| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Second President of the United States and Founding Father | John Adams | 92%
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| Sixth President of the United States and son of the above | John Quincy Adams | 92%
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| 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 | Barack Obama | 85%
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| 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 85%
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| 35th President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963 | John F. Kennedy | 85%
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| First lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 | Michelle Obama | 85%
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| United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968 | Robert F. Kennedy | 85%
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| Secretary of Health since 2025, anti-vaccine activist and independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 85%
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| 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 and first American to ever win a Nobel Prize | Theodore Roosevelt | 85%
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| Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest person in the world | Bill Gates | 77%
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| 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 | George W. Bush | 77%
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| Physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, "Father of the atomic bomb" | J. Robert Oppenheimer | 77%
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| Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and Democratic presidential nominee for the 2000 election | Al Gore | 69%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018 | Anthony Kennedy | 69%
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| Co-founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta | Mark Zuckerberg | 69%
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| Basketball player who was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA and sparked the phenomenon known as "Linsanity" during his time with the New York Knicks | Jeremy Lin | 62%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 62%
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| 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 62%
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| Actor, "Men in Black" "The Fugitive" "No Country for Old Men" | Tommy Lee Jones | 62%
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| Prime Minister of Israel since 2022 (previously from 1996 to 1999 and 2009 to 2021) | Benjamin Netanyahu | 54%
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| United States Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 who received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam | Henry Kissinger | 54%
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| 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005 | John Roberts | 54%
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| Actor, "Good Will Hunting" "The Departed" "The Martian" | Matt Damon | 54%
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| President of Taiwan from 2008 to 2016 | Ma Ying-jeou | 54%
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| Actress, "The Office" "Parks and Recreation" "Boston Public" | Rashida Jones | 54%
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| Disability rights and political activist and first deafblind person in the U.S. to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree | Helen Keller | 46%
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| Banker and co-founder of Morgan Stanley | Henry Sturgis Morgan | 46%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2022 and first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court | Ketanji Brown Jackson | 46%
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| Writer, "The Handmaid's Tale" | Margaret Atwood | 46%
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| Senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025, Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and Republican Party's nominee for president in the 2012 election | Mitt Romney | 46%
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| Actress, "Léon: The Professional" "Star Wars" prequels "Black Swan" "Thor" | Natalie Portman | 46%
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| Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984 | Pierre Trudeau | 46%
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| Actor, "The Princess Bride" "Marriage Story" "Young Sheldon" | Wallace Shawn | 46%
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| South Korean politician and secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016 | Ban Ki-moon | 38%
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| Senator from New York since 1999 and Senate Majority Leader since 2021 | Chuck Schumer | 38%
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| United States Attorney General from 1993 to 2001 | Janet Reno | 38%
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| Senior Advistor to the President from 2017 to 2021 (and his son-in-law) | Jared Kushner | 38%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016 | Antonin Scalia | 31%
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| Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996. First woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. | Benazir Bhutto | 31%
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| Late-night talk show who hosted the "Late Night" from 1993 to 2009, NBC's "The Tonight Show" from 2009 to 2010 and his own show on TBS from 2010 to 2021 | Conan O'Brien | 31%
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| Brazilian billionaire and co-founder of Facebook | Eduardo Saverin | 31%
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| Essayist, philosopher and leading transcendentalist best known for his book "Walden" and the essay "Civil Disobedeience" | Henry David Thoreau | 31%
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| Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 | Michael Bloomberg | 31%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2017 | Neil Gorsuch | 31%
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| Secretary of Defense since 2025 and former television presenter ("Fox & Friends" from 2017 to 2024) | Pete Hegseth | 31%
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| Governor of Florida since 2019 | Ron DeSantis | 31%
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| Former White House's chief strategist in the Trump administration and former executive chairman of Breitbart News | Steve Bannon | 31%
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| First president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 | Syngman Rhee | 31%
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| Senator from Texas since 2013 | Ted Cruz | 31%
