100 Most Important People in History - Statistics

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Number	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2.	Physicist (theory of relativity)	Albert Einstein	98%
1.	Physicist, mathematician (laws of motion, gravity)	Isaac Newton	97%
3.	Biologist (theory of evolution)	Charles Darwin	96%
13.	First U.S. president	George Washington	95%
21.	Central figure of Christianity	Jesus Christ	93%
35.	Philosopher, founder of Marxism	Karl Marx	93%
15.	U.S. president, abolished slavery	Abraham Lincoln	92%
16.	Leader of Indian independence movement	Mahatma Gandhi	92%
12.	Macedonian conqueror	Alexander the Great	91%
10.	Inventor, artist, polymath	Leonardo da Vinci	91%
17.	British WWII leader	Winston Churchill	91%
51.	Opened the Americas to Europe	Christopher Columbus	90%
66.	Founder of the People's Republic of China	Mao Zedong	90%
27.	Leader of the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	90%
55.	First person on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	90%
31.	Philosopher, student of 33.	Plato	90%
11.	Roman general and dictator	Julius Caesar	89%
5.	Chemist, physicist (radioactivity)	Marie Skłodowska-Curie	89%
74.	Entrepreneur (SpaceX, Tesla)	Elon Musk	88%
48.	Composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	88%
33.	Greek philosopher	Socrates	88%
49.	Composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	88%
20.	WWII leader (noted for influence, though negative)	Adolf Hitler	87%
65.	Leader of the Russian Revolution	Lenin	87%
79.	Co-Founder of Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg	87%
22.	Founder of Isam	Muhammad	87%
14.	French emperor and general	Napoleon Bonaparte	87%
18.	Anti-apartheid revolutionary, South African president	Nelson Mandela	87%
71.	Founder of Ford Motor Company	Henry Ford	86%
72.	Co-Founder of Apple Inc.	Steve Jobs	86%
32.	Philosopher, student of 31.	Aristotle	85%
42.	Epic poet ("Iliad", Odyssey")	Homer	85%
45.	Sculptor, painter	Michelangelo	85%
41.	Playwright and poet	William Shakespeare	85%
73.	Co-Founder of Microsoft	Bill Gates	83%
81.	Founder of the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	83%
77.	Founder of Amazon	Jeff Bezos	83%
23.	Founder of Buddhism	Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)	81%
63.	French heroine	Joan of Arc	81%
53.	Venetian explorer	Marco Polo	81%
25.	Chinese philosopher	Confucius	79%
47.	Composer	Johann Sebastian Bach	79%
95.	Father of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	78%
86.	WWII general and U.S. president	Dwight D. Eisenhower	77%
4.	Astronomer, physicist	Galileo Galilei	77%
43.	Russian novelist ("War and Peace")	Leo Tolstoy	77%
93.	Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	75%
44.	Poet ("The Divine Comedy")	Dante Alighieri	74%
80.	Prolific inventor	Thomas Edison	74%
34.	Philosopher ("I think, therefore I am")	Rene Descartes	73%
62.	Liberated South America from Spanish rule	Simon Bolivar	72%
29.	Founder of Mormonism	Joseph Smith	70%
94.	Economist ("The Wealth of Nations")	Adam Smith	69%
24.	Key figure in Judaism and Christianity	Moses	69%
52.	First circumnavigation of the Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	68%
58.	Namesake of the Americas	Amerigo Vespucci	67%
7.	Inventor, electrical engineer	Nikola Tesla	67%
82.	Carthaginian general	Hannibal Barca	64%
9.	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	62%
100.	Climate activist	Greta Thunberg	62%
50.	Painter	Pablo Picasso	62%
89.	British naval hero	Admiral Nelson	61%
6.	Mathematician and computer scientist (pioneer of modern computing and artificial intelligence)	Alan Turing	61%
84.	Leader of the Huns	Attila the Hun	61%
54.	Connected Europe and India via sea	Vasco da Gama	61%
76.	Oil industry magnate	John D. Rockefeller	59%
46.	Painter	Vincent van Gogh	59%
85.	Norman king of England	William the Conqueror	59%
61.	Marxist revolutionary	Che Guevara	58%
91.	Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	57%
57.	British explorer	James Cook	57%
83.	Military strategist ("The Art of War")	Sun Tzu	57%
60.	Chinese explorer	Zheng He	56%
59.	Viking explorer	Leif Erikson	55%
8.	Improved the steam engine	James Watt	54%
68.	Civil rights activist	Rosa Parks	53%
88.	WWII and Korean War general	Douglas MacArthur	51%
28.	Founder of Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	48%
36.	Philosopher (natural rights)	John Locke	47%
39.	Philosopher	Immanuel Kant	45%
37.	Philosopher	Friedrich Nietzsche	41%
96.	Father of medicine	Hippocrates	40%
19.	Established English Renaissance	Queen Elizabeth I	40%
87.	U.S. WWII general	George Patton	38%
90.	Muslim military leader during the Crusades	Saladin	38%
78.	Entertainment pioneer	Walt Disney	38%
75.	Industrialist and philantropist	Andrew Carnegie	35%
69.	Women's suffrage advocate	Susan B. Anthony	33%
26.	Spread Christianity	Saint Paul	27%
98.	Physicist and cosmologist	Stephen Hawking	27%
38.	Philosopher	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	24%
40.	Dutch philosopher known for his works on ethics, metaphysics, and rationalism, emphasizing the unity of nature and God.	Baruch Spinoza	23%
70.	Women's rights activist	Emmeline Pankhurst	22%
97.	Inventor and actress	Hedy Lamarr	20%
64.	Haitian revolutionary	Touissant Louverture	20%
92.	Founder of the Red Cross	Clara Barton	15%
67.	Writer and political critic	George Orwell	13%
30.	Founder of Sikhism	Guru Nanak	9%
56.	Renowned traveler	Ibn Battuta	8%
99.	Advocate for education and women’s rights	Malala Yousafzai	8%

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