Stats: Name 120 Historical Figures #2

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The average score is 43 of 120

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
US President during the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	94%
English playright and Bard of Avon	William Shakespeare	86%
Central figure of Christianity	Jesus	84%
Last Queen of France	Marie Antoinette	84%
Military leader of France who crowned himself Emperor	Napoleon Bonaparte	84%
19th-century Queen of England	Victoria	84%
Engineer of the first practical telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	80%
Wrote "The Communist Manifesto"	Karl Marx	80%
Formulated the theory of evolution	Charles Darwin	78%
Inventor of the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	78%
Founder of the USSR	Vladimir Lenin	78%
Jewish girl whose diary depicted life in hiding during WWII	Anne Frank	76%
Lead vocalist of the rock band Queen	Freddie Mercury	76%
Namesake of the theorem a² + b² = c²	Pythagoras	76%
Longest-ruling Empress of Russia	Catherine the Great	74%
First deaf and blind person to graduate from college	Helen Keller	74%
Brazilian football player and winner of three World Cups	Pelé	74%
Wrote the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	74%
Greek hero of the Trojan War	Achilles	72%
Italian poet of the "Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	72%
Crossed the Alps during the Punic Wars	Hannibal	72%
Last leader of the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev	70%
1600's Dutch artist of "The Night Watch"	Rembrandt	68%
Primary patron saint of Ireland	Saint Patrick	68%
Ruler of the Huns and feared enemy of Eastern Rome	Attila the Hun	66%
Chinese-American martial artist, actor, and film director of the 1970's	Bruce Lee	66%
Second man on the Moon	Buzz Aldrin	66%
Nazi propaganda minister during WWII	Joseph Goebbels	66%
First European to discover the Caribbean	Christopher Columbus	64%
King of England and military leader of the Third Crusade	Richard the Lionheart	62%
Eccentric Spanish artist of surrealist paintings, sculptures, and films	Salvador Dali	60%
Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	58%
Actor and director of "Citizen Kane"	Orson Welles	58%
Colombian drug lord and wealthiest criminal in history	Pablo Escobar	58%
American inventor of the phonograph and motion-picture camera	Thomas Edison	58%
Author of "The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine"	H. G. Wells	56%
Scottish knight who defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge	William Wallace	56%
Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence	Alan Turing	54%
Greek mathematician who discovered the principle of water displacement	Archimedes	54%
English social reformer, statistician and founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	54%
Spanish writer of "Don Quixote"	Miguel de Cervantes	54%
Great Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty in China	Kublai Khan	52%
Viking discoverer of North America	Leif Eriksson	52%
American abolitionist, writer, and statesman who escaped slavery	Frederick Douglass	48%
Native American woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Sacagawea	48%
Swiss folk hero and expert crossbowman	William Tell	48%
Austrian symbolist painter of "The Kiss"	Gustav Klimt	46%
Lakota leader who foresaw victory of the Battle of the Little Bighorn	Sitting Bull	46%
Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, setting in motion WWI	Gavrilo Princip	44%
Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten	Nefertiti	42%
Queen consort of France and England and leader of the Second Crusade	Eleanor of Aquitaine	40%
Babylonian king who founded first legal code of justice	Hammurabi	40%
Pakistani female-education activist and youngest Nobel Prize laureate	Malala Yousafzai	40%
Roman politician defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium	Mark Antony	40%
Ancient Greek lyric poet and symbol of lesbian sexuality	Sappho	40%
Pope who initiated the Crusades	Urban II	40%
Quantum theoretical physicist and namesake of cat-box thought experiment	Erwin Schrödinger	38%
Italian general responsible for the unification of Italy	Giuseppe Garibaldi	36%
Biblical son of Enoch said to have lived to 969-years-old	Methuselah	36%
