| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 | Nelson Mandela | 100%
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| Business magnate, Space X, Tesla | Elon Musk | 91%
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| Bishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996 | Desmond Tutu | 83%
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| Actress, famous for her roles in The Devil's Advocate and Mighty Joe Young, winner of Academy Award in 2004 | Charlize Theron | 61%
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| Last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 | F. W. de Klerk | 61%
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| Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation | Christiaan Barnard | 39%
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| Female writer, author of Burger's Daughter and July's People, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | 26%
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| Writer, author of Elizabeth Costello and The Childhood of Jesus, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | 22%
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| Golf player, who won all four majors in his career | Gary Player | 17%
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| Virologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever | Max Theiler | 0%
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