| Dates | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1728-1779 | 'Discovered' Australia | James Cook | 88%
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| 1755-1793 | Empress who allegedly said, "Let them eat cake" | Marie Antoinette | 88%
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| 1729-1796 | Russian empress | Catherine II | 86%
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| 1706-1790 | Lightning rod inventor and US Founding Father | Benjamin Franklin | 82%
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| 1756-1791 | "Magic Flute" composer | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 81%
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| 1758-1794 | Prince of Terror during the French Revolution | Maximilien Robespierre | 70%
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| 1723-1790 | "The Wealth of Nations" author | Adam Smith | 68%
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| 1701-1744 | His temperature scale is widely used | Anders Celsius | 65%
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| 1759-1796 | Scotland's national poet | Robert Burns | 63%
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| 1712-1786 | Prussian king who won the Seven Years' War | Frederick the Great | 58%
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| 1725-1798 | Womanizing author of "Story of my Life" | Giacomo Casanova | 32%
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| 1712-1778 | Philosopher who believed in the "General will" | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 32%
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| 1743-1794 | "Father of Modern Chemistry" | Antoine Lavoisier | 23%
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| 1711-1776 | "A Treatise of Human Nature" author | David Hume | 16%
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| 1727-1788 | "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews" painter | Thomas Gainsborough | 14%
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| 1729-1781 | "Nathan the Wise" author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 12%
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