50 Famous Men from the United States - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First president of the United States from 1789 to 1797	George Washington	98%
The first person to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	98%
First African-American president in U.S. history.	Barack Obama	97%
Media personality, and businessman who served as the U.S. president from 2017 to 2021	Donald Trump	97%
U.S. president who served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963	John F. Kennedy	97%
Minister and the leader in the civil rights movement who was assassinated in 1968	Martin Luther King Jr.	96%
King of Pop who popularized the moonwalk dance through his performances	Michael Jackson	96%
King of Rock and Roll and one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century	Elvis Presley	95%
Co-founder of Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms	Mark Zuckerberg	94%
Swimmer and the most successful Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals	Michael Phelps	94%
U.S. president who led the nation through the American Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	93%
Business magnate, software developer, investor and a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation	Bill Gates	92%
Basketball player who won five MVPs and six championships with the Chicago Bulls	Michael Jordan	91%
Heavyweight boxer born as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.	Muhammad Ali	91%
Pioneer of the American animation industry	Walt Disney	91%
Scottish-born inventor who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	90%
The longest serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms	Franklin D. Roosevelt	90%
Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc.	Steve Jobs	90%
Actor won two consecutive Oscars for Best Actor for starring in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump	Tom Hanks	90%
Professional boxer nicknamed "Iron Mike" who competed from 1985 to 2005	Mike Tyson	89%
Inventor who developed early versions of the electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	89%
Industrialist who converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible conveyance	Henry Ford	87%
U.S. president and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	87%
U.S. president and the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe in WWII	Dwight D. Eisenhower	86%
Los Angeles Lakers basketball star who died in a helicopter crash in 2020	Kobe Bryant	86%
NBA's all-time leading scorer who played for Cleveland, Miami and LA Lakers	LeBron James	85%
Golfer who is tied for first in PGA Tour wins and ranks second in men's major championships	Tiger Woods	85%
Director best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises	George Lucas	84%
Director of the movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	83%
Quarterback who played his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots	Tom Brady	81%
Gangster known by the nickname "Scarface"	Al Capone	80%
Director of the movies Pulp Fiction, Reservoirs Dogs, Django Unchained and From Dusk Till Dawn	Quentin Tarantino	80%
Outlaw, bank and train robber who was assassinated by Robert Ford	Jesse James	78%
Baseball player born as George Herman, whose career in MLB spanned from 1914 through 1935	Babe Ruth	77%
Writer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	77%
Human rights activist best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam	Malcolm X	70%
Scientist who was a major figure in the American Enlightenment for his discoveries regarding electricity	Benjamin Franklin	69%
Novelist who wrote The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	68%
Actor born as Marion Robert Morrison, who became a popular icon through his starring roles in Western films	John Wayne	68%
Founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine	Hugh Hefner	65%
Business magnate and philanthropist who was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time	John D. Rockefeller	63%
Actor and film director who rose to fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in the Dollars Trilogy	Clint Eastwood	59%
General in the US Army who commanded in Europe after the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944	George S. Patton	54%
Singer, actor, and producer who was married to Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow and Barbara Marx	Frank Sinatra	52%
Author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire	George R. R. Martin	52%
Funk and soul singer whose most famous song is I Got You (I Feel Good)	James Brown	50%
Painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement widely noticed for his "drip technique"	Jackson Pollock	48%
U.S. Army officer who was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn	George Armstrong Custer	47%
Track and field athlete who was a dominant sprinter and long jumper during the 1980s	Carl Lewis	42%
Writer and poet who is regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the U.S. literature	Edgar Allan Poe	38%

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