50 Major Historical Figures - Statistics

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Hint	Person	% Correct
9) "Discovered" America for the Spanish crown	Christopher Columbus	96%
12) Military commander and Americas first president	George Washington	96%
8) Physicist who discovered the laws of motion	Isaac Newton	96%
4) The Christian Son of God who was crucified on thecross	Jesus	96%
33) US president who was assassinated in a Dallas motorcade	John F Kennedy	96%
34) Civil rights leader and political activist who gave hisI Have a Dream speech	Martin Luther King	96%
14) Tall president who was assassinated at Fords Theater	Abraham Lincoln	95%
29) Infamous leader of the Nazi party of Germany	Adolf Hitler	95%
39) She kept a dairy of her life while hidden in a secret attic inAmsterdam during WW2	Anne Frank	95%
23) His theory of evolution was inspired by wildlife in theremote Galapagos Islands	Charles Darwin	95%
37) Astronaut credited with being the first to walk on the Moon	Neil Armstrong	95%
6) Author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth	William Shakespeare	95%
38) Mongol leader who conquered much of Asia via pillages and thousands of killings	Genghis Khan	93%
19) Painted the Mona Lisa among other famous works	Leonardo DaVinci	93%
7) Rejected the Catholic church and started the ProtestantReformation in Europe	Martin Luther	93%
20) Painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David andthe Creation of Adam	Michelangelo	93%
32) Famously refused to give up her bus seat in racially segregatedMontgomery, AL	Rosa Parks	93%
22) Credited with the creation of the incandescent lightbulbfor commercial use	Thomas Edison	93%
1) Greek who conquered from Persia toIndia. Considered one of the greatest military leaders	Alexander the Great	91%
30) Served 4 terms during his time as US president	Franklin Roosevelt	91%
27) His assassination in 1914 Sarajevo ignited the first World War	Franz Ferdinand	91%
2) Fatally stabbed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	91%
35) President who resigned after the Watergate tapes scandal	Richard Nixon	91%
31) PM of Britain during WW2	Winston Churchill	91%
18) Famous Dutch painter who cut off part of his ear	Vincent Van Gogh	89%
36) Egyptian female pharaoh who had relationships with Caesarand Mark Antony	Cleopatra	87%
42) Teenage leader of a French rebellion against Britain in theHundred Years War	Joan of Arc	87%
13) President and author of the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	87%
44) Famous aviator who disappeared over the Pacific en routeback to the US	Amelia Earhart	85%
43) Automaker and pioneer of a moving assembly line, introducingthe Model T	Henry Ford	85%
49) Engineer often credited as the inventor of the first practicaltelephone	Alexander Graham Bell	84%
50) Indian lawyer who championed for Indias independence, creditedas one of the greatest civil rights activists	Gandhi	84%
28) Famous Chicago gangster during the 1920s Prohibition era	Al Capone	82%
26) Rough rider, president and overseer of the Panama Canal	Theodore Roosevelt	82%
47) Feared pirate who plundered the North Carolina coast aboardthe Queen Annes Revenge	Blackbeard	80%
46) Author of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	80%
21) Invented the first mechanical printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	80%
41) Serbian engineer credited with the invention of the AC currentand rival to Thomas Edison	Nikola Tesla	80%
3) Crossed the Alps by elephants to surprise the Romans	Hannibal	78%
15) Controversial founder of psychoanalytic theory	Sigmund Freud	76%
17) Patriot who was killed in a duel by rival Aaron Burr inNew York	Alexander Hamilton	75%
48) Pitcher and outfielder credited as the Home Run king and one of baseballs greatest players	Babe Ruth	75%
40) Wrote Pride and Prejudice among other famous works	Jane Austen	75%
10) Spanish leader who conquered the Aztecs	Hernan Cortes	67%
11) Portuguese explorer who first circumnavigated the globe	Ferdinand Magellan	65%
5) English monarch who was forced to sign the Magna Carta	King John	65%
45) Black ballplayer who broke the color barrier of majorleague baseball	Jackie Robinson	56%
16) Famously made a daring midnight ride into the countryside to warn colonists of the British invasion	Paul Revere	56%
25) Conquistador who defeated the Incas and establishedthe city of Lima	Francisco Pizarro	53%
24) Shoshone native who is credited with aiding the Lewisand Clark expedition to the Pacific	Sacagawea	51%

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