| Name any valid person who… | Possible Answers | % Correct |
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| was CEO of Apple | Michael Scott | Mike Markkula | John Sculley | Michael Spindler | Gil Amelio | Steve Jobs | Tim Cook | 96%
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| had a US state named after them | Queen Henrietta Maria | King Charles I | King George II | Queen Elizabeth I | King Louis XIV | George Washington | William Penn | 69%
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| appears on a currently issued Bank of England note | Queen Elizabeth II | Adam Smith | Matthew Boulton | James Watt | Winston Churchill | Jane Austen | William Turner | 66%
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| won the Nobel Prize more than once | Marie Curie | Linus Pauling | John Bardeen | Frederick Sanger | 65%
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| scored more than 10 (cumulative) goals at the FIFA World Cup | Jurgen Klinsmann | Sandor Kocsis | Pele | Just Fontaine | Gerd Muller | Ronaldo | Miroslav Klose | 64%
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| hosted The Tonight Show on NBC | Steve Allen | Jack Paar | Johnny Carson | Jay Leno | Conan O'Brien | Jimmy Fallon | 60%
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| portrayed Doctor Who in the 21st century | Christopher Eccleston | David Tennant | Matt Smith | Peter Capaldi | Jodie Whittaker | 41%
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| was named TIME's Person of the Year in the 1980s | Ronald Reagan | Lech Walesa | Yuri Andropov | Peter Ueberroth | Deng Xiaoping | Corazon Aquino | Mikhail Gorbachev | 37%
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| had a song remain at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for more than 15 weeks | Lil Nas X | Billy Ray Cyrus | Mariah Carey | Nathan Morris | Shawn Stockman | Wanya Morris | Luis Fonsi | Daddy Yankee | Justin Bieber | 33%
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| directed a Harry Potter film | Chris Columbus | Alfonso Cuaron | Mike Newell | David Yates | 31%
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| defeated Muhammad Ali in a professional boxing match | Joe Frazier | Ken Norton | Leon Spinks | Larry Holmes | Trevor Berbick | 26%
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| won all four tennis Grand Slams in the same year | Don Budge | Maureen Connolly | Rod Laver | Margaret Court | Steffi Graf | 20%
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| was executed for treason against the United States | Thomas Hickey | William Mumford | Julius Rosenberg | Ethel Rosenberg | 15%
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| walked on the moon in the 1970s | Alan Shepard | Edgar Mitchell | David Scott | James Irwin | John Young | Charles Duke | Gene Cernan | Harrison Schmitt | 9%
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| lived past the age of 120 | Jeanne Calment | 7%
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| won the Booker Prize more than once | J. M. Coetzee | Peter Carey | J. G. Farrell | Hilary Mantel | Margaret Atwood | 7%
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| authored an official James Bond novel (but was not Ian Fleming) | Kingsley Amis | John Pearson | Christopher Wood | John Gardner | Raymond Benson | Sebastian Faulks | Jeffery Deaver | William Boyd | Anthony Horowitz | 5%
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| received an Academy Award for Best Director for their debut film | Delbert Mann | Jerome Robbins | Robert Redford | James L. Brooks | Kevin Costner | Sam Mendes | 4%
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