| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| A | Philosopher who schooled Alexander the Great | Aristotle | 96%
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| H | Created the Model T (and a failed worker town in Brazil named after him) | Henry Ford | 86%
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| P | c² = a² + b² | Pythagoras | 79%
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| R | King of England who fought in the third crusade | Richard the Lionheart | 79%
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| W | The most famous composer of all time | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 71%
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| E | Author of The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 68%
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| N | Christian wonderworker and the inspiration of Santa Claus | Saint Nicholas | 68%
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| C | 30th President of the USA, gained a reputation as a small-government conservative | Calvin Coolidge | 64%
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| G | Effigies of this fundamentalist terrorist are burned nationwide in the UK | Guy Fawkes | 64%
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| T | Inventor of the phonograph | Thomas Edison | 61%
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| D | Final Emperor of Persia | Darius III | 57%
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| Q | American composer who produced the charity song "We Are the World" | Quincy Jones | 57%
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| F | German philosopher who said "God is dead" | Friedrich Nietzsche | 54%
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| I | Sci-Fi writer who was the professor of biochemistry at Boston University | Isaac Asimov | 54%
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| O | Military dictator who executed Charles the I | Oliver Cromwell | 54%
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| V | Roman poet who guided Dante | Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) | 46%
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| J | Seductive Queen of Israel who orchestrated an execution to secure a vineyard | Jezebel | 39%
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| L | Communist leader under whom there was a era of stagnation | Leonid Brezhnev | 36%
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| S | Greek who wrote more than 120 plays, but only 7 were fully perserved | Sophocles | 32%
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| B | Famous WWII general nicknamed "Monty" | Bernard Montgomery | 18%
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| M | Roman lawyer who coined the term "Summum Bonum" (trans. "highest good") | Marcus Tullius Cicero | 14%
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| U | The second Rashidun caliph | Umar ibn al-Khattab | 14%
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| K | Philosopher of science who created a criterion for falsifiability | Karl Popper | 11%
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| X | The Greek philosopher from before Socrates who wrote some of the earliest satires | Xenophanes | 11%
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| Y | Soviet particle accelerator physicist turned prisoner of conscience | Yuri Orlov | 7%
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| Z | Chinese polymath also known as Pingzi | Zhang Heng | 4%
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