| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| English playwright behind Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and many others | William Shakespeare | 98%
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| Starting from the steppes of Mongolia, he took over most of Asia | Genghis Khan | 94%
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| Renaissance sculptor behind the statue David | Michelangelo | 93%
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| Sought to reform the church causing the reformation | Martin Luther | 91%
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| Italian explorer who tried and failed to find a new route to Asia for spices | Christopher Columbus | 88%
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| Invented the printing press | Johannes Gutenberg | 87%
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| Italian explorer who made it to China across the silk roads | Marco Polo | 86%
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| Prototypical Renaissance man | Leonardo DaVinci | 85%
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| Queen who united Spain with her marriage to King Ferdinand | Queen Isabella | 84%
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| Burned hundreds of dissenters at the stake in an attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which was started by her father Henry VIII | Queen Mary | 72%
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| The first Holy Roman Emperor | Charlemagne | 67%
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| The father of political science who wrote The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 63%
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| Conquistador who took over the Incan Empire | Francisco Pizarro | 61%
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| Pope who ordered the first crusade to take back the Holy Lands | Pope Urban II | 55%
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| Sultan who united much of the Middle East and successfully repelled the Third Crusade | Saladin | 54%
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| Created laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler | 38%
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| Chinese naval commander and explorer who made 7 journeys through much of the Indian Ocean | Zheng He | 32%
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| Moroccan explorer and scholar | Ibn Battuta | 22%
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| Empress of China during the Tang Dynasty, one of the most effective rulers in Chinese history | Empress Wu Zetian | 20%
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