100 Most Important People in History - Statistics

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

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