| Clue | Figure | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| N | French conqueror who saw his last defeat at Waterloo | Napoleon | 98%
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| G | Indian pacifist who led India to independence | Mohandas Gandhi | 94%
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| A | First man on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 91%
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| E | German scientist famous for the theory E=mc | Albert Einstein | 90%
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| T | Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922 | Tutankhamun | 89%
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| N | 17th century English physicist who discovered gravity | Isaac Newton | 87%
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| N | American president who resigned after Watergate | Richard Nixon | 87%
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| A | Greek conqueror whose empire extended to India | Alexander the Great | 84%
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| E | Aviatrix who disappeared in 1937 | Amelia Earhart | 83%
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| S | Greek philosopher who was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock | Socrates | 81%
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| H | Emperor of Japan during World War II | Hirohito | 79%
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| C | Probably China's most influential philosopher | Confucius | 78%
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| E | Her father was Henry VIII and her mother Anne Boleyn | Elizabeth I | 78%
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| O | Assassin of John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald | 78%
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| I | Spanish Queen of Castille who married the King of Aragon | Isabella I of Castille | 77%
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| A | Hun called the "Scourge of God" | Attila | 75%
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| N | British admiral who won the Battle of Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 75%
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| T | British Prime Minister during Falkland War | Margaret Thatcher | 74%
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| B | "Liberator" of South and Central America | Simón Bolívar | 73%
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| I | Russian Tsar whose reign saw the conquest of Siberia | Ivan the Terrible | 71%
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| R | Dutch Golden Age painter of "The Night Watch" | Rembrandt | 69%
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| T | Exiled Soviet leader assassinated in Mexico | Leon Trotsky | 62%
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| T | Escaped American slave who rescued 70 others | Harriet Tubman | 61%
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| X | Persian emperor who failed to conquer Greece | Xerxes the Great | 60%
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| quote | Nothing is certain but death and taxes | 56%
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| D | Portuguese captain who was the first to sail directly from Europe to India | Vasco da Gama | 55%
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| A | Founding father of secular Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 53%
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| T | Roman Emperor who came after Augustus | Tiberius | 51%
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| U | Pope who called for and launched the First Crusade | Urban II | 50%
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| H | Babylonian king whose code decreed "an eye for an eye" | Hammurabi | 46%
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| D | King who ruled the Persian Empire at its peak | Darius the Great | 44%
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| S | Author of "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith | 41%
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| I | Ancient Egyptian who has been called history's first architect and doctor | Imhotep | 33%
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