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- This quiz has been taken 710 times
- The average score is 14 of 30
Answer Stats
| Country | Clue | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | "Mona Lisa" painter | Leonardo da Vinci | 100%
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| Germany | History's most infamous German | Adolf Hitler | 96%
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| Italy | Fascist dictator | Benito Mussolini | 96%
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| Cuba | Dictator and cigar aficionado | Fidel Castro | 96%
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| France | French President since 2017 | Emmanuel Macron | 95%
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| France | Corsican conqueror of Europe | Napoleon | 95%
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| Germany | Composer of "Moonlight Sonata" who went deaf | Ludwig van Beethoven | 92%
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| South Africa | President who was jailed for 27 years in Robben Island | Nelson Mandela | 92%
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| United States | World's richest person until 2017 | Bill Gates | 91%
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| United States | Refused to give up her bus seat | Rosa Parks | 91%
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| Russia | Current President | Vladimir Putin | 91%
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| Canada | Singer with over 90 million Twitter followers | Justin Bieber | 90%
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| Canada | Prime Minister since 2015 | Justin Trudeau | 90%
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| Egypt | Lover of Caesar and Mark Antony | Cleopatra | 89%
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| United States | "King of Rock and Roll" | Elvis Presley | 89%
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| United States | Military general who became the First President | George Washington | 89%
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| Colombia | Her hips don't lie | Shakira | 89%
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| Sweden | Group whose songs are sung in "Mamma Mia!" | ABBA | 88%
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| Jamaica | Most famous Reggae singer | Bob Marley | 88%
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| Israel | Founder of Christianity | Jesus | 88%
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| Jamaica | The fastest sprinter of all time | Usain Bolt | 88%
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| Netherlands | WWII attic diarist | Anne Frank | 87%
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| Canada | "My Heart Will Go On" singer | Celine Dion | 87%
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| Italy | Genovese explorer who "Discovered" the New World | Christopher Columbus | 87%
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| Portugal | Most famous footballer | Cristiano Ronaldo | 87%
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| France | Warrior, burned at the stake | Joan of Arc | 86%
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| Argentina | Six-time Ballon d'Or winner | Lionel Messi | 86%
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| Germany | First female Chancellor | Angela Merkel | 85%
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| India | Leader of Indian Independence | Mahatma Gandhi | 85%
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| Germany | Protestant Reformation starter | Martin Luther | 85%
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| England | "The Virgin Queen" | Elizabeth I | 84%
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| Saudi Arabia | Prophet born in Mecca in 570 AD who founded Islam | Muhammad | 84%
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| Netherlands | Painter of "The Starry Night" who cut his ear off | Vincent van Gogh | 84%
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| United States | Aviatrix who disappeared in 1937 | Amelia Earhart | 83%
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| Japan | Emperor during the World War II | Hirohito | 83%
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| Brazil | Only player to have won three World Cups | Pelé | 82%
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| Romania | Count inspired by the above | Count Dracula | 81%
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| Canada | "Titanic" and "Avatar" director | James Cameron | 81%
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| Poland | The only Polish pope | John Paul II | 79%
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| Israel | Slew Goliath | King David | 79%
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| Austria | Guillotined wife of Louis XVI | Marie Antoinette | 79%
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| Poland | Radiation researcher | Marie Curie | 79%
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| Albania | Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun | Mother Teresa | 79%
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| Austria | Father of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 79%
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| Japan | Wife of John Lennon | Yoko Ono | 79%
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| Sweden | Peace Prize namesake | Alfred Nobel | 78%
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| Argentina | Pope born in Argentina | Francis | 78%
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| Serbia | Alternating Current inventor | Nikola Tesla | 78%
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| Romania | Medieval ruler known for impaling his enemies | Vlad the Impaler | 78%
