Stats: Top 100 most important and famous people from Italy

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Scientist, inventor and painter of Mona Lisa and Last Supper	Leonardo da Vinci/Leonardo	97%
Sculptor of David and La Pietà and painter	Michelangelo Buonarroti/Michelangelo	97%
Founder of Fascism and Duce of Italy from 1922 to 1945	Benito Mussolini	92%
The most important poet of the Italian literature, author of Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri/Dante	84%
Painter of The School of Athens and others Vatican Rooms	Raffaello Sanzio/Raffaello/Raphael	83%
Explorer, in 1492 discovered a new continent	Cristoforo Colombo/Columbus	82%
Politician and media tycoon, four time prime minister	Silvio Berlusconi	81%
One of the most famous tenor, died in 2007	Luciano Pavarotti	78%
Actress, winner of one Academy Award for best actress in 1962	Sophia Loren	77%
Venetian explorer who travelled through Asia	Marco Polo	76%
Astronomer and physicist of XVII century, father of modern science	Galileo Galilei	75%
Explorer and navigator, term America is derived from his name	Amerigo Vespucci	74%
Composer and violinist, author of The Four Seasons	Antonio Vivaldi	74%
Lord of Florence and one of the most important figure of Reinassence	Lorenzo de Medici	72%
Painter of Primavera and The Birth of Venus	Sandro Botticelli	71%
General and patriot, contributed to Italian Unification	Giuseppe Garibaldi	69%
Founder of one of the most important world fashion company, killed in Miami	Giovanni Versace	66%
Motorcycle racer seven times winner of MotoGP	Valentino Rossi	66%
Composer of XIX century, author of Aida	Giuseppe Verdi	65%
Philosopher and writer considered the father of political science	Niccolò Machiavelli	63%
Sculptor considered one of the fathers of Renaissance	Donatello	62%
First King of Italy	Vittorio Emanuele II/Victor Emmanuel II	62%
Founder of the most successful team in Formula 1 history	Enzo Ferrari	61%
Writer of XX century, author of The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	61%
Composer of many soundtracks for Hollywood movie, died in 2020	Ennio Morricone	60%
Inventor and engineer, known for the creation of wireless telegraph system	Guglielmo Marconi	60%
Actor and director, winner of one Academy Award for best actor in 1997 for Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni	60%
Tenor and singer, became blind at the age of 12	Andrea Bocelli	59%
Director of La Dolce Vita and Otto e Mezzo	Federico Fellini	58%
Poet of the Middle Ages, author of The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	58%
Physicist of XX century, creator of the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	55%
Founder of one of the most important world fashion company	Giorgio Armani	55%
Composer of XIX century, author of Tosca	Giacomo Puccini	54%
One of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, world champion in 2006	Gianluigi Buffon	54%
Friar and mystic of XII/XIII century, one of the most venerated saints of Catholic Church	San Francesco d'Assisi/Saint Francis	53%
Director and pioneer of the Spaghetti Western genre	Sergio Leone	52%
Physicist and chemist inventor of electric battery	Alessandro Volta	51%
The most important painter of the Italian Middle Ages, author of the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel	Giotto	50%
Captain of AC Milan, five times Champions League winner	Paolo Maldini	49%
One of the greatest Italian footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1993	Roberto Baggio	48%
Author of the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	47%
Painter of Medusa and Conversion on the Way to Damascus	Caravaggio	46%
Architect of Florence Cathedral	Filippo Brunelleschi	46%
Third King of Italy reigned from 1900 to 1946	Vittorio Emanuele III/Victor Emmanuel III	46%
Composer of XIX century, author of The Barber of Seville	Gioacchino Rossini	43%
Former Italian Prime Minister and former president of European Central Bank	Mario Draghi	43%
Poet of the Middle Ages, author of Il Canzoniere	Francesco Petrarca	42%
Philosopher burned at the stake in 1600	Giordano Bruno	38%
Priest and mystic of XX century, saint of Catholic Church	Padre Pio/San Pio/Saint Pius	38%
Architect of Saint Peter's Square and Quirinal Palace	Gian Lorenzo Bernini	37%
Violinist and composer, the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time	Niccolò Paganini	36%
Writer and Holocaust survivor, author of If This Is a Man	Primo Levi	36%
