Stats: Name 120 Historical Figures

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The average score is 70 of 120

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	98%
British prime minister during WWII	Winston Churchill	98%
First president of the United States	George Washington	94%
Founder of Islam	Muhammad	94%
Formulated the first physical laws of gravity and motion	Isaac Newton	93%
Austrian founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	93%
Mongolian ruler of the largest contiguous empire in history	Genghis Khan	91%
American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis	John F. Kennedy	91%
Roman general and statesman killed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	91%
Deaf German composer of "Für Elise" and "Moonlight Sonata"	Ludwig van Beethoven	91%
Gave "I Have A Dream" speech.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	91%
Virgin mother of Jesus in Christianity	Mary	91%
First man to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	91%
Italian dictator and leader of the National Fascist Party	Benito Mussolini	90%
Virgin Queen of England	Elizabeth I	90%
Car manufacturer who developed industrial mass production	Henry Ford	90%
Peace activist and founding member of "The Beatles"	John Lennon	90%
South African political leader who fought against Apartheid	Nelson Mandela	90%
Renaissance inventor, polymath, and painter of the "Mona Lisa"	Leonardo da Vinci	89%
Brought independece to India through non-violent resisitance	Mahatma Gandhi	89%
Created the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	88%
Author of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"	Charles Dickens	88%
Discoverer of Jupiter's moons	Galileo Galilei	88%
Marxist revolutionary and guerilla fighter of Latin America	Che Guevara	86%
Catholic nun and Saint of Calcutta	Mother Teresa	86%
Greek conquerer of Persia	Alexander the Great	85%
Last pharoh of Ptolemaic Egypt	Cleopatra	85%
Sculptor of "David"	Michelangelo	85%
Spanish co-founder of modern cubism	Pablo Picasso	85%
Said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned	Nero	84%
First Emperor of the Franks	Charlemagne	83%
French heroine of the 100 Years War	Joan of Arc	83%
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of "Starry Night"	Vincent van Gogh	83%
First aviatrix to fly across the Atlantic	Amelia Earhart	81%
Japanese emperor during WWII	Hirohito	81%
Serbian-born inventor and futurist responsible for AC electricity	Nikola Tesla	81%
First communist leader of Cuba	Fidel Castro	80%
British explorer of the Pacific islands	James Cook	80%
Liberator of South America	Simón Bolívar	80%
Restored ancient Egyptian religion before his death at 18-years-old	Tutankhamun	80%
Author of "The Lord of the Rings"	J.R.R. Tolkien	79%
English author of "Frankenstein"	Mary Shelley	79%
Theoretical black hole physicist diagnosed with ALS	Stephen Hawking	79%
German baroque composer of over 1000 compositions	Johann Sebastian Bach	78%
With his brother Wilbur flew the first powered aircraft	Orville Wright	78%
Greek moral philospher of thought	Socrates	78%
Last emperor of Russia	Nicholas II	77%
Ancient Chinese moral philospher	Confucius	75%
Allied Commander of D-Day	Dwight D. Eisenhower	75%
First Marxist leader of Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh	73%
Pioneered the research on radioactivity	Marie Curie	72%
French fashion designer who collaborated with Nazi Germany	Coco Chanel	70%
Painter and founder of French Impressionist painting	Claude Monet	69%
Started the English Reformation after the Catholic Church forbid his divorce	Henry VIII	69%
Russian composer of "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake"	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	69%
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	68%
Mexican painter of self-portraits and surrealism	Frida Kahlo	67%
Author of "Les Misérables"	Victor Hugo	67%
Wallachian ruler and ruthless impaler	Vlad Dracula	67%
Spartan queen "whose face launched a thousand ships"	Helen of Troy	65%
Conquistador responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	65%
