| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Founding Father and the second US president | 1826 | John Adams | 95%
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| Founder of modern communism | 1883 | Karl Marx | 93%
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| German composer who suffered from deafness | 1827 | Ludwig van Beethoven | 93%
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| The author of Oliver Twist | 1870 | Charles Dickens | 89%
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| The author of Pride and Prejudice | 1817 | Jane Austen | 89%
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| Leader of Confederate armies in the Civil War | 1870 | Robert E. Lee | 89%
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| Author of the Declaration of Independence | 1826 | Thomas Jefferson | 89%
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| US president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation | 1867 | Abraham Lincoln | 87%
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| The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution | 1882 | Charles Darwin | 87%
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| The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe | 1890 | Vincent Van Gogh | 87%
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| The author of Frankenstein | 1851 | Mary Shelley | 85%
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| The French military genius and Emperor | 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 85%
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| Inventor of dynamite | 1896 | Alfred Nobel | 82%
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| The hero of the Battle of Trafalgar | 1805 | Horation Nelson | 82%
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| El Libertador of 19th-century South America | 1830 | Simón Bolívar | 82%
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| Confederate general nicknamed "Stonewall" | 1863 | Thomas J. Jackson | 82%
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| President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 | 1845 | Andrew Jackson | 80%
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| The author of the poem The Raven | 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe | 78%
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| Inventor of the raised-point writing system for the blind | 1852 | Louis Braille | 78%
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| US army commander killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn | 1876 | George Armstrong Custer | 76%
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| The author of The Three Musketeers | 1870 | Alexandre Dumas | 75%
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| Baby-faced outlaw of the American West | 1881 | Billy the Kid | 75%
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| The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1898 | Lewis Carroll | 73%
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| Beloved husband of Queen Victoria | 1862 | Prince Albert | 73%
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| The author of Les Misérables | 1885 | Victor Hugo | 73%
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| Author of Jane Eyre | 1855 | Charlotte Brontë | 69%
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| Explorer of Africa who met with Henry Stanley | 1873 | David Livingstone | 67%
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| Improver (not inventor) of the steam engine | 1819 | James Watt | 67%
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| German composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen | 1883 | Richard Wagner | 67%
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| One of the Founding Fathers of the United States | 1804 | Alexander Hamilton | 65%
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| Tennessee frontiersman and defender of the Alamo | 1836 | Davy Crockett | 65%
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| English king who lost the American colonies | 1820 | King George III | 65%
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| Famous desperado of the old American west | 1882 | Jesse James | 64%
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| The Lakota chief who beat General Custer at Little Bighorn | 1890 | Sitting Bull | 64%
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| The author of Treasure Island | 1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 62%
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| Pioneer of smallpox vaccine | 1823 | Edward Jenner | 60%
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| German philosopher who wrote Critique of Pure Reason | 1804 | Immanuel Kant | 60%
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| The Russian composer who wrote The Nutcracker | 1893 | Piotr Tchaikovsky | 60%
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| Romantic Polish-French piano composer | 1849 | Frederic Chopin | 58%
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| The author of Crime and Punishment | 1881 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 58%
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| The Indian woman who accompanied Lewis & Clark | 1812 | Sacagawea | 58%
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| The Italian who built the first battery | 1827 | Alessandro Volta | 55%
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| Romantic composer known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies | 1886 | Franz Liszt | 45%
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| President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War | 1889 | Jefferson Davis | 45%
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| The German dramatist known for Faust | 1832 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 44%
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| The author of Little Women | 1888 | Louisa May Alcott | 44%
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| Political activist and the author of Common Sense | 1809 | Thomas Paine | 44%
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| The gambler who fought with the Earps at the O.K. Corral | 1887 | Doc Holliday | 38%
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| Spanish painter of Maya Nude | 1828 | Francisco Goya | 36%
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| The author of Ivanhoe | 1832 | Sir Walter Scott | 36%
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| Austrian composer who died at the age of 31 | 1828 | Franz Schubert | 33%
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| Composer who was mentor of Mozart, and a tutor of Beethoven | 1810 | Joseph Haydn | 33%
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| French author of novel The Red and the Black | 1842 | Stendhal | 24%
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| German composer known for A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1847 | Felix Mendelssohn | 22%
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| Mechanical engineer, developed steam engine | 1848 | George Stephenson | 22%
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| The author of Don Juan | 1824 | Lord Byron | 22%
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| The frontiersman shot from behind in Deadwood | 1876 | Wild Bill Hickok | 20%
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| Inventor of the first dynamo | 1867 | Michael Faraday | 18%
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| Brave water-carrying woman of the American Revolutionary War | 1832 | Molly Pitcher | 9%
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| Field Marshal of the Russian Empire who defeated Napoleon | 1813 | Mikhail Kutuzov | 7%
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