| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II | 1945 | Adolf Hitler | 96%
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| Italy's dictator during World War II | 1945 | Benito Mussolini | 91%
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| The president who led the U.S. through World War II | 1945 | Franklin Roosevelt | 88%
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| American gangster known as "Scarface" | 1947 | Al Capone | 85%
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| German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage | 1945 | Anne Frank | 85%
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| Longtime companion and later the wife of the leader of Nazi Germany | 1945 | Eva Braun | 81%
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| Non-violent leader of Indian independence | 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi | 81%
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| American industrialist, business magnate and founder of a Motor Company | 1947 | Henry Ford | 80%
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| The author of The Great Gatsby | 1940 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 75%
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| New York Yankee hero and home run king | 1948 | Babe Ruth | 74%
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| Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 | 1945 | Joseph Goebbels | 74%
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940 | 1940 | Neville Chamberlain | 74%
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| "The Desert Fox" of World War II | 1944 | Erwin Rommel | 73%
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| The ruler of Germany during World War I | 1941 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 71%
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| Head of the Gestapo during World War II | 1945 | Heinrich Himmler | 68%
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| Lenin's right-hand man | 1940 | Leon Trotsky | 68%
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| The electrical genius who invented alternating current | 1943 | Nikola Tesla | 66%
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| US Army general who commanded in the Mediterranean theatre in WWII | 1945 | George S. Patton | 58%
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| Author of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake | 1941 | James Joyce | 56%
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| Commander of the Nazi Luftwaffe in World War II | 1946 | Hermann Göring | 55%
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| Creator of the Peter Rabbit children's books | 1943 | Beatrix Potter | 49%
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| German composer who shares the last name with more famous Johann | 1949 | Richard Strauss | 48%
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 | 1945 | David Lloyd George | 41%
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| Author of The Little Prince | 1944 | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | 35%
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| Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor | 1943 | Isoroku Yamamoto | 35%
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| German physicist who originated quantum theory | 1947 | Max Planck | 29%
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| Author of A Room Of One's Own | 1941 | Virginia Woolf | 24%
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| Indian polymath and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | 1941 | Rabindranath Tagore | 14%
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| Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927 | 1942 | José Raúl Capablanca | 11%
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| Serbian physicist and mathematician and the first wife of Albert Einstein | 1948 | Mileva Marić | 5%
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