| Letter | Description | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | General who took elephants across the Alps. | Hannibal | 100%
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| A | Mathematician and engineer who discovered a law about buoyancy and created several defensive war machines to defend Syracuse. | Archimedes | 80%
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| E | Mathematician often called the "father of geometry". | Euclid | 80%
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| B | Celtic queen who led an uprising against the Romans in 60 or 61 AD. | Boudica | 73%
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| I | Chancellor and priest who designed the first Egyptian pyramid. | Imhotep | 67%
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| R | Pharaoh who fought the Hittites at Kadesh. | Ramesses the Great | 67%
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| C | Founder of the Achaemenid Empire. | Cyrus the Great | 60%
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| L | Philosopher credited with writing Tao Te Ching. | Laozi | 53%
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| Q | Leader who unified all of China in 221 BC. | Qin Shi Huang | 53%
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| J | Prophet who authored the Book of Kings and the Book of Lamentations. | Jeremiah | 47%
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| K | Pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza. | Khufu | 40%
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| G | The birth name of the Buddha. | Siddhārtha Gautama | 40%
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| Z | Founder of the official religion of the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires. | Zoroaster | 40%
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| D | Roman emperor who farmed cabbages during his retirement. | Diocletian | 33%
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| N | Babylonian king who ordered the construction of the Ishtar Gate and the reconstruction of Etemenanki. | Nebuchadnezzar II | 33%
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| S | First ruler of the Akkadian Empire. | Sargon the Great | 27%
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| V | Gallic king who surrendered to Julius Caesar in 52 BC. | Vercingetorix | 27%
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| W | The only emperor of the Xin dynasty. | Wang Mang | 27%
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| O | Soldier who deposed the last Western Roman emperor and became the first King of Italy. | Odoacer | 20%
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| X | Athenian philosopher who wrote Anabasis and Cyropaedia, and who was one of the leaders of the mercenary force called the Ten Thousand. | Xenophon | 13%
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| P | Sculptor who created the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. | Phidias | 7%
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| F | Statesman of the Roman Republic who was a dictator in 221 and 217 BC. | Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus | 7%
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| Y | A prominent disciple of Confucius, and the only known disciple from the south of China. | Yan Yan | 7%
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| M | Wrestler who supposedly died when he trapped his hands in a tree he was trying to tear apart, and was then eaten by wolves. | Milo of Croton | 0%
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| T | Illyrian queen who killed an ambassador of the Roman Republic and besieged Corcyra. | Teuta | 0%
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| U | Founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur. | Ur-Nammu | 0%
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