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| Germany | "Das Kapital" | Karl Marx | 77%
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| China | "Great Leap Forward" | Mao Zedong | 77%
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| Greece | Philosopher who drank hemlock | Socrates | 77%
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| England | Singer of "Hello" and "Rolling in the Deep" | Adele | 76%
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| Kenya | Father of a U.S. President | Barack Obama Sr. | 76%
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| Austria | Composer of "The Magic Flute" and "Turkish March" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 76%
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| Russia | "Great" female tsar | Catherine II | 75%
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| Argentina | Scored the "Goal of the Century" | Diego Maradona | 75%
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| Ireland | Lead singer of U2 | Bono | 74%
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| Denmark | Shakespearean Danish Prince | Hamlet | 74%
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| Greece | Conqueror of Persia | Alexander | 73%
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| England | "Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher | 73%
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| South Korea | "Gangnam Style" rapper | PSY | 73%
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| Iraq | Dictator of Iraq, 1979-2003 | Saddam Hussein | 72%
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| Mexico | Unibrowed painter | Frida Kahlo | 71%
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| Ireland | "Taken" and "Schindler's List" star | Liam Neeson | 70%
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| Colombia | Drug lord of Medellín | Pablo Escobar | 70%
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| Serbia | "Benevolent dictator" of Yugoslavia, 1953-80 | Josip Broz Tito | 69%
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| Scotland | 16th century Queen of Scots | Mary | 69%
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| Russia | First Premier of the USSR | Vladimir Lenin | 69%
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| China | Most famous philosopher | Confucius | 68%
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| India | Siddhārtha Gautama | Buddha | 67%
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| Argentina | Marxist revolutionary murdered in Bolivia in 1967 | Che Guevara | 67%
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| Ukraine | Exiled Soviet leader assassinated in Mexico | Leon Trotsky | 67%
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| Belgium | King who owned / misused Congo | Leopold II | 67%
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| France | "Les Misérables" | Victor Hugo | 67%
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| Turkey | President since 2014 | Recep Erdoğan | 66%
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| Venezuela | "Liberator" of South America | Simón Bolívar | 66%
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| South Korea | Today's most popular boy band | BTS | 65%
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| Denmark | Fairy tale writer | H.C. Andersen | 65%
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| Belgium | Loinclothed, high-kicking martial artist, aka JCVD | Jean-Claude Van Damme | 63%
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| France | Fashion designer who collaborated with the Nazis | Coco Chanel | 62%
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| Portugal | Explorer who started world's first circumnavigation | Ferdinand Magellan | 62%
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| Spain | 20th century dictator | Francisco Franco | 62%
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| England | Lord Protector of England, 1653-58 | Oliver Cromwell | 62%
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| Spain | "King of Clay" tennis player | Rafael Nadal | 62%
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| Wales | Real Madrid paid £85 million for him | Gareth Bale | 61%
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| Belgium | Fictional detective | Hercule Poirot | 60%
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| Turkey | Founding father of the modern Republic of Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 60%
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| Switzerland | 20x tennis Grand Slam winner | Roger Federer | 60%
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| Kenya | Child of Mufasa and Sarabi | Simba | 60%
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| Spain | Queen who ruled with Ferdinand | Isabella | 59%
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| Australia | The Crocodile Hunter | Steve Irwin | 59%
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| Norway | He painted "The Scream" | Edvard Munch | 58%
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| England | Director of "Psycho" | Alfred Hitchcock | 57%
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| Wales | "Matilda" and "The BFG" author | Roald Dahl | 57%
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| D.R. Congo | He swings from vine to vine | Tarzan | 57%
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| Haiti | Dictator known as "Papa Doc" | François Duvalier | 56%
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| Ireland | Author of "Ulysses" | James Joyce | 56%
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| Serbia | Winner of 17 tennis Grand Slams | Novak Djokovic | 56%
