Historical Figures A to Z #3

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	Hint	Answer
A	Philosopher who schooled Alexander the Great	Aristotle
B	Famous WWII general nicknamed "Monty"	Bernard Montgomery
C	30th President of the USA, gained a reputation as a small-government conservative	Calvin Coolidge
D	Final Emperor of Persia	Darius III
E	Author of The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
F	German philosopher who said "God is dead"	Friedrich Nietzsche
G	Effigies of this fundamentalist terrorist are burned nationwide in the UK	Guy Fawkes
H	Created the Model T (and a failed worker town in Brazil named after him)	Henry Ford
I	Sci-Fi writer who was the professor of biochemistry at Boston University	Isaac Asimov
J	Seductive Queen of Israel who orchestrated an execution to secure a vineyard	Jezebel
K	Philosopher of science who created a criterion for falsifiability	Karl Popper
L	Communist leader under whom there was a era of stagnation	Leonid Brezhnev
M	Roman lawyer who coined the term "Summum Bonum" (trans. "highest good")	Marcus Tullius Cicero

	Hint	Answer
N	Christian wonderworker and the inspiration of Santa Claus	Saint Nicholas
O	Military dictator who executed Charles the I	Oliver Cromwell
P	c² = a² + b²	Pythagoras
Q	American composer who produced the charity song "We Are the World"	Quincy Jones
R	King of England who fought in the third crusade	Richard the Lionheart
S	Greek who wrote more than 120 plays, but only 7 were fully perserved	Sophocles
T	Inventor of the phonograph	Thomas Edison
U	The second Rashidun caliph	Umar ibn al-Khattab
V	Roman poet who guided Dante	Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
W	The most famous composer of all time	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
X	The Greek philosopher from before Socrates who wrote some of the earliest satires	Xenophanes
Y	Soviet particle accelerator physicist turned prisoner of conscience	Yuri Orlov
Z	Chinese polymath also known as Pingzi	Zhang Heng

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Level 74

Apr 17, 2026

It's "Montgomery" not "Montgomery"

Otherwise, good quiz!

Level 38

Apr 17, 2026

Fixed it

Level 74

May 1, 2026

Thanks for fixing the quiz!

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