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People in History by Wikipedia Descriptions #1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 44,174 times
- The average score is 13 of 21
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| Excerpt | Person | % Correct |
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| He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government | Abraham Lincoln | 97%
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| He is referred to by many appellations including Messenger of Allah | Muhammad | 89%
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| Ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976 | Mao Zedong | 85%
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| A Hindu nationalist assassinated him on 30 January 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi | 84%
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| His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid | Nelson Mandela | 83%
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| The phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb | Thomas Edison | 83%
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| a² + b² = c² | Pythagoras | 75%
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| On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India | Queen Victoria | 75%
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| He returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution | Vladimir Lenin | 75%
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| His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist | Charles Darwin | 65%
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| The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the Siege of Orléans | Joan of Arc | 65%
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| Was born Gaius Octavius Thurinus into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian gens Octavia | Augustus | 60%
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| He founded some twenty cities that bore his name | Alexander the Great | 59%
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| His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde, a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world | Marco Polo | 55%
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| "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" | Winston Churchill | 55%
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| The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on lists of the greatest films of all time | Charlie Chaplin | 50%
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| Shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804 | Aaron Burr | 47%
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| He and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | 45%
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| Plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security | Jane Austen | 35%
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| His reported overhauling of the railway network led to the popular saying, "Say what you like about him, he made the trains run on time" | Benito Mussolini | 31%
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| The Terror ended with his arrest on 9 Thermidor and his execution on the day after | Maximilien Robespierre | 30%
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