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| Ireland | Victorian playwright sentenced to hard labour for being gay | Oscar Wilde | 56%
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| Colombia | Buxom star of "Modern Family" | Sofía Vergara | 56%
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| Scotland | Discovered penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 55%
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| Sweden | Won Wimbledon 5 straight times | Björn Borg | 55%
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| Israel | "Wonder Woman" | Gal Gadot | 55%
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| Brazil | Supermodel married to Tom Brady | Gisele Bündchen | 55%
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| Poland | Creator of the heliocentric model of the solar system | Nicolaus Copernicus | 55%
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| Brazil | 3-time F1 champion died in 1994 | Ayrton Senna | 53%
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| Australia | Actor who played the Joker | Heath Ledger | 53%
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| New Zealand | "Lord of the Rings" director | Peter Jackson | 53%
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| Ireland | World's best-selling Celtic singer | Enya | 52%
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| Czech Republic | "The Metamorphosis" author | Franz Kafka | 52%
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| Israel | Israel's first female Prime Minister | Golda Meir | 52%
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| Wales | First Tudor King | Henry VII | 52%
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| Iran | Leader of the 1979 revolution | Ruhollah Khomeini | 52%
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| Wales | British officer who helped Arabs revolt in WWI | T. E. Lawrence | 52%
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| Portugal | Sailed from Europe to India | Vasco da Gama | 51%
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| Chile | Chilean dictator, 1974-1990 | Augusto Pinochet | 50%
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| South Africa | Nobel Prize winning bishop | Desmond Tutu | 50%
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| Norway | Discovered Greenland | Erik the Red | 50%
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| Russia | "Crime and Punishment" | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 50%
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| Russia | Photogenic winner of 5 tennis Grand Slam titles | Maria Sharapova | 50%
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| New Zealand | "Gladiator" actor | Russell Crowe | 50%
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| Ethiopia | Last Emperor of Ethiopia | Haile Selassie | 48%
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| Poland | Solidarity leader and President | Lech Wałęsa | 48%
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| Egypt | Liverpool FC forward | Mohamed Salah | 48%
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| India | Author of "The Satanic Verses" | Salman Rushdie | 48%
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| Japan | Longest-serving Prime Minister | Shinzo Abe | 48%
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| Italy | "Marriage Italian-Style" actress | Sophia Loren | 48%
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| Canada | "The Great One" | Wayne Gretzky | 48%
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| Switzerland | Folk hero and apple shooter | William Tell | 48%
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| New Zealand | Legendary mountain climber who died in 2008 | Edmund Hillary | 47%
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| Philippines | Former first lady / shoe collector | Imelda Marcos | 47%
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| New Zealand | Teenage singer, sang "Royals" | Lorde | 47%
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| Ukraine | Voice of Family Guy's Meg | Mila Kunis | 47%
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| South Africa | "Monster" actress | Charlize Theron | 46%
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| Pakistan | Youngest Nobel Prize winner | Malala Yousafzai | 46%
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| Spain | Author of history's first modern novel, "Don Quixote" | Miguel de Cervantes | 46%
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| Mexico | Aztec emperor killed in 1520 | Moctezuma II | 46%
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| Sweden | Female lead in "Casablanca" | Ingrid Bergman | 45%
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| China | "Charlie's Angels"/ "Kill Bill" actress | Lucy Liu | 45%
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| Scotland | Hero portrayed in "Braveheart" | William Wallace | 45%
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| Cuba | Half of her "heart is in Havana" | Camila Cabello | 44%
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| Argentina | Popular First Lady of the 1950s | Eva Perón | 44%
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| Venezuela | Popular President, 1999–2012 | Hugo Chávez | 44%
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| Nigeria | Soulful "Smooth Operator" singer | Sade | 44%
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| Iraq | Sailor of the seven seas | Sinbad | 44%
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| Pakistan | Only female Prime Minister | Benazir Bhutto | 42%
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| Hungary | "Hungarian Rhapsody" | Franz Liszt | 42%
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| Peru | Friendly bear from "darkest Peru" | Paddington Bear | 42%
