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#	Who They Are / What They Did	Person	% Correct
20	First Roman emperor	Augustus	100%
1	Messiah of Christianity	Jesus Christ	100%
48	Invented the airplane (two people)	Wright Brothers	95%
94	Musical composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	94%
71	First post-apartheid President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	94%
40	Helped invent the lightbulb and much more	Thomas Edison	93%
14	Led the Communist revolution in China	Mao Zedong	92%
6	Started WWII	Adolf Hitler	91%
34	Discovered evolution	Charles Darwin	91%
2	Founded Islam	Muhammad	90%
16	Conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture	Alexander the Great	89%
5	Rediscovered the New World	Christopher Columbus	89%
60	Led the U.S. through the Great Depression and WWII	Franklin Roosevelt	89%
92	Playwright	William Shakespeare	89%
10	Father of Communism	Karl Marx	88%
17	Led India to independence from the UK	Mohandas Gandhi	88%
37	Discovered relativity	Albert Einstein	87%
7	Conquered most of Asia	Genghis Khan	87%
91	Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	87%
22	Discovered calculus and the theory of gravitation	Isaac Newton	86%
59	Assembly line and automobile pioneer	Henry Ford	84%
12	Conquered most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	84%
53	Broke England away from the Catholic church	Henry VIII	83%
8	Invented the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	83%
26	Led the Communist revolution in Russia	V. I. Lenin	83%
44	Led the U.K. through WWII	Winston Churchill	83%
27	Helped Latin America achieve independence	Simón Bolívar	81%
4	Founded Buddhism	Buddha	80%
46	Led the U.S. through the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	79%
25	Expanded the Frankish empire	Charlemagne	79%
43	Unified Spain (two people)	Ferdinand & Isabella	79%
13	Won WWII, modernized the USSR, killed millions	Joseph Stalin	79%
9	Sparked the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	79%
23	Father of Western Philosophy	Plato	79%
31	Conquered Gaul. Became dictator of Rome	Julius Caesar	78%
88	Most prominent figure in the American Civil Rights movement	Martin Luther King, Jr.	78%
52	Made discoveries about radiation	Marie Curie	77%
24	Leader of the American revolution	George Washington	73%
73	Conquered the Aztecs	Hernán Cortés	73%
21	Conquered England	William the Conqueror	72%
35	Allowed Rome to become a Christian empire	Constantine	71%
93	Important artist and "Renaissance" man	Leonardo da Vinci	69%
78	Discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun	Nicolaus Copernicus	68%
42	Greatly expanded the Russian empire	Peter the Great	68%
87	Father of computer science	Alan Turing	67%
95	Renaissance artist	Michelangelo	67%
96	Probably the most influential painter of the 20th century	Pablo Picasso	67%
47	First to sail from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	67%
3	Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	62%
32	Improved the steam engine	James Watt	62%
69	Led Russia to become a great power	Catherine the Great	60%
76	Unified Germany under Prussian leadership	Otto von Bismarck	59%
70	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	56%
72	Conquered the Incas	Francisco Pizarro	56%
19	Started Taoism	Laozi	56%
15	Unified China	Qin Shi Huang	56%
45	Led England to a period of great discovery and prosperity	Queen Elizabeth I	56%
86	Emperor of Ethiopia, messiah of a minor religion	Haile Selassie	53%
99	19th century novelist	Charles Dickens	50%
50	Invented the smallpox vaccine	Edward Jenner	50%
57	Father of Geometry	Euclid	50%
28	Converted the Gentiles to Christianity	St. Paul	50%
39	Father of Economics	Adam Smith	48%
62	Discovered genetics	Gregor Mendel	47%
84	Invented the radio	Guglielmo Marconi	46%
66	First President of Indonesia	Sukarno	44%
11	Founded the Persian empire	Cyrus the Great	43%
38	Attempted a first comprehensive system of Western thought	Aristotle	39%
33	Made huge breakthroughs in disease prevention	Louis Pasteur	38%
65	Conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire	Mehmed the Conqueror	36%
36	Greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom	Ramesses II	36%
98	Pop musician	John Lennon	35%
68	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	James Maxwell	33%
30	Started the Crusades	Pope Urban II	33%
29	Started a once-popular religion called Zoroastrianism	Zoroaster	33%
49	To Sunnis, the fourth caliph; to shiites, the first imam	Ali	31%
82	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	31%
41	Conquered Central Asia in the late 1300s	Timur	30%
61	Made huge contributions to mathematics and philosophy in the 17th century	René Descartes	28%
83	Prophet who founded Manichaeism, a now extinct religion	Mani	27%
85	Founder of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	24%
79	Father of Modern Chemistry	Antoine Lavoisier	23%
18	Expanded the Maurya Empire to most of the Indian subcontinent	Ashoka	23%
77	Sometimes called the Father of Modern Science	Galileo Galilei	20%
67	Made important discoveries about electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	20%
75	Helped develop the Scientific Method	Francis Bacon	18%
55	Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	18%
100	20th century athlete	Pelé	15%
97	Arguably influenced pop culture more than anyone else	Walt Disney	14%
80	Improved the microscope. Observed single-celled organisms	Antony van Leeuwenhoek	13%
81	Promoted sterile surgery	Joseph Lister	12%
51	Preeminent mathematician of the 18th century	Leonhard Euler	11%
63	Founded the Umayyad caliphate	Muawiyah I	9%
90	Hero of Mexican independence	Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla	6%
56	Potentially saved hundreds of millions by improving crop yields	Norman Borlaug	6%
58	Emperor who led China to a golden age during the Tang dynasty	Taizong of Tang	6%
64	Conquered Persia and much of the Byzantine Empire	Umar	6%
54	Invented birth control	Gregory Pincus	0%
74	Founder of Jainism	Mahavira	0%
89	Helped overthrow the Shogunate in Japan	Sakamoto Ryōma	0%

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