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100 Most Significant Figures in American History - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 598 times
- The average score is 51 of 100
Answer Stats
| Hint | % Correct | ||
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| Trailblazers | 1492 | Christopher Columbus | 95%
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| Strong Women | The first First Lady | Martha Washington | 95%
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| Presidents | First President | George Washington | 94%
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| Political Rebels | "I Have a Dream..." | Martin Luther King Jr. | 94%
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| Presidents | "New Deal", WWII | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 92%
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| Trailblazers | Went to the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 92%
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| Pop Culture Icons | Jazz Trumpeteer, Singer and Actor | Louis Armstrong | 91%
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| Presidents | Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 91%
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| Presidents | Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln | 90%
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| Strong Women | First Lady During WWII | Eleanor Roosevelt | 89%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "Thriller" | Michael Jackson | 89%
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| Presidents | Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt | 87%
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| Empire-Builders | Mickey Mouse | Walt Disney | 86%
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| Empire-Builders | Microsoft | Bill Gates | 85%
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| Presidents | "War on Terror" | George W. Bush | 85%
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| Political Rebels | Confederate General | Robert E. Lee | 82%
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| Empire-Builders | Light Bulb | Thomas Alva Edison | 81%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "Jailhouse Rock" | Elvis Presley | 80%
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| Pop Culture Icons | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 80%
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| Presidents | Cold War, Iran-Contra | Ronald W. Reagan | 80%
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| Presidents | Union General | Ulysses S. Grant | 80%
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| Athletes | Governator of California | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 79%
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| Athletes | Won "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match | Billie Jean King | 79%
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| Trailblazers | Namesake river in NY | Henry Hudson | 78%
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| Trailblazers | Jamestown | John Smith | 78%
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| Religious Figures | Latter Day Saints | Joseph Smith Jr. | 78%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "Like a Virgin" | Madonna | 78%
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| Strong Women | First Female President? | Hillary Clinton | 77%
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| Outlaws | Lincoln's Assassin | John Wilkes Booth | 76%
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| Strong Women | Deaf-Blind Author-Activist | Helen Keller | 75%
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| Empire-Builders | Standard Oil | John D. Rockefeller | 74%
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| Pop Culture Icons | Mustachioed silent actor | Charlie Chaplin | 72%
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| Trailblazers | Corps of Discovery | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | 71%
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| Athletes | The Great Bambino | Babe Ruth | 70%
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| Presidents | US Constitution | James Madison | 70%
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| Empire-Builders | Detroit | Henry Ford | 69%
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| Presidents | League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson | 69%
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| Athletes | Chicago Bulls | Michael Jordan | 67%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "Some Like It Hot" | Marilyn Monroe | 65%
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| Athletes | "Rumble in the Jungle" | Muhammad Ali | 65%
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| Artists | Campbell's Soup Can | Andy Warhol | 63%
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| Outlaws | Revolutionary War Traitor | Benedict Arnold | 62%
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| Strong Women | Hull House | Jane Addams | 62%
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| Athletes | Broke baseball's color barrier | Jackie Robinson | 61%
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| Strong Women | McCain's VP candidate | Sarah Palin | 59%
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| Political Rebels | Women's Suffrage Leaders | Susan B. Anthony | 58%
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| Outlaws | St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone | 57%
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| Outlaws | Shot by the coward, Ford | Jesse James | 57%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "Purple Haze" | Jimi Hendrix | 57%
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| Empire-Builders | US Steel | Andrew Carnegie | 56%
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| Pop Culture Icons | Ol' Blue Eyes | Frank Sinatra | 56%
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| Trailblazers | Native American Guide | Sacagawea | 55%
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| Political Rebels | "Common Sense" | Thomas Paine | 55%
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| Outlaws | Dallas, TX Sniper | Lee Harvey Oswald | 54%
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| Religious Figures | Created Salt Lake City | Brigham Young | 53%
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| Political Rebels | Seized Harper's Ferry | John Brown | 51%
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| Religious Figures | Founded the "Quaker State" | William Penn | 50%
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| Outlaws | "Helter Skelter" | Charles Manson | 44%
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| Political Rebels | Lakota Holy Man | Sitting Bull | 42%
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| Political Rebels | Narrative of the Life of an American Slave | Frederick Douglass | 40%
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| Religious Figures | Scientology | L. Ron Hubbard | 38%
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| Artists | Drip Painting | Jackson Pollock | 37%
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| Trailblazers | Defined the "New World" | Amerigo Vespucci | 36%
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| Athletes | WWF Wrestler | Hulk Hogan | 36%
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| Athletes | Invented Basketball | James Naismith | 36%
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| Strong Women | Jamestown, English Court | Pocahontas | 35%
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| Artists | "Prairie School" Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright | 33%
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| Strong Women | Actress, All About Eve | Bette Davis | 32%
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| Pop Culture Icons | "All Along the Watchtowers" | Bob Dylan | 32%
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| Artists | Painted flowers & the Southwest | Georgia O’Keeffe | 32%
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| Empire-Builders | The "Spruce Goose" | Howard Hughes | 30%
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| Empire-Builders | NY Central Railroad | Cornelius Vanderbilt | 29%
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| Empire-Builders | Yellow Journalism | William Randolph Hearst | 28%
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| Political Rebels | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 27%
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| Athletes | Native American Olympian and pro footballer, basketballer | Jim Thorpe | 25%
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| Political Rebels | Founded NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois | 25%
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| Religious Figures | Free Will Baptist Movement | Roger Williams | 23%
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| Strong Women | Ain't I a Woman? activist | Sojourner Truth | 22%
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| Outlaws | Lincoln County War | Billy the Kid | 20%
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| Trailblazers | The Sierra Club | John Muir | 20%
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| Religious Figures | Christian Science | Mary Baker Eddy | 20%
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| Athletes | The Georgia Peach | Ty Cobb | 20%
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| Outlaws | His exploits helped create the FBI | John Dillinger | 19%
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| Empire-Builders | General Electric | J.P. Morgan | 18%
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| Outlaws | Tammany Hall | William M. “Boss” Tweed | 18%
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| Artists | The Birds of America | John James Audubon | 17%
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| Strong Women | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 15%
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| Religious Figures | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards | 13%
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| Political Rebels | Leader of the Shawnee | Tecumseh | 13%
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| Trailblazers | Explorer of the West | Kit Carson | 10%
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| Religious Figures | Banished from Massachusetts | Anne Hutchinson | 7%
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| Religious Figures | Salem Witch Trials | Cotton Mather | 7%
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| Artists | Created modern Santa Claus | Thomas Nast | 7%
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| Outlaws | Dead Man's Hand | Wild Bill Hickok | 7%
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| Artists | "Art for Art's Sake" Painter | James A. M. Whistler | 5%
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| Religious Figures | 7th Day Adventist | Ellen G. White | 4%
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| Artists | Landscape Architecture | Frederick Law Olmsted | 4%
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| Trailblazers | Explored the Atlantic Coast | Giovanni da Verrazzano | 4%
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| Artists | Photographer, married to above | Alfred Stieglitz | 3%
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| Artists | Philadelphia art teacher | Thomas Eakins | 1%
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