder and president of the Fifth Republic | Charles de Gaulle | 67%
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| H | Top SS member and proponent of the Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler | 65%
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| E | Ancient Greek mathematician known as the 'Father of Geometry' | Euclid | 63%
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| B | Italian Renaissance artist who painted 'The Birth of Venus' | Sandro Botticelli | 63%
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| C | Middle Ages poet dubbed the 'Father of English Literature', known for The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 60%
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| K | Cold War Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev | 60%
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| X | Seventh president of China known for his restrictions on civil liberty | Xi Jinping | 60%
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| F | Influential soul singer of the 60s and 70s who sold over 75 million records worldwide | Aretha Franklin | 56%
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| S | American rock singer, known by his moniker 'The Boss' | Bruce Springsteen | 55%
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| V | American actor and comedian known for his roles in Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Dick Van Dyke | 48%
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| A | Post-war Labour prime minister of the United Kingdom | Clement Attlee | 44%
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| Q | Norwegian prime minister who collaborated with the Nazis in WWII | Vidkun Quisling | 42%
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| R | Egyptian pharaoh who led conquests into Nubia and the Levant | Ramesses II | 39%
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| U | English actress whose eponymous show first featured shorts of the The Simpsons | Tracey Ullman | 28%
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| Y | Canadian musician and founder of Buffalo Springfield | Neil Young | 23%
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| O | British WW1 soldier and poet | Wilfred Owen | 23%
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| T | Japanese shogun who established his clan's dominance over Kyoto for over 200 years | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 14%
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| Z | Russian-American physicist who introduced the idea of quarks to the Standard Model of particle physics | George Zweig | 2%
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| I | Discovered photosynthesis in plants | Jan Ingenhousz | 2%
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