Native Languages of The World's Most Famous People - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Albert Einstein	German: He also spoke English, French, Italian and Latin.	97%
Socrates	Ancient Greek	96%
The Prophet Muhammad	Arabic: During Muhammad's lifetime, there were dialects of spoken Arabic. Muhammad spoke in the dialect of Mecca, in the western Arabian peninsula, and it was in this dialect that the Quran was written	96%
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	German	94%
Christopher Columbus	Italian	94%
Pablo Picasso	Spanish	94%
Grigori Rasputin	Russian	93%
Jackie Chan	Cantonese: He also speaks Mandarin, English, and American Sign Language	92%
Vincent Van Gogh	Dutch: He also taught himself French and English during his years as an art dealer in Paris and London.	92%
Joan of Arc	French	91%
Bruce Lee	Cantonese	89%
Yoko Ono	Japanese	89%
Genghis Khan	Mongolian	88%
Vlad Dracula	Romanian	87%
Tutankhamen	Egyptian: Tutankhamun probably primarily spoke a Middle- or Late-Egyptian variant of the Egyptian language	86%
Anne Frank	Dutch: She wrote her diary in Dutch but she could also speak German.	84%
Joseph Stalin	Georgian	84%
Moses	Hebrew	83%
Pele	Portuguese	80%
Frida Kahlo	Spanish: Frida was born in Mexico	77%
Hans Christian Andersen	Danish	76%
Rembrandt	Dutch	73%
Alexander the Great	Macedonian	72%
Ingrid Bergman	Swedish	71%
Nelson Mandela	Xhosa : He also spoke English	68%
William The Conqueror	Norman French: He spoke a composite language now called Norman French	67%
Malala Yousafzai	Urdu: She is also fluent in Pashto and English	66%
Jesus	Aramaic: Hebrew was the language of scholars and the scriptures. But Jesus's "everyday" spoken language would have been Aramaic.	62%
Mother Teresa	Albanian	61%
Mahatma Gandhi	Gujarati: He learned English as a Second Language and a South African dialect, Xhosa as a third.	51%
Leif Eriksson	Old Norse	50%
Hannibal	Phoenician / Punic: He spoke the Carthaginian dialect of Phoenician, commonly called Punic. He certainly spoke Greek. And given that he spent most of his adult life fighting in Spain and then in Italy, he must have picked up some Iberian and Italic dialects, and quite likely Latin.	42%
Atilla The Hun	Hunnic / Gothic	36%
Sitting Bull	Lakota	31%
The Buddha	Pali / Magahi: Pali is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language . It is the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism	14%
Adam and Eve	Adamic: The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden	6%