| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The author of Nineteen eighty-four | 1950 | George Orwell | 89%
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| The dictatorial leader of the USSR from 1928 to 1953 | 1953 | Joseph Stalin | 86%
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| Movie icon and star of Rebel Without a Cause | 1955 | James Dean | 81%
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| Creator of the theory of relativity | 1955 | Albert Einstein | 80%
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| The king of Great Britain during WWII | 1952 | George VI | 76%
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| Argentina's famous First Lady, known as Evita | 1952 | Eva Peron | 74%
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| Mexico's most famous 20th-century woman artist | 1954 | Frida Kahlo | 68%
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| Rick Blaine in Casablanca | 1957 | Humphrey Bogart | 65%
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| The bacteriologist who discovered penicillin | 1955 | Alexander Fleming | 59%
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| The astronomer the space telescope is named after | 1953 | Edwin Hubble | 59%
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| Creator of Winnie the Pooh | 1956 | A.A. Milne | 58%
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| The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence | 1954 | Alan Turing | 52%
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| Hungarian actor best-known for Dracula on Broadway and on the screen | 1956 | Bela Lugosi | 52%
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| The swashbuckling star of Captain Blood and Robin Hood | 1959 | Errol Flynn | 50%
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| The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses | 1956 | Jackson Pollock | 49%
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| The popular jazz singer known as "Lady Day" | 1959 | Billie Holiday | 44%
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| Italian businessman and fashion designer | 1953 | Guccio Gucci | 44%
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| The G-Man who nabbed Al Capone | 1957 | Eliot Ness | 39%
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| Irish novelist and the author of Pygmalion | 1950 | George Bernard Shaw | 39%
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| Marshal of France at the end of World War I | 1951 | Philippe Pétain | 37%
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| Superman on the 1950s TV series | 1959 | George Reeves | 36%
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| Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death in 1958 | 1958 | Pope Pius XII | 36%
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| French fashion designer and the founder of famous fashion house | 1957 | Christian Dior | 32%
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| The legendary film director who did The Ten Commandments | 1959 | Cecil B. De Mille | 28%
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| Mexican painter whose large frescoes helped establish the mural movement | 1957 | Diego Rivera | 23%
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| World War II-era U.S. General and Secretary of State | 1959 | George C. Marshall | 23%
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| German novelist and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate | 1955 | Thomas Mann | 21%
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| French artist and leader of the Fauve movement | 1954 | Henri Matisse | 14%
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| Leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | 1956 | Imre Nagy | 9%
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| One of the greatest musicians in Romanian history | 1955 | George Enescu | 4%
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