Venetian merchant and explorer of East Asia	Marco Polo	64%
French Revolutionary and architect of the Reign of Terror	Maximilien Robespierre	64%
Spiritual teacher of mindfulness and the transcendence of pain	Gautama Buddha	63%
Made the first circumnavigation of Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	62%
Former slave who helped others escape slavery with the "Underground Railroad"	Harriet Tubman	62%
Introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system	Nicolaus Copernicus	62%
First chancellor of Germany	Otto von Bismarck	62%
Viking discoverer of Greenland	Erik the Red	60%
British WWI officer renown for his role in the Arab Revolt	T.E. Lawrence	60%
Legendary Chinese folk heroine who took her father's place in the army	Hua Mulan	59%
Central prophet of Judaism	Moses	59%
Author of "The Prince" and the father of modern political science	Niccolò Machiavelli	59%
Father of English literature and author of the "Canterbury Tales"	Geoffery Chaucer	57%
Emperor of Ethiopia and central figure of Rastafarianism	Haile Selassie	57%
French writer who advocated for separation of church and state	Voltaire	54%
Celtic queen who rose against the invading forces of Rome	Boudica	53%
Wrote the "Tao te Ching"	Laozi	48%
Chinese military strategist who wrote "The Art of War"	Sun Tzu	47%
Aztec ruler during the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica	Moctezuma II	46%
Modern anthropologist known for her study of chimpanzees	Jane Goodall	43%
Mali emperor known for lavish spending and generosity	Mansa Musa	42%
Zulu King who reorganized the military into a formidable force	Shaka Zulu	42%
Roman poet of the "Metamorphoses"	Ovid	41%
First emperor of unified China	Qin Shi Huang	41%
Founder of the Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	38%
Sultan of the Ottoman golden age	Suleiman the Magnificent	38%
First true historian	Herodotus	37%
Influential Japanese filmmaker of samurai movies	Akira Kurosawa	35%
American civil rights activist who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"	Maya Angelou	33%
Earliest human skeleton known to exist at 3.2 million years old.	Lucy	32%
Babylonian King responsible for the destruction of Solomon's Temple	Nebuchadnezzar II	32%
Founded the scientific method	Francis Bacon	28%
Ruled Egypt after the collapse of the Macedonian Empire	Ptolemy I Soter	28%
English countess who developed the first computer algorithm	Ada Lovelace	26%
Sumerian king and subject of earliest known work of fiction	Gilgamesh	25%
United the Gauls in a failed revolt against Julius Caesar's forces	Vercingetorix	25%
Film actress and co-inventor of FHSS radio guidance	Hedy Lamarr	22%
Inventor of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	20%
Greek philosopher of Cynicism who lived on the street in a ceramic jar	Diogenes	19%
First king of Hawaii	Kamehameha	19%
Influential Byzantine empress to Justinian I	Theodora	19%
First "Great Unifier" of Japan	Oda Nobunaga	17%
Founder of the Republic of China	Sun Yat-sen	17%
Founder of the ancient Maurya Empire	Chandragupta	14%
Shawnee chief who organized a Native American confederacy	Tecumseh	14%
First woman in space	Valentina Tereshkova	12%
Three Kingdoms warlord who controlled the Chinese emperor	Cao Cao	11%
English scientist, polymath, and discoverer of microscopic life	Robert Hooke	11%
King of Joseon Dynasty and inventor of the Korean alphabet	Sejong the Great	11%
Only empress in Chinese history	Wu Zetian	11%
Japanese author of the first novel	Murasaki Shikibu	10%
Blind leader of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade	Enrico Dandolo	9%
X-ray crystallographer central to the discovery of DNA's structure	Rosalind Franklin	9%
African queen of Ndongo and Matamba who fought against the Portugese	Nzingha Mbande	7%
Roman soldier who stabbed Jesus on the cross	Longinus	6%
First female sultan of India	Razia Sultana	6%
Admiral who defended Korea from Japanese invasion in 1598	Yi Sun-sin	5%
US Naval admiral, computer scientist, and inventor of the compiler	Grace Hopper	4%
Beloved Hellenistic teacher of astronomy, math, and philosophy	Hypatia	4%

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