| Hint | Figure | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Deaf German composer | Ludwig van Beethoven | 98%
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| Siddhārtha Gautama | Buddha | 94%
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| Often credited with inventing the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 91%
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| He founded Amazon.com | Jeff Bezos | 88%
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| Beheaded wife of Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn | 87%
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| "Liberator" of South America during the 19th century | Simón Bolívar | 87%
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| French emperor, 1804-1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 86%
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| Abraham Lincoln's assassin | John Wilkes Booth | 81%
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| "Jane Eyre" author | Charlotte Brontë | 71%
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| "Brandenburg Concertos" | J.S. Bach | 71%
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| Celtic queen who led a revolt against the Romans | Boudica | 65%
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| Successor of Krushchev | Leonid Brezhnev | 63%
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| "Iron Chancellor" who united Germany | Otto von Bismarck | 60%
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| Female Pakistani prime minister | Benazir Bhutto | 55%
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| Female lead in "Casablanca" | Ingrid Bergman | 52%
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| "Axis of Evil" president | George W. Bush | 33%
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| Father of rocket science | Wernher von Braun | 28%
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| Founder of Bahá'í Faith | {Bahá}'u'lláh | 27%
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| Former General-Secretary of the United Nations | Ban Ki-Moon | 22%
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| Greatest cricketer of all time | Donald Bradman | 19%
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