Prosecuting magistrates killed by Mafia in 1992 near Palermo	Giovanni Falcone/Paolo Borsellino	35%
Playwright of XX century, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, author of The Late Mattia Pascal	Luigi Pirandello	34%
Fashion model and actress, sex symbol of 1990s and 2000s	Monica Bellucci	34%
First Italian Prime Minister	Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour	33%
Poet of XIX century, author of L'Infinito and A Silvia	Giacomo Leopardi	33%
Actor and sex symbol of the 1920s dead at the age of 31	Rodolfo Valentino	33%
Female singer, her most famous album sold three million copies worldwide	Laura Pausini	32%
The most popular Italian comedian, symbol of Neapolitan comedy	Totò	32%
Marxist Philosopher and politician death in prison in 1937	Antonio Gramsci	31%
Actor, with three nominations for Academy Award in 1963, 1977 and 1988	Marcello Mastroianni	31%
Director of Bicycle Thieves and Shoeshine	Vittorio De Sica	31%
Politician of Christian Democracy, prime minister from 1945 to 1953	Alcide de Gasperi	30%
Poet of XX century, nicknamed Vate, symbol of the Italian patriotism	Gabriele D'Annunzio	29%
Poet of Reinassence, author of Orlando Furioso	Ludovico Ariosto	29%
Writer and poet, author of I Promessi Sposi(The Betrothed)	Alessandro Manzoni	28%
Sculptor of Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss and Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix	Antonio Canova	28%
Architect of Pompidou Centre and The Shard	Renzo Piano	28%
Pop singer famous in Europe and Spanish speaking world, winner of Sanremo Festival in 1986	Eros Ramazzotti	27%
One of the most important politician and journalist for the unification of Italy, founder of the political movement Young Italy	Giuseppe Mazzini	27%
Partisan and politician who served as Italian President from 1978 to 1985	Sandro Pertini	27%
Friar and philosopher of scholasticism of XIII, saint of Catholic Church	San Tommaso d'Aquino/Saint Thomas	27%
One of the most important tenor of early XX century	Enrico Caruso	26%
Poet and director of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom and Accattone	Pier Paolo Pasolini	26%
Woman, mystic of XIV century, saint of Catholic Church	Santa Caterina da Siena/Saint Catherine	26%
Politician who served as Prime Minister seven times, leader of Christian Democracy	Giulio Andreotti	25%
Sprinter, winners of gold medal in 100m in 2020 Olympic Games	Marcell Jacobs	25%
Singer four time winners of Sanremo Festival, author of Nel blu dipinto di blu	Domenico Modugno	24%
Painter of Equestrian Portrait of Charles V and Venus of Urbino	Tiziano Vecellio/Tiziano	24%
Poet of XX century, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1975, author of Ossi di seppia	Eugenio Montale	22%
Pope who announced the Second Vatican Council	Giovanni XXIII/John XXIII	22%
One of the most important poets of Neoclassicismo, born in Zante	Ugo Foscolo	22%
Director of Suspiria, known as Master of Horror	Dario Argento	21%
Actor and comedian, symbol of Roman comedy	Alberto Sordi	20%
The greatest Italian cyclist, two times winner of Tour de France and five times winner of Giro d'Italia	Fausto Coppi	20%
Poet famous for his poems about World War One	Giuseppe Ungaretti	20%
First italian poet to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1906	Giosue Carducci	19%
Navigator who explored the coast of North America	Giovanni Caboto/Cabot	19%
One of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, father of modern criminal law, who condemned death penalty and torture	Cesare Beccaria	18%
Decadent poet, author of Il Fanciullino	Giovanni Pascoli	18%
Actress, winner of one Academy Award for best actress in 1956	Anna Magnani	17%
Venetian playwright of XVIII author of The Mistress of the Inn	Carlo Goldoni	17%
Singer and actress, dominant figure in Italian music 1960s and 1970s	Mina	17%
Politician and leader of Italian Communist Party after World War Two	Palmiro Togliatti	17%
Politician who served as Prime Minister five times from 1892 and 1928	Giovanni Giolitti	16%
Neurobiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1986	Rita Levi-Montalcini	16%
One of the greatest conductor of XX century	Arturo Toscanini	10%
Actor, played as main character in Big Deal on Madonna Street	Vittorio Gassman	10%
Idealist philosopher, liberal politician and historian of early XX century	Benedetto Croce	7%

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