Top 102 most influential people in history - with help - Statistics

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Nr.		Answer	% Correct
2.	Founder of Christianity	Jesus	99%
3.	Founder of Islam	Muhammad	95%
20.	Der fuhrer, Leader of the nazi party	Adolf Hitler	94%
6.	Developed the general theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	94%
5.	Wrote "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	93%
25.	First American president	George Washington	93%
33.	Ruled the Soviet Union during World War 2	Joseph Stalin	93%
10.	Started the Protestant reformation	Martin Luther	93%
7.	"Father" of communism	Karl Marx	92%
21.	Fought for blacks rights in USA, famous speech "I Have a Dream"	Martin Luther King	92%
18.	Poet and playwright, wrote Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	92%
35.	US president during the civil war	Abraham Lincoln	90%
48.	Communist and first leader of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	89%
45.	English prime minister during WW II	Winston Churchill	89%
28.	"Discovered" the Americas	Cristopher Columbus	86%
43.	Inventor, made discoveries in human anatomy and painted Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci	86%
9.	Founder of buddhism	Gautama Buddha	84%
27.	Lead India to independence with peaceful demonstrations	Mahatma Gandhi	84%
26.	Greek/Macedonian king. Said to never have lost a battle	Alexander the Great	83%
1.	Discovered calculus	Isaac Newton	83%
53.	Physicist and chemist, studied radioactivity	Marie Curie	83%
70.	American president during World War 2	Franklin D. Roosevelt	82%
86.	Made it possible to mass produce cars	Henry Ford	81%
68.	South African leader who fought against apartheid	Nelson Mandela	81%
52.	Greek author and poet, wrote Iliad and Odyssey	Homer	80%
67.	German composer who was influenced by the composer above	Ludwig van Beethoven	80%
44.	Founding father and later chairman of the Peoples Republic of China	Mao Zedong	80%
40.	Ancient Greek philosopher, envisioned a society where philosophers ruled	Plato	80%
55.	Invented psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	80%
72.	Lead his people from Egypt into Israel	Moses	79%
66.	Austrian composer from the classical era	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	79%
29.	Ancient Greek philosopher, was executed because of teaching of blasphemy	Socrates	78%
23.	Greek philosopher, taught Alexander the Great	Aristotle	77%
74.	Roman dictator who was assassinated	Julius Caesar	77%
90.	Terrorist responsible for the 9/11 attacks	Osama Bin Laden	77%
89.	Known as the "virgin queen"	Elizabeth I of England	76%
56.	Wrote the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	76%
41.	First roman emperor	Augustus	75%
78.	Created the world's first successful airplane	Wright Brothers	75%
11.	Invented the printing press in Europe	Johannes Gutenberg	74%
96.	President during the "Cuban missile crisis"	John F. Kennedy	74%
95.	Queen of Britain and later empress of India	Queen Victoria	74%
24.	King of England, separated the catholic church from England	Henry VIII of England	73%
99.	American founding father who also made experiments on electricity	Benjamin Franklin	71%
38.	Scientist sent to housearrest for the rest of his life because of heliocentric teachings	Galileo Galilei	70%
30.	First emperor of France	Napoleon Bonaparte	70%
83.	Explorer who "discovered" Australia	James Cook	69%
71.	German composer during the baroque period	Johann Sebastian Bach	69%
94.	Soviet president who ended the USSR	Mikhail Gorbachev	69%
14.	Inventor, discovered alternating current	Nicola Tesla	69%
93.	American inventor and business man. Had the most patents in the world	Thomas Edison	69%
39.	Mongolian leader who conquered vast areas	Genghis Khan	68%
92.	President who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb over Japan	Harry S. Truman	67%
15.	Ancient Chinese teacher who influenced the east	Confucius	64%
34.	Was the leader of the "Manhattan project"	J. Robert Oppenheimer	64%
79.	Polish pope, helped to end the Soviet Union	John Paul II	63%
69.	One of Jesus disciples, teached about Christianity after Jesus death	St Peter	63%
31.	Israeli king	King David	61%
47.	Discovered evidence for heliocentrism	Nicolaus Copernicus	61%
8.	First christian roman emperor	Constantine the Great	60%
22.	Discovered pennicillin	Alexander Fleming	59%
12.	Plays a prominent role in Judaism, Christianity and Islam	Abraham	58%
19.	Early christian missionary	St Paul	58%
50.	Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec empire	Hernan Cortes	53%
98.	Italian scientist, invented the first electrical battery	Alessandro Volta	51%
81.	German philosopher, "God is dead"	Friedrich Nietzsche	51%
4.	French scientist,	Louis Pasteur	51%
87.	Russian leader, damaged relations between Russia and USA	Vladimir Putin	51%
65.	Invented the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	47%
46.	Greatly improved the steam engine	James Watt	47%
36.	First european to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama	44%
37.	Greek mathematician, found the accurate number of pi	Archimedes	43%
60.	German philosopher, wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"	Immanuel Kant	43%
91.	President of Gran Colombia	Simon Bolivar	42%
88.	French philosopher, believed in enlightenment instead of the teachings of the Roman Catholic church	Voltaire	40%
58.	French philosopher and scientist, wrote "Meditations on First Philosophy"	Rene Descartes	39%
17.	His followers claimed he should become the first muslim caliph	Ali	38%
73.	Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence	Alan Turing	37%
80.	English philosopher, known as father of liberalism	John Locke	34%
13.	Developed the first vaccine in Europe	Edward Jenner	32%
85.	Danish scientist, made contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantom theory	Niels Bohr	31%
75.	"Father of history", wrote down ideas and philosphy from himself and others	Herodotus	30%
47.	German scientist, Known for his laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	30%
82.	Swiss philosopher, believed that science and arts had corrupted morality and virtue	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	29%
48.	English scientist, Discovered magnetic induction	Michael Faraday	29%
57.	First chancellor of Germany	Otto von Bismarck	28%
61.	Invented the uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	27%
32.	Invented the world wide web	Tim Berners-Lee	24%
97.	Atheist scientist who wrote the book "The selfish gene"	Richard Dawkins	21%
42.	Scientist who was central in rocket technology	Wernher von Braun	20%
76.	Swedish botanist, developed the modern binomal nomenclature	Carl Linnaeus	18%
49.	Ottoman sultan who expanded the empire into southeast Europe	Mehmed the Conqueror	18%
77.	Considered the "father of computing"	Charles Babbage	17%
16.	Became the first muslim caliph	Abu Bakr	15%
63.	German scientist, central in quantum theory	Max Planck	15%
59.	Famous for his articulation of the theory - "separation of powers"	Montesquieu	15%
64.	First emperor of the Qin dynasty	Qin Shi Huang	15%
62.	Scottish scientist, formulated the theory of elctromagnetic radiation	James Clerk Maxwell	13%
100.	Psychologist who is concidered the father of operant conditioning	B F. Skinner	11%
51.	Invented paper	Cai Lun	10%
54.	Took the first lasting photograph	Nicephore Niepce	4%
84.	Discovered the effects of radiation	Hermann Muller	2%

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