| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Founding Father, first Secretary of the US Treasury, and the subject of a musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Alexander Hamilton | 97%
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| Macedonian military commander of antiquity who conquered much of Persia, Central and West Asia and Egypt | Alexander the Great | 93%
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| This scientist, widely credited with inventing the telephone, also founded AT&T in 1885 | Alexander Graham Bell | 90%
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| In 1928, this Scottish microbiologist discovered penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 79%
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| In 2021, this American actor was charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie Rust | Alec Baldwin | 76%
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| Canadian-American game show host, best known for presenting Jeopardy! | Alex Trebek | 62%
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| Between 1986 and 2013, this Scotsman was the manager of Manchester United, winning more trophies for the club than any other football manager in history | Alex Ferguson | 55%
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| Among this English actor's film credits are Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Alec Guinness | 52%
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| Swedish actor who featured as Lukas Matsson in Succession, brother of Bill and son of Stellan | Alexander Skarsgard | 41%
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| Conspiracy theorist who infamously claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax | Alex Jones | 41%
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| This authoritarian ruler and ally of Vladimir Putin has been President of Belarus since 1994 | Alexander Lukashenko | 38%
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| American general who served as Secretary of State during the first Reagan Administration | Alexander Haig | 34%
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| Russian dissident and critic of Vladimir Putin who died in suspicious circumstances in 2024 while incarcerated in a Siberian penal colony | Alexei Navalny | 34%
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| Ben Miller's comedy partner | Alexander Armstrong | 31%
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| British politician and former professional cricketer who briefly served as Prime Minister after the resignation of Harold Macmillan | Alec Douglas-Home | 28%
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| Prominent British fashion designer who committed suicide in 2010 | Alexander McQueen | 28%
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| "To err is human; to forgive divine", said this English poet famously | Alexander Pope | 24%
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| Russian poet and playwright, best known for his works "Boris Godunov" and "Eugene Onegin" | Alexander Pushkin | 24%
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| English screenwriter whose film writing credits include The Beach, 28 Days Later and Civil War | Alex Garland | 24%
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| First Minister of Scotland during the unsuccessful 2014 independence referendum | Alex Salmond | 24%
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| This lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys also features in the English supergroup The Last Shadow Puppets | Alex Turner | 21%
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| Scottish author who wrote the "No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" book series | Alexander McCall Smith | 17%
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| Dissident Soviet writer who chronicled political repression in the USSR in "The Gulag Archipelago" | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 17%
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| President of Finland since 2024 | Alexander Stubb | 14%
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| 18th century romantic Russian composer who wrote "In the Steppes of Central Asia" and the opera "Prince Igor" | Alexander Borodin | 10%
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