| Hint | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Leader of the 1979 revolution | Ruhollah Khomeini | 91%
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| Successor of the above who fought against the 300 Spartan soldiers | Xerxes the Great | 83%
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| Great king who established the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire | Cyrus the Great | 81%
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| Great king who ruled the empire at its greatest extent | Darius the Great | 78%
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| King the above overthrew during that revolution | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 73%
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| Spiritual leader who founded Zoroastrianism | Zoroaster | 71%
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| Former president and the current supreme leader of Iran | Ali Khamenei | 64%
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| General who was assassinated by U.S. drone strike near Baghdad in 2020 | Qasem Soleimani | 49%
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| President who died in a helicopter crash | Ebrahim Raisi | 45%
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| The controversial predecessor of the above | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 44%
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| Her death started a series of unrest in 2022 | Mahsa Amini | 44%
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| First football player to reach 100 international goals | Ali Daei | 40%
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| Democratically elected prime minister who was overthrown by the CIA in 1953 | Mohammad Mosaddegh | 40%
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| President who signed the nuclear deal | Hassan Rouhani | 38%
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| Polymath who wrote the first book on Algebra in which we are given the words "algebra" and "algorithm" | Al-{Khwarizmi} | 31%
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| Western name of the Islamic Golden age polymath, Abu Ali Sina or Ibn Sina | Avicenna | 31%
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| Author of the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, "Shahnameh" | Ferdowsi | 29%
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| Founder of the Bahá'í Faith | Bahá'u'lláh | 22%
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