| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| N | He fiddled while Rome burned down | Nero | 95%
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| K | Vocalist who popularized Grunge and unfortunately became a member of the 27 Club | Kurt Cobain | 86%
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| H | Leader of the SS | Heinrich Himmler | 82%
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| M | Final leader of the USSR | Mikhail Gorbachev | 77%
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| P | Missionary who rid Ireland of snakes | Saint Patrick | 73%
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| I | Author of James Bond & Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ian Fleming | 68%
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| J | American fashion icon & wife of former US president | Jacqueline Kennedy | 68%
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| C | Mad Roman Emperor who came after Tiberius and was assassinated | Caligula | 64%
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| R | Great Egyptian pharaoh who allegedly took part in the Exodus | Ramesses II | 59%
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| S | First king of the Zulu | Shaka | 45%
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| F | Abolitionist orator who escaped slavery in Maryland | Frederick Douglass | 41%
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| O | Irish poet and major figure in figure Aestheticism | Oscar Wilde | 41%
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| E | Queen of France & England whose sons fought in the Crusades and signed the Magna Carta | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 36%
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| T | Terrorist who wrote about the future of Industrial Society | Ted Kaczynski | 36%
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| U | Second king of the house of Savoy in Italy | Umberto I | 36%
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| W | Socialist American folk musician who wrote "This Land is Your Land" | Woody Guthrie | 36%
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| X | One of the Four Beauties of ancient China | Xi Shi | 36%
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| Y | Soviet Leader who came to power after the death of Brezhnev | Yuri Andropov | 36%
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| A | Great Ancient Indian emperor | Ashoka | 27%
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| D | Surrealist filmmaker who directed Eraserhead | David Lynch | 27%
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| L | Swiss polymath & founder of graph theory | Leonhard Euler | 27%
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| Z | Wife of Francis Scott Fitzgerald | Zelda Fitzgerald | 27%
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| G | Founder of calculus, who called our reality "the best of all possible worlds" | Gottfried Leibniz | 23%
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| B | Anglo-Saxon monk famously known as "The Father of English History" | Saint Bede | 23%
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| Q | Roman Dictator who invented the Fabian strategy while fighting Hannibal | Quintus Fabius Maximus | 18%
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