| Hint | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| French king who was beheaded | Louis XVI | 93%
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| Musical genius of Salzburg and Vienna | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 92%
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| Wife of the above, famously misquoted as saying "Let them eat cake" | Marie Antoinette | 87%
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| Writer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 86%
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| Mad king who lost Britain's American colonies | George III | 81%
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| Considered Russia's greatest female leader | Catherine the Great | 80%
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| British explorer who "discovered" Hawaii and was killed there | Captain Cook | 76%
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| Almanac maker and bifocals inventor | Benjamin Franklin | 64%
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| Author of "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith | 53%
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| "Incorruptible" French revolutionary with an affinity for the guillotine | Maximilien de Robespierre | 45%
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| Author of "Robinson Crusoe" | Daniel Defoe | 43%
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| Political theorist who wrote "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man" | Thomas Paine | 42%
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| The national poet of Scotland | Robert Burns | 41%
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| King who made Prussia a great power | Frederick the Great | 37%
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| Greatly improved the steam engine | James Watt | 36%
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| Wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Faust" | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 29%
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| Genevan philosopher who wrote about "The Social Contract" | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 26%
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| Invented the smallpox vaccine | Edward Jenner | 24%
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| Writer of the pre-eminent English dictionary (at the time) | Samuel Johnson | 21%
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| Britain's first prime minister (de facto) | Robert Walpole | 18%
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