| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The inventor of the telephone | 1922 | Alexander Graham Bell | 96%
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| The man who invented the light bulb | 1931 | Thomas Edison | 96%
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| The world's greatest escape artist | 1926 | Harry Houdini | 90%
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| The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific | 1939 | Amelia Earhart | 89%
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| Discoverer of radium and polonium | 1934 | Marie Curie | 89%
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| The U.S. president during World War I | 1924 | Woodrow Wilson | 85%
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| Founder of Bolshevism and the force behind the Russian revolution | 1924 | Vladimir Lenin | 84%
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| The founder of psychoanalysis | 1939 | Sigmund Freud | 76%
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| The creator of Sherlock Holmes | 1930 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 75%
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| Depression-era crime duo Bonnie and Clyde | 1934 | Clyde Barrow | 74%
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| King of the UK and Emperor of India, from 1910 until his death | 1936 | George V | 70%
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| Impressionist painter of water lilies | 1926 | Claude Monet | 69%
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| Depression-era crime duo Bonnie and Clyde | 1934 | Bonnie Parker | 68%
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| Business magnate considered the wealthiest American of all time | 1937 | John D. Rockefeller | 68%
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| Norwegian explorer who reached the South Pole first | 1928 | Roald Amundsen | 66%
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| The father of modern Turkey | 1938 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 61%
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| Composer of Rhapsody in Blue | 1937 | George Gershwin | 60%
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| Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis | 1924 | Franz Kafka | 53%
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| Legendary Mexican bandit | 1923 | Pancho Villa | 50%
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| Doc Holliday's friend at the O.K. Corral | 1929 | Wyatt Earp | 48%
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| German general in WWI and later President of Germany | 1934 | Paul von Hindenburg | 45%
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| The discoverer of King Tut's tomb | 1939 | Howard Carter | 41%
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| Leader of The Endurance expedition to Antarctica | 1922 | Ernest Shackleton | 36%
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| Inventor of the game of basketball | 1939 | James Naismith | 34%
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| The New Zealand physicist who split the atom | 1937 | Ernest Rutherford | 26%
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| Free-spirited modern dancer of the early 1900s | 1927 | Isadora Duncan | 24%
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| Spanish dramatist and poet who wrote Poet in New York | 1936 | Federico Garcia Lorca | 20%
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| North Pole expedition leader | 1920 | Robert Peary | 19%
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| Russian writer known for his socialist realism | 1936 | Maxim Gorky | 9%
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| Serbian physicist and physical chemist based in the USA | 1935 | Mihajlo Pupin | 3%
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