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| Hungary | Prime Minister since 2010 | Viktor Orbán | 42%
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| Scotland | Creator of Sherlock Holmes, first mentioned it in "A Study in Scarlet" | Arthur Conan Doyle | 41%
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| Serbia | Franz Ferdinand assassin | Gavrilo Princip | 41%
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| Australia | "Neighbours" actress and "Showgirl" singer | Kylie Minogue | 41%
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| Romania | Most famous gymnast | Nadia Comăneci | 41%
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| Venezuela | President of Venezuela, 2013– | Nicolás Maduro | 41%
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| Iraq | "An eye for an eye" king | Hammurabi | 40%
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| Switzerland | Goat-herding girl of the Alps | Heidi | 40%
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| Switzerland | e = 2.71828... | Leonhard Euler | 40%
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| Iraq | Architect who shares her last name with a famous Gigi | Zaha Hadid | 40%
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| Austria | Symbolist painter of "The Kiss" | Gustav Klimt | 39%
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| Wales | Legendary mythical king | King Arthur | 39%
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| Ethiopia | He is a "Starboy" | The Weeknd | 39%
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| Iran | King who invaded Greece | Xerxes the Great | 39%
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| Hungary | Actress who married 9-times | Zsa Zsa Gábor | 39%
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| Algeria | Famous footballer named Karim | Karim Benzema | 38%
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| Spain | Javier Bardem's wife | Penélope Cruz | 38%
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| Norway | Led the first expedition to the South Pole | Roald Amundsen | 38%
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| Greece | Lesbian poet, circa 600 B.C. | Sappho | 38%
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| Belgium | Current Real Madrid number 7 | Eden Hazard | 37%
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| Colombia | Footballer known as "James" | James Rodríguez | 37%
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| Ukraine | Famous boxing brothers | Klitschko Brothers | 37%
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| Philippines | Most famous boxer | Manny Pacquiao | 37%
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| Kenya | First President of Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta | 36%
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| Italy | Radio pioneer | Guglielmo Marconi | 35%
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| Finland | "Finlandia" composer | Jean Sibelius | 35%
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| Australia | WikiLeaks leader | Julian Assange | 35%
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| Ethiopia | Oldest human fossil | Lucy | 35%
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| South Korea | Self-proclaimed religious messiah who died in 2012 | Sun Myung Moon | 35%
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| Scotland | Young Obi-Wan Kenobi actor | Ewan McGregor | 34%
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| Egypt | President who was overthrown during Arab Spring in 2011 | Hosni Mubarak | 33%
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| India | Sitarist who collaborated with George Harrison | Ravi Shankar | 33%
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| South Africa | Zulu warrior king | Shaka | 33%
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| Kenya | "12 Years a Slave" actress | Lupita Nyong'o | 32%
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| Haiti | Fugees singer of "Sweetest Girl" | Wyclef Jean | 32%
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| Greece | Jackie Kennedy's 2nd husband | Aristotle Onassis | 31%
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| Greece | Painter who relocated to Toledo, Spain | El Greco | 31%
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| Mexico | One name singer, killed in 1995 | Selena | 31%
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| Jamaica | Rapper who got caught cheating and said "it wasn't me" | Shaggy | 31%
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| Egypt | President assassinated in 1981 | Anwar Sadat | 30%
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| Colombia | Author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" | Gabriel García Márquez | 30%
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| Chile | Portrays "The Mandalorian" | Pedro Pascal | 30%
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| Israel | Peace Prize-winning leader assassinated in 1995 | Yitzhak Rabin | 30%
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| Netherlands | "Discovered" New Zealand | Abel Tasman | 29%
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| Saudi Arabia | Founder of Saudi Arabia | Ibn Saud | 29%
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| South Africa | Former president, 2009-18 | Jacob Zuma | 29%
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| Australia | First and only female PM | Julia Gillard | 29%
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| Finland | F1 World Champion in 2007 | Kimi Räikkönen | 29%
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| Saudi Arabia | He lost citizenship in 1994 | Osama bin Laden | 29%
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| Netherlands | "The Night Watch" painter | Rembrandt | 29%
