| Hint | Figure | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| He was looking for India but but found America instead | Christopher Columbus | 97%
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| The last pharaoh | Cleopatra | 94%
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| Stabbed on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 94%
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| British PM, 1940-1945 | Winston Churchill | 94%
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| "Great" empress of Russia | Catherine | 92%
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| Cuban leader of died in 2016 | Fidel Castro | 89%
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| "Great Sage" of Chinese philosophy | Confucius | 88%
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| Polish-French discoverer of Polonium | Marie Curie | 87%
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| British explorer who died in Hawaii | James Cook | 85%
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| King of the Franks from 768; founder of the Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne | 83%
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| Prohibition-era crime boss | Al Capone | 81%
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| Fashion designer who liberated women from "corseted silhouette" | Coco Chanel | 81%
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| "The Great Dictator" comic actor | Charlie Chaplin | 80%
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| Lord Protector of England, 1653-58 | Oliver Cromwell | 79%
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| Allowed Rome to become a Christian empire | Constantine | 68%
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| Conquered the Aztecs | Hernán Cortés | 66%
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| Discovered heliocentrism | Nicolaus Copernicus | 64%
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| First "Great" Persian king | Cyrus | 50%
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| French theologian for whom a branch of Christianity is named | John Calvin | 50%
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| Founder of modern Taiwan | Chiang Kai-shek | 44%
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