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50 Most Important People in Chicago History - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 67 times
- The average score is 17 of 50
Answer Stats
| Known For | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Notorious Gangster | Al Capone | 92%
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| Chicago Bulls / Sneakers | Michael Jordan | 83%
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| Former U.S. President | Barack Obama | 79%
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| Mickey Mouse | Walt Disney | 77%
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| Secretary of State / First Lady | Hillary Clinton | 69%
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| Media Executive and Talk-show Host | Oprah Winfrey | 69%
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| Chicago Mayor / Democratic National Convention | Richard J. Daley | 69%
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| Longest Serving Chicago Mayor | Richard M. Daley | 69%
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| Chewing Gum | William Wrigley Jr. | 69%
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| World Renowned Architect / Prairie School | Frank Lloyd Wright | 63%
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| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 62%
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| Movie Critic | Roger Ebert | 54%
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| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 50%
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| "Mr. Cub" | Ernie Banks | 48%
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| Illinois Senator / Lincoln Rival | Stephen A. Douglas | 46%
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| Physicist / Creator of First Nuclear Reactor | Enrico Fermi | 44%
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| Hull House | Jane Addams | 40%
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| Nation of Islam Leader | Louis Farrakhan | 40%
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| First African-American Mayor | Harold Washington | 38%
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| Civil Rights Activist / Minister / Politician | Jesse Jackson Sr. | 38%
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| "Papa Bear" | George Halas | 37%
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| Prominent Lawyer / Scopes Trial | Clarence Darrow | 29%
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| Department Stores / Philanthropy | Marshall Field | 29%
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| Chicago Blues | Muddy Waters | 27%
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| Poet and Lincoln Biographer / "City of Big Shoulders" | Carl Sandburg | 25%
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| Inventor / Mechanical Reaper | Cyrus McCormick | 25%
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| Newspaper Magnate | Robert R. McCormick | 25%
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| Socialist Party of America | Eugene V. Debs | 23%
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| "Founder of Chicago" | Jean Baptiste Point DuSable | 23%
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| Conservative Economist | Milton Friedman | 23%
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| Magazine Publisher | Hugh Hefner | 21%
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| Nation of Islam / Mentor to Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali | Elijah Muhammad | 17%
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| Mid-20th Century Progressive Politician | Adlai Stevenson II | 15%
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| First Female African-American Senator | Carol Moseley Braun | 15%
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| Posthumous Icon of the Civil Rights Movement | Emmett Till | 15%
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| World's Columbian Exposition Architect | Daniel Burnham | 13%
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| Doomed Industrialist / Worker Strikes | George Pullman | 13%
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| "Father of Skyscrapers" | Louis Sullivan | 13%
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| Two-time Secretary of Defense / Conservative Politician | Donald Rumsfeld | 12%
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| Black Panther Party | Fred Hampton | 12%
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| Modernist Architecture | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | 12%
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| Journalist / NAACP Co-founder | Ida B. Wells | 10%
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| Pragmatism | John Dewey | 8%
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| The Man With the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren | 8%
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| Fiction Writer / Three National Book Awards | Saul Bellow | 8%
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| Meat Industry Magnate | Gustavus Swift | 6%
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| King of Soul | Sam Cooke | 6%
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| Blues and Rock and Roll Pioneer | Bo Diddley | 2%
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| Sears Department Stores / Philanthropy | Julius Rosenwald | 2%
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| Electrical Infrastructure | Samuel Insull | 0%
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