| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 19th century pianist and a musical composer | Ferenc Liszt | 90%
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| Author of a famous puzzle cube | Ernö Rubik | 87%
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| Considered to be the best Hungarian football player | Ferenc Puskás | 81%
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| Hungarian leader from 1920 to 1944, arguably considered by some a fascist | Miklós Hórthy | 65%
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| Communist leader from 1956 to 1988 | János Kadár | 61%
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| Poet and a revolutionary commander killed in 1848 revolution | Sándor Petőfi | 61%
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| First communist leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1953, founder of Hungarian Workers Party (MDP) and a mass murderer | Matyás Rákosi | 55%
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| Poet, author of Himnusz, the national anthem of Hungary | Ferenc Kölcsey | 52%
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| Communist leader of 1956 uprising, executed by Soviets | Imre Nagy | 52%
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| Hungarian PM in the final stages of 1848-49 revolution, replacing the former | Lájos Kossuth | 52%
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| Nobleman, leader of 1703-11 war of independence against the Habsburg monarchy | Ferenc Rákoczi | 48%
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| Doctor who pioneered antiseptical procedures | Ignaz Semmelweis | 45%
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| Minister of transportation during the 1848 revolution and author of the first Budapest bridge across the Danube | István Szechenyi | 45%
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| Communist revolutionary and 1919 leader of Hungarian soviet republic, deposed after lost war with Romania and Czechoslovakia | Béla Kun | 42%
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| Best known for the 1867 Austro-Hungarian compromise, but also 1848 minister of justice, who disapproved leadership of the former | Ferenc Deák | 42%
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| Nazi collaborator and Arrow Cross Party leader, who took power in 1944 coup overthrowing the former | Ferenc Szálasi | 42%
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| Chess Grandmaster and the only female to achieve the title | Judit Polgár | 42%
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| Prime minister during the 1848 revolution | Lájos Batthyány | 42%
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| First democratically elected president of Hungary in 1990 | Árpád Göncz | 29%
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| The only Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize | Imre Kertész | 29%
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| Prominent military commander during 1848-49 revolution, most notable for his defense of Komárom | Artúr Görgei | 23%
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| Hungarian PM during WWI | István Tisza | 23%
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| Hungarian PM in 1867-71 and founder of Budapest | Gyula Andrássy | 16%
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| Prominent 30's antisemitist, who changed his view and protected Jews during Holocaust and was subsequently executed by Nazis | Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky | 10%
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