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| Turkey | "Magnificent" Ottoman sultan | Suleiman I | 29%
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| Denmark | Explorer and namesake of a strait | Vitus Bering | 29%
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| Taiwan | Director of "Life of Pi" | Ang Lee | 28%
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| Taiwan | Kuomintang leader | Chiang Kai-shek | 28%
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| Poland | "Minute Waltz" composer | Frédéric Chopin | 28%
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| Portugal | 2000-01 footballer of the year | Luìs Figo | 28%
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| Serbia | First President, 1991-97 | Slobodan Milošević | 28%
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| South Korea | Former UN General-Secretary | Ban Ki-Moon | 27%
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| Pakistan | Lawyer who is considered as Founder of Pakistan | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 27%
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| Brazil | "Fruit Hat Lady" | Carmen Miranda | 26%
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| China | Led China towards a market economy from 1978 to 1992 | Deng Xiaoping | 26%
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| Cuba | Latin band leader and husband of Lucille Ball | Desi Arnaz | 26%
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| Cuba | Dictator overthrown in 1959 | Fulgencio Batista | 26%
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| Cuba | Miami Sound Machine singer | Gloria Estefan | 26%
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| Finland | Hard rock band that won the 2006 Eurovision | Lordi | 26%
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| Czech Republic | World number one female tennis player in the late 70s | Martina Navrátilová | 26%
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| Netherlands | Exotic dancer executed for spying | Mata Hari | 26%
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| Albania | Singer of "New Rules" | Dua Lipa | 25%
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| Nigeria | NBA plater known as "The Dream" | Hakeem Olajuwon | 25%
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| Chile | Poet and 1971 Nobel Prize winner | Pablo Neruda | 25%
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| Iran | Founder of Achaemenid Empire | Cyrus the Great | 24%
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| Hungary | Billionaire who is frequently blamed for all the world's ills | George Soros | 24%
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| Taiwan | Basketball player who sparked "insanity" in New York | Jeremy Lin | 24%
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| Brazil | Popular President, 2002-11 | Lula da Silva | 24%
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| Denmark | Existential philosopher who wrote "Either/Or" | Søren Kierkegaard | 24%
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| Haiti | Leader of the Haitian Revolution | Toussaint Louverture | 24%
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| Saudi Arabia | His successor (to Shias) | Ali | 23%
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| Czech Republic | "New World Symphony" composer | Antonín Dvořák | 23%
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| D.R. Congo | Played 18 seasons in NBA | Dikembe Mutombo | 23%
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| Norway | "A Doll's House" playwright | Henrik Ibsen | 23%
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| China | 7'6" basketball player | Yao Ming | 23%
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| Egypt | History's first architect and doctor | Imhotep | 22%
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| Jamaica | "Got 2 Luv U" and "No Lie" singer | Sean Paul | 22%
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| Algeria | Author of "The Stranger" | Albert Camus | 21%
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| Iran | Great king who ruled the empire at its greatest extent | Darius the Great | 21%
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| Austria | Scarred F1 driver | Niki Lauda | 21%
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| Algeria | Football national team captain | Riyad Mahrez | 21%
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| Iran | Prophet also called Zarathustra | Zoroaster | 21%
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| Ukraine | Winner of Ballon d'Or in 2004 | Andriy Shevchenko | 20%
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| Pakistan | Prime Minister since 2018 | Imran Khan | 19%
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| Romania | Last king of Romania | Michael | 19%
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| Denmark | Current monarch | Margrethe II | 18%
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| Hungary | First king of Hungary | Stephen I | 18%
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| Japan | Creator of "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro" | Hayao Miyazaki | 17%
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| Japan | Seattle Mariners baseball icon | Ichiro Suzuki | 17%
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| Mexico | Mexican general who raided the U.S. in 1916 | Pancho Villa | 17%
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| Belgium | Painter who says what a pipe isn't | René Magritte | 17%
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| Peru | Retired striker of Bayern Munich | Claudio Pizarro | 16%
