| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Female pharaoh who formed a powerful strategic alliance with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony | Cleopatra | 97%
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| Prophet who founded Islam | Muhammad | 97%
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| Old Testament prophet said to have led the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt | Moses | 94%
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| Hip hop artist known for his on-stage alias Slim Shady | Eminem | 89%
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| Ancient Greek author of The Iliad and The Odyssey | Homer | 89%
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| Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 | Tutankhamen | 89%
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| Singer and actress whose hits include "Like a Prayer" and "Like a Virgin" | Madonna | 86%
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| Renaissance artist best known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 86%
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| Athenian moral philosopher known for his 'dialogues' and for being sentenced to death by drinking hemlock | Socrates | 86%
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| Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of U2 | Bono | 83%
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| Brazilian footballer who scored 1,279 goals throughout is professional career and later served as his country's Minister of Sports | Pelé | 83%
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| Ancient Greek polymath whose best known theorem is used to calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | Pythagoras | 83%
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| Brutal Roman emperor famously said to have fiddled while Rome burned | Nero | 81%
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| Roman emperor who commanded the construction of a famous wall in northern Britain to guard against Scottish raiders | Hadrian | 75%
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| Philosopher, student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great who founded the Lyceum | Aristotle | 72%
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| Native American woman from the Early Modern period whose life was recounted by the English colonist John Smith | Pocahontas | 72%
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| Japanese emperor during the Second World War | Hirohito | 69%
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| Former vocalist of the Black Eyed Peas whose singles include "Glamorous", "Clumsy" and "London Bridge" | Fergie | 67%
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| American singer whose hits include "I Got You Babe" and "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" | Cher | 64%
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| "Hotline Bling" rapper born Aubrey Graham | Drake | 64%
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| English singer and bassist who was the frontman of The Police | Sting | 64%
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| Early philosopher whose cultural teachings influence much of the social fabric of China and wider East Asia | Confucius | 61%
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| American singer who changed his name into a symbol | Prince | 61%
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| Carthaginian general who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae | Hannibal | 58%
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| Ancient Greek polymath after whom all medical doctors swear an oath to do no harm | Hippocrates | 58%
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| Old Testament prophet regarded as common patriarch of Christianity, Judaism and Islam | Abraham | 56%
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| Iceni queen who led an unsuccessful uprising against the Roman occupation forces in Britain | Boudica | 56%
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| French Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Candide | Voltaire | 56%
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| Tyrannical Roman emperor whose name literally means 'little boot' | Caligula | 47%
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| Ancient Greek mathematician remembered for devising the theory of water displacement | Archimedes | 42%
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| Influential warrior who led the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 until his assassination in 1828 | Shaka | 42%
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| Ancient Greek polymath known as 'the Father of History' | Herodotus | 28%
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| Roman poet whose Aeneid tells the story of the fall of Troy | Virgil | 28%
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| Revolutionary who served as Indonesia's first post-independence leader | Sukarno | 19%
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| Turco-Mongol emperor and military leader, sometimes nicknamed 'The Lame' | Tamerlane | 19%
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| 13th century poet and Sufi mystic widely regarded as one of the most significant figures of Persian literature | Rumi | 17%
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