| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painter of the Mona Lisa | 1519 | Leonardo da Vinci | 95%
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| The explorer who opened the door to the Americas | 1506 | Christopher Columbus | 92%
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| The beheaded wife of Henry VIII | 1536 | Anne Boleyn | 91%
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| German monk who started Protestant Reformation | 1546 | Martin Luther | 81%
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| Master sculptor of The David | 1564 | Michelangelo | 81%
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| Portugese explorer who opened up sea route to India | 1524 | Vasco da Gama | 80%
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| Explorer who first circumnavigated the Earth | 1521 | Ferdinand Magellan | 77%
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| The explorer after whom the Americas are named | 1512 | Amerigo Vespucci | 73%
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| The English mariner who circumnavigated the globe | 1596 | Francis Drake | 72%
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| The Spaniard who took Mexico from the Aztecs | 1547 | Hernan Cortes | 70%
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| French physician who made creepy predictions | 1566 | Nostradamus | 69%
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| The first czar of Russia from 1547 to 1584 | 1584 | Ivan the Terrible | 66%
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| Astronomer who said that the sun is the center of our solar system | 1543 | Nicolas Copernicus | 66%
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| First wife of Henry VIII | 1536 | Catherine of Aragon | 61%
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| Italian diplomat best known for his political treatise The Prince | 1526 | Niccolo Machiavelli | 61%
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| The 3rd wife of King Henry VIII | 1536 | Queen Jane Seymour | 61%
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| The pope who changed the calendar in 1582 | 1585 | Pope Gregory XIII | 58%
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| High Renaissance painter of The School of Athens | 1520 | Raphael | 57%
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| King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516 | 1516 | Ferdinand of Aragon | 55%
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| The Spaniard who conquered the Incas | 1541 | Francisco Pizarro | 54%
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| The leader of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest | 1520 | Montezuma II | 53%
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| Queen of Castile from 1474 until she died in 1504 | 1504 | Queen Isabella of Castille | 53%
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| The author of Utopia | 1535 | Thomas More | 43%
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| The Flemish painter who did 'Garden of Earthly Delights' | 1516 | Hieronymus Bosch | 38%
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| The Flemish map maker whose 1569 map we all recognize | 1594 | Gerardus Mercator | 35%
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| Germany's great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker | 1528 | Albrecht Dürer | 28%
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| The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly | 1526 | Erasmus | 27%
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| Longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | 1566 | Suleiman the Magnificent | 27%
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| Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope | 1500 | Bartolomeu Dias | 26%
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| Renaissance Venetian master who painted Venus of Urbino | 1576 | Titian | 18%
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