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| United States Secreaty of State from 2021 to 2025 | Antony Blinken | 23%
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| Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014 who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | Ben Bernanke | 23%
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| Actor best known for his role as Ryan Howard in "The Office" | B. J. Novak | 23%
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| Governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023 and President of the NCAA since 2023 | Charlie Baker | 23%
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| Director, "La La Land" "Whiplash" "Babylon" | Damien Chazelle | 23%
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| Director, "Black Swan" "Requiem for a Dream" "The Whale" | Darren Aronofsky | 23%
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| Co-founder of Facebook and the youngest self-made billionaire in the world | Dustin Moskovitz | 23%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010 | Elena Kagan | 23%
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| Actress, "Leaving Las Vegas" "The Karate Kid" "Back to the Future II" | Elisabeth Shue | 23%
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| Biochemist who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" | Jennifer Doudna | 23%
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| Actor, "3rd Rock from the Sun" "The Crown" "The World According to Garp" | John Lithgow | 23%
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| Senator from Virginia since 2009 and Governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 | Mark Warner | 23%
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| United States Attorney General from 2021 to 2025 | Merrick Garland | 23%
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| Actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Mighty Aphrodite" | Mira Sorvino | 23%
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| Governor of New Jersey since 2018 | Phil Murphy | 23%
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| CEO of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots | Robert Kraft | 23%
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| United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 and President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981 | Robert McNamara | 23%
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| Senator from Arizona since 2025 | Ruben Gallego | 23%
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| Director, "The Tree of Life" "The Thin Red Line" "Badlands" | Terrence Malick | 23%
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| Senator from Virginia since 2013, Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010 and Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2016 election | Tim Kaine | 23%
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| Poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "The Waste Land" "Murder in the Cathedral" | T. S. Eliot | 23%
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| Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018 | Al Franken | 15%
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| Poet who rose to fame for delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden | Amanda Gorman | 15%
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| Legal scholar and writer, known for her parenting memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" | Amy Chua | 15%
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| Actress, "Heat" "Double Jeopardy" "A Time to Kill" | Ashley Judd | 15%
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| His show at Fox News Channel from 1996 until 2017 had been the highest-rated cable news show at the time | Bill O'Reilly | 15%
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| Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005 and Governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 | Bob Graham | 15%
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| Mathematician and philosopher who is known as "the father of pragmatism" | Charles Sanders Peirce | 15%
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| Senator from Maryland since 2017 | Chris Van Hollen | 15%
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| Senator from Alaska since 2015 | Dan Sullivan | 15%
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| President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018 and first elected female head of state in Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 15%
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| United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009 and former CEO of Goldman Sachs | Henry Paulson | 15%
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| Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017 and White House Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2013 | Jack Lew | 15%
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| Senator from Rhode Island since 1997 | Jack Reed | 15%
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| Co-founder and CEO of Fitbit | James Park | 15%
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| United States Secretary of Energy from 2021 to 2025 and Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 | Jennifer Granholm | 15%
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| Senator from Pennsylvania since 2023 | John Fetterman | 15%
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| Prime Minister of Canada since 2025 | Mark Carney | 15%
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| Presidnet of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and first woman to hold this office | Mary Robinson | 15%
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| Writer and filmmaker, "Jurassic Park" and creator of "ER" | Michael Crichton | 15%
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| Governor of Indiana since 2025 and Senator from Indiana from 2019 to 2025 | Mike Braun | 15%
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| Senator from Idaho since 1999 | Mike Crapo | 15%
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| Co-founder of Airbnb | Nathan Blecharczyk | 15%
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| Governor of Connecticut since 2019 | Ned Lamont | 15%
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| Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who is responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics | Philip W. Anderson | 15%
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| Essayist, philosopher, poet and leader of the transcendentalist movement | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 15%
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| Commissioner of Baseball since 2015 | Rob Manfred | 15%
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| Co-founder of Southwest Airlines | Rollin King | 15%
