| Hint | Figure | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| He was defeated at Waterloo | Napoleon | 100%
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| Gravity discoverer | Isaac Newton | 97%
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| Fiddled while Rome burned | Nero | 93%
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| Tsar overthrown in 1917 | Nicholas II | 91%
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| "Not a crook" president | Richard Nixon | 91%
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| Victorious admiral at Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 88%
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| Dynamite inventor | Alfred Nobel | 86%
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| Most famous Egyptian queen, besides Cleopatra | Nefertiti | 83%
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| Founder of modern nursing | Florence Nightingale | 82%
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| 16th century Frenchman credited with predicting the future | Nostradamus | 74%
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| He claimed that God is dead | Friedrich Nietzsche | 73%
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| Greatest Spanish tennis player | Rafael Nadal | 73%
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| First prime minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | 66%
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| Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 60%
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| Russian author of "Lolita" | Vladimir Nabokov | 53%
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| Nepalese co-climber of Edmund Hillary | Tenzing Norgay | 50%
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| Panamanian dictator, 1983-89 | Manuel Noriega | 47%
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| Inventor of basketball | James Naismith | 36%
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| Golf's "Golden Bear" | Jack Nicklaus | 32%
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| Chilean poet who often wrote in green ink | Pablo Neruda | 31%
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