Stats: Top 100 most important and famous people from United States

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First President	George Washington	96%
President from 2009 to 2017	Barack Obama	95%
President from 2017 to 2021	Donald Trump	94%
President who abolished the slavery	Abraham Lincoln	93%
President killed in Dallas in 1963	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	93%
President from 2001 to 2009	George W. Bush	92%
Trumpeter and singer, What a Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	92%
Singer, named King of Pop, Beat It, Thriller	Michael Jackson	92%
First man to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	92%
President from 1901 to 1909	Theodore Roosevelt	92%
President, from 1933 to 1945 ideator of the New Deal	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	91%
President from 1993 to 2001	Bill Clinton	90%
Founder of Microsoft	Bill Gates	89%
Female tennis player, 23 times winner of Grand Slam titles	Serena Williams	89%
Composer of the soundtrack of Star Wars and Harry Potter, five times winner of Academy Award	John Williams	88%
Founder of Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg	88%
Basketball player, winner of Nba with Chicago Bulls	Michael Jordan	88%
Actor famous for his roles in Patch Adams and Dead Poets Society	Robin Williams	88%
Founder of Apple	Steve Jobs	88%
Founder of famous car brand and pioneer of Mass production	Henry Ford	87%
Actress and model, the most popular sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s	Marilyn Monroe	87%
Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement, killed in 1968	Martin Luther King	87%
The best boxer of all times and activist	Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay	87%
President of the Watergate scandal	Richard Nixon	87%
President of 1980s, Tear down this Wall!	Ronald Reagan	87%
Female singer, Think, Respect	Aretha Franklin	86%
Director of The Grapes of Wrath and Stagecoach, 5 times winner of Academy Award	John Ford	86%
Actor famous for his roles in Pirates of Caribbean saga and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Johnny Depp	86%
Actor famous for his roles in Titanic and The Wolf of Wall Street	Leonardo DiCaprio	86%
Swimmer, winner of 28 Olympic Medals	Michael Phelps	86%
Animator, creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, 22 times winner of Academy Award	Walt Disney	86%
Inventor and one of the Founding Fathers	Benjamin Franklin	85%
Actor and former professional wrestler, famous for his role in Jumanji saga	Dwayne Johnson/The Rock	85%
Singer, Jailhouse Rock, Hound Dog	Elvis Presley	85%
Director of Jaws and E.T.	Steven Spielberg	85%
Actor famous for his roles in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Men in Black	Will Smith	85%
The greatest American architect of all time, a selection of his work became a UNESCO World Heritage Site	Frank Lloyd Wright	84%
Singer and actress, Bad Romance, Poker Face	Lady Gaga	84%
Female singer, Queen of Pop, La Isla Bonita, Like a Virgin	Madonna	84%
Inventors of the airplane	Orville Wright/Wilbur Wright	84%
Third President, one of the Founding Fathers	Thomas Jefferson	83%
Actor famous for his roles in Forrest Gump and Philadelphia	Tom Hanks	83%
Rapper, Lose Yourself, Rap God	Eminem	81%
President who decided to use the Atomic Bombs	Harry S. Truman	80%
Second President, one of the Founding Fathers	John Adams	80%
Inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	79%
Commander of Allied Force in Europe during World War Two and President in 1950s	Dwight D. Eisenhower	78%
Actor famous for his role in Rocky saga	Sylvester Stallone	78%
Gangster of the Prohibition era	Al Capone	77%
Actor famous for his roles in Scarface and The Godfather	Al Pacino	76%
Female singer, former member of Destiny's Child, Crazy in Love, Baby Boy	Beyoncé	76%
Director and creator of the Star Wars saga	George Lucas	76%
Basketball player, winner of Nba with Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers	LeBron James	76%
Physicist, named the father of the atomic bomb for his role in the Manhattan Project	Robert Oppenheimer	73%
Actor famous for his roles in Troy and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Brad Pitt	72%
Actor famous for his roles in Taxi Driver and The Mission	Robert De Niro	72%
Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement	Malcolm X	71%
Writer, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	71%
Actor famous for his roles in The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris	Marlon Brando	71%
Actor famous for his roles in Ocean's Eleven and Gravity	George Clooney	69%
Director of Inglourious Basterds and Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino	69%
Artist, main figure of Pop Art, Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych	Andy Warhol	67%
Actor famous for his roles in The Shining and Batman(1989)	Jack Nicholson	67%
General of the Civil War and President	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
Actress famous for her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and Pretty Woman	Julia Roberts	66%
NFL player, 7 times winner of Super Bowl	Tom Brady	66%
President, ideator of the League of Nations	Woodrow Wilson	66%
Singer and songwriter, Like a Rolling Stone, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 2016	Bob Dylan	64%
Actress famous for her roles in Girl, Interrupted and Maleficent	Angelina Jolie	63%
Socialite, media personality, and businesswoman with hundreds of milions of followers on Instagram	Kim Kardashian	63%
Singer and the most influential electric guitarist in history, Hey Joe	Jimi Hendrix	62%
Actress famous for her roles in Kramer vs Kramer and The Iron Lady, three times winner of Academy Award	Meryl Streep	62%
Sprinter, winner of four gold medals during 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin	Jesse Owens	61%
Writer, author of The Old Man and the Sea, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1954	Ernest Hemingway	60%
Director of A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	59%
Director and actor, famous for his roles in Spaghetti Western, 5 times winner of Academy Award	Clint Eastwood	58%
Singer and actor, one of the most popular of 1950s and 1960s and three times winner of Academy Award, That's Life, Let It Snow!	Frank Sinatra	57%
Director of Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street, winner of Academy Award in 2007	Martin Scorsese	57%
Singer, Johnny B Good named the Father of Rock and Roll	Chuck Berry	55%
Writer, known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery	Edgar Allan Poe	55%
Director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	54%
Director of Citizen Kane, two times winner of Academy Award	Orson Welles	52%
Actor famous for his roles in In a Lonely Place and Casablanca, winner of Academy Award in 1952	Humphrey Bogart	51%
Actress famous for her roles in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter, 4 times winners of Academy Award	Katharine Hepburn	49%
General of World War Two, key figure in the Pacific theatre	Douglas MacArthur	47%
Dancer and actor, considered the best dancer in the history of cinema	Fred Astaire	47%
Singer, I Got You (I Feel Good), It's a Man's Man's Man's World"	James Brown	47%
Writer, author of Moby Dick	Herman Melville	46%
Actor famous for his roles in Stagecoach and The Quiet Man	John Wayne	44%
The most famous comic duo, active from 1920s to 1950s	Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy	44%
Sprinter, winner of nine Olympic gold medals from 1970s to 1990s	Carl Lewis	41%
Painter, main figure in the abstract expressionist movement	Jackson Pollock	38%
Actor, comedian, and director known for his silent film works	Buster Keaton	36%
Biologist, whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA	James Watson	35%
Director of Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose and Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	34%
Baseball player, 9 times winner of World Series with New York Yankees	Joe DiMaggio	33%
Tennis player, 13 times winner of Grand Slam titles	Pete Sampras	32%
The greatest American poet, author of O Captain! My Captain!	Walt Whitman	32%
Director of It Happened One Night and It's a Wonderful Life, 7 times winner of Academy Award	Frank Capra	25%
Theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and the theory of quantum electrodynamic	Richard Feynman	13%

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