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| President of Israel from 2007 to 2014 who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Oslo Accords peace talks | Shimon Peres | 15%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1994 to 2022 | Stephen Breyer | 15%
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| CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014 and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers | Steve Ballmer | 15%
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| First President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 | Syngman Rhee | 15%
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| Senator from Arkansas since 2015 | Tom Cotton | 15%
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| Author of the "Earthsea" series | Ursula K. Le Guin | 15%
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| Prime Minister of Canada from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930 and 1935 to 1948 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | 15%
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| Chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 and associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986 | William Rehnquist | 15%
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| President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010 | Álvaro Uribe | 8%
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| General manager of the Cleveland Browns since 2020 | Andrew Berry | 8%
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| Prime minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015 | Antonis Samaras | 8%
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| Senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023 | Ben Sasse | 8%
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| Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007 and Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007 | Bill Frist | 8%
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| King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001 | Birendra | 8%
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| Governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019 | Bruce Rauner | 8%
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| Senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015 | Carl Levin | 8%
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| President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | 8%
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| Governor of Rhode Island since 2021 | Dan McKee | 8%
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| Senator from Louisiana from 2005 to 2017 | David Vitter | 8%
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| Actor best known for his role as Hank Schrader in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" | Dean Norris | 8%
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| Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015 | Deval Patrick | 8%
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| Director, "The Last Samurai" "Legends of the Fall" "Blood Diamond" | Edward Zwick | 8%
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| Senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009 | Elizabeth Dole | 8%
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| President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 | Felipe Calderón | 8%
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| King of Denmark since 2024 | Frederik | 8%
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| Governor of Virginia since 2022 | Glenn Youngkin | 8%
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| Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986-1989 and 1990-1996) and Director-General of the WHO from 1998 to 2003 | Gro Harlem Brundtland | 8%
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| Senator from Vermont from 1989 to 2007 | Jim Jeffords | 8%
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| Senator from New Hampshire from 2003 to 2009 | John E. Sununu | 8%
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| Governor of North Carolina since 2025 | Josh Stein | 8%
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| President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 who received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize | Juan Manuel Santos | 8%
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| Author of the "Bridgerton" series of novels | Julia Quinn | 8%
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| Academy Award film composer, "La La Land" "Whiplash" "Babylon" | Justin Hurwitz | 8%
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| Belgian jurist and President of the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2015 | Koen Lenaerts | 8%
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| Prime minister of Greece since 2019 | Kyriakos Mitsotakis | 8%
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| Co-founder of Staples and pioneer of the natural food supermarket industry | Leo Kahn | 8%
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| Conductor and composer, "West Side Story" | Leonard Bernstein | 8%
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| Associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 who helped develop the "right to privacy" | Louis Brandeis | 8%
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| Governor of Massachusetts since 2023 | Maura Healey | 8%
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| Creator of "The Good Place", co-creator of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and writer for "The Office" | Michael Schur | 8%
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| Prime Minister of Hungary from 1988 to 1990 and last Communist Prime Minister of Hungary | Miklós Németh | 8%
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| Economist and first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | Paul Samuelson | 8%
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| Senator from Maryland from 1977 to 2007 | Paul Sarbanes | 8%
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| Diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his 1940s mediation in Israel and first black Nobel laureate | Ralph Bunche | 8%
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| Senator from Connecticut since 2011 | Richard Blumenthal | 8%
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| Former quarterback who started for nine different teams, the most in NFL history, and spent 17 seasons in the NFL | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 8%
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| Presient of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022 | Sebastián Piñera | 8%
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| Co-founder of Staples | Thomas G. Stemberg | 8%
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| Founder of Electronic Arts | Trip Hawkins | 8%
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| Pan-Africanist civil rights activist and first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard | W. E. B. Du Bois | 8%
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