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| Switzerland | Philosopher who influenced the French Revolution | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 16%
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| Czech Republic | "Cuckoo's Nest" director | Miloš Forman | 16%
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| Philippines | Controversial current President | Rodrigo Duterte | 16%
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| Czech Republic | Writer and President, 1993-2003 | Václav Havel | 16%
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| India | "Great" Mauryan Emperor | Ashoka | 15%
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| Sweden | Author of the "Millennium" series | Stieg Larsson | 15%
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| South Korea | Figure skater called the “Queen” | Yuna Kim | 15%
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| Mexico | World's richest person, 2010-13 | Carlos Slim | 14%
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| New Zealand | Father of nuclear physics | Ernest Rutherford | 14%
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| Turkey | Main hero of Troy | Hector | 14%
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| Turkey | Surgeon who appears on Oprah | Mehmet Oz | 14%
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| Saudi Arabia | Monarch who died in 2015 | Abdullah | 13%
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| Portugal | Current General-Secretary of UN | António Guterres | 13%
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| Jamaica | "Slave to the Rhythm" singer | Grace Jones | 13%
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| Romania | Communist leader, 1965-89 | Nicolae Ceaușescu | 13%
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| Ukraine | 1994 figure skating champion | Oksana Baiul | 13%
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| Kenya | World record holder in the marathon, with a time of 2:01:39 | Eliud Kipchoge | 12%
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| Philippines | President during WWII, namesake of the biggest Manila suburb | Manuel L. Quezon | 11%
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| Chile | "Warrior" Inter Milan midfielder | Arturo Vidal | 10%
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| Finland | Linux operating system creator | Linus Torvalds | 10%
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| Ethiopia | Barefoot Olympic marathoner | Abebe Bikila | 9%
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| Nigeria | Actor playing Solomon Northup in "12 Years a Slave" | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 9%
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| Ethiopia | Marathoner with almost the same name as the above | Haile Gebrselassie | 9%
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| Algeria | Dictator since 1999 who was overthrown in 2019 | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | 8%
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| Albania | Dictator of Albania, 1944-85 | Enver Hoxha | 8%
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| Albania | "Hot Right Now" pop singer | Rita Ora | 8%
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| Algeria | Bishop who wrote "Confessions" | St. Augustine | 8%
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| Taiwan | Currency President of Taiwan | Tsai Ing-wen | 8%
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| Peru | President who was convicted of human rights abuses | Alberto Fujimori | 6%
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| Venezuela | Fashion designer who dresses the U.S. first ladies | Carolina Herrera | 6%
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| Nigeria | Musician who popularised Afrobeat | Fela Kuti | 6%
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| Finland | Creator of the "Moomins" | Tove Jansson | 6%
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| Philippines | Actor-singer in Glee | Charice | 5%
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| Iraq | King who conquered Judah | Nebuchadnezzar | 4%
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| Pakistan | President who resigned in 2008 | Pervez Musharraf | 4%
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| Norway | 3x Olympic figure skating champion | Sonja Henie | 4%
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| Peru | Last Inca Emperor | Atahualpa | 3%
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| D.R. Congo | Singer of "Bella" (2013) | Maître Gims | 3%
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| Venezuela | Won 2012 baseball Triple Crown | Miguel Cabrera | 3%
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| D.R. Congo | President of Zaire, 1965–1997 | Mobutu Sese Seko | 3%
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| Nigeria | "Lotus Flower Bomb" rapper | Wale | 3%
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| D.R. Congo | Utah Jazz NBA player | Emmanuel Mudiay | 0%
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| Haiti | "Jamie Foxx Show" Fancy actress | Garcelle Beauvais | 0%
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| Peru | Inca god of sun | Inti | 0%
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| Haiti | Haiti's first democratically-elected President, in 1991 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | 0%
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| Chile | First Marxist to be democratically elected president | Salvador Allende | 0%
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| Albania | Military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottomans | Skanderbeg | 0%
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| Taiwan | Founder of Foxconn | Terry Gou | 0%
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