| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| M | Chairman of communist China | Mao Zedong | 91%
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| V | Dutch painter who cut off his own ear | Vincent van Gogh | 90%
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| J | Female fighter in the Hundred Years' War | Joan of Arc | 87%
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| P | Greek philosopher who spoke of shadows on a cave wall | Plato | 77%
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| R | Russian advisor to Nicholas II, assassinated in 1916 | Rasputin | 75%
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| F | Gunpowder plotter of 1605 | Guy Fawkes | 74%
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| N | German philosopher who famously claimed God is dead | Friedrich Nietzsche | 72%
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| A | Dictator of Uganda | Idi Amin | 69%
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| O | Greek shipping magnate and second husband of Jacqueline Bouvier | Aristotle Onassis | 65%
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| T | First black Archbishop of Cape Town | Desmond Tutu | 61%
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| E | Co-author of "The Communist Manifesto" | Friedrich Engels | 61%
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| H | Author of "A Farewell to Arms" | Ernest Hemingway | 58%
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| W | General who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo | Arthur Wellesley | 56%
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| Q | Vice President to George Bush | Dan Quayle | 52%
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| L | Scottish explorer of Africa during the 19th century | David Livingstone | 52%
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| Y | He brought the Mormons to Utah | Brigham Young | 49%
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| G | French painter who traveled to Tahiti | Paul Gauguin | 49%
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| S | Author of "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith | 45%
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| B | She played the female lead in "Casablanca" | Ingrid Bergman | 44%
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| Z | A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 | Emiliano Zapata | 38%
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| D | President of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War | Jefferson Davis | 38%
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| X | Co-founder of the Jesuit order | Francis Xavier | 34%
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| K | Australia's most famous "bushranger" | Ned Kelly | 27%
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| C | Poet who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 27%
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| I | Writer who created Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman | Washington Irving | 27%
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| U | Bathesheba's unlucky husband (Biblical) | {Uriah} the Hittite | 18%
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