Legendary first Queen of Carthage	Dido	34%
Victorian-era woman who allegedly murdered her parents with an axe	Lizzie Borden	34%
Baron and Romantic poet of "Don Juan"	Lord Byron	34%
Roman poet of the "Aeneid"	Virgil	34%
Former Nazi scientist who engineered the Saturn V	Wernher von Braun	28%
Father of Modern Medicine	Hippocrates	26%
First Prime Minister of Great Britain	Robert Walpole	26%
Ancient prophet of Iran	Zoroaster	26%
Swedish taxonomist who formalised binomial nomenclature	Carl Linnaeus	24%
US soldier, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"	Nathan Hale	22%
Theologian of the principle "the simplest explanation is usually the right one"	William of Ockham	20%
Japanese Emperor who transformed the nation into an industrial power	Meiji	18%
Moroccan scholar who travelled all across the Old World	Ibn Battuta	16%
Former slave and prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution	Toussaint Louverture	16%
Italian Proto-Renaissance artist of realism and father of European painting	Giotto	14%
Chinese warlord of the Three Kingdoms and founder of Shu Han	Liu Bei	14%
Mauryan Emperor who promoted spread of Buddhism	Ashoka	12%
Mysterious airplane hijacker who disappeared with 200,000 US dollars	D.B. Cooper	12%
German polymath who invented integral calculus independent of Isaac Newton	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	12%
Benedictine abbess, sacred composer, and scientific natural historian of 1100's	Hildegard von Bingen	12%
Spanish priest who exposed the oppression of Native Americans	Bartolomé de las Casas	10%
Roman dictator renown for his voluntary surrender of power	Cincinnatus	10%
Qing Empress Dowager who supervised the Tongzhi Restoration	Cixi	10%
Painted "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"	Hokusai	10%
First King of the Visigoths who led the Sack of Rome	Alaric I	8%
First Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty	Saladin	8%
Canadian amputee athlete who ran across the country for cancer awareness	Terry Fox	8%
Chinese explorer, admiral, and diplomat who brought goods back to China	Zheng He	8%
Roman philosopher and Italian King who wrote "The Consolation of Philosophy"	Boëthius	6%
French filmmaker of "A Trip to the Moon"	Georges Méliès	6%
Founder of Sikhism	Guru Nanak	6%
Discovered nuclear fission	Lise Meitner	6%
Started the Mexican War of Independence	Miguel Hidalgo	6%
Last true samurai	Saigō Takamori	6%
Earliest known king	Sargon of Akkad	6%
3rd-century Queen of Palmyra	Zenobia	6%
Tang dynasty general whose rebellion killed 5% of the world population	An Lushan	4%
Canadian astronaut who recorded the first music video in space	Chris Hadfield	4%
Discovered Pluto	Clyde Tombaugh	4%
Chinese military general and high priestess of the Shang dynasty	Fu Hao	4%
Arab polymath and father of optics	Ibn al-Haytham	4%
Earliest written name	Kushim	4%
Danish transgender woman and early recipient of sex reassignment surgery	Lili Elbe	4%
English fossil collector and discoverer of the plesiosaur	Mary Anning	4%
Greek soldier who ran the first marathon	Pheidippides	4%
Astronomer who first discovered evidence of dark matter	Vera Rubin	4%
Code name of female Culper Ring spy whose real identity is unknown	Agent 355	2%
Ancient Queen of Nubia	Amanitore	2%
Chinese pirate leader of the early 1800's	Ching Shih	2%
Korean scientist who recreated gunpowder from China	Choe Mu-Seon	2%
X-ray crystallographer who confirmed the structure of penicillin and insulin	Dorothy Hodgkin	2%
First queen regnant of Majapahit	Dyah Gitarja	2%
Australian social reformer and first female member of parliament	Edith Cowan	2%
First Dalai Lama	Gendün Drubpa	2%
Prime Minister of Australia during WWII	John Curtin	2%
African revolutionary who achieved independence for Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah	2%
3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who resisted the expansion of Eastern Wu	Lady Triệu	2%
Founder of the Incan Empire	Pachacuti	2%
Naga spiritual leader who led a revolt against British rule in India	Rani Gaidinliu	2%
Ancient Indian physician and father of plastic surgery	Sushruta	2%
Tahitian Polynesian navigator who assisted James Cook on his voyage	Tupaia	2%

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