| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Commissioner of the NBA since 2014 | Adam Silver | 100%
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| Senator from Minnesota since 2007 | Amy Klobuchar | 100%
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| Senator from Illinois from 1993 to 1999 and first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate | Carol Moseley Braun | 100%
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| Astronomer, a space telescope was named after him in recognition of his work | Edwin Hubble | 100%
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| Nobel Prize winning geneticist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA | James Watson | 100%
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| Former football player and first Heisman Trophy winner | Jay Berwanger | 100%
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| General manager of the Miami Marlins from 2021 to 2023 and first female GM of a team in the Big Four leagues of North America | Kim Ng | 100%
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| Writer, "Slaughterhouse-Five" | Kurt Vonnegut | 100%
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| Co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and first openly gay owner of a major-league sports team | Laura Ricketts | 100%
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| Economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered one of the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics | Milton Friedman | 100%
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| Senator from Nebraska since 2023 and Governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023 | Pete Ricketts | 100%
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| Chairman of the Chicago Cubs | Thomas Ricketts | 100%
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| Actress best known for her roles as Vada Sultenfuss in "My Girl" and Amy Brookheimer in "Veep" | Anna Chlumsky | 67%
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| Director of National Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 | Avril Haines | 67%
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| Senator from Vermont since 2007 who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020 | Bernie Sanders | 67%
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| Astronomer, narrator of "Cosmos", author of popular science books and the science-fiction novel "Contact" | Carl Sagan | 67%
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| Owner of the Baltimore Orioles | David Rubenstein | 67%
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| Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone, portrayed by Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables" | Eliot Ness | 67%
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| "The father of modern finance" who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | Eugene Fama | 67%
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| Co-founder of Pinterest | Evan Sharp | 67%
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| "Father of modern portfolo theory" who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | Harry Markowitz | 67%
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| Governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2017 | Jack Markell | 67%
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| Director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017 | James Comey | 67%
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| Founder of McKinsey | James O. McKinsey | 67%
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| Senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007 | Jim Talent | 67%
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| Attorney General from 2001 to 2005, Senator from Missouri from 1995 to 2001 and Governor of Missouri from 1985 to 1993 | John Ashcroft | 67%
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| Associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010 | John Paul Stevens | 67%
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| Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010 and Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 | Jon Corzine | 67%
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| Co-founder of Oracle and one of the wealthiest people in the world | Larry Ellison | 67%
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| Director, "The Graduate" "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Catch-22" | Mike Nichols | 67%
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| Actor best known for his role as Castiel in "Supernatural" | Misha Collins | 67%
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| Writer, "A River Runs Through It" | Norman Maclean | 67%
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| Economist and first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | Paul Samuelson | 67%
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| President of the World Bank from 2005 to 2007 and United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 | Paul Wolfowitz | 67%
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| Director, "The Unbearbale Lightness of Being" "The Right Stuff" | Philip Kaufman | 67%
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| Writer, "Goodbye, Columbus" "Portnoy's Complaint" "The Human Stain" | Philip Roth | 67%
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| Film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 to 2013 and first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize | Roger Ebert | 67%
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| CEO of Microsoft since 2014 | Satya Nadella | 67%
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| Writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "Henderson the Rain King" "The Adventures of Augie March" "Humboldt's Gift" | Saul Bellow | 67%
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| Senator from Indiana since 2017 | Todd Young | 67%
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| Prime Minister of Canada from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930 and 1935 to 1948 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | 67%
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| Premier of Taiwan from 1990 to 1993 and Vice President of Taiwan from 1996 to 2000 | Lien Chan | 33%
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