Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
40 non-US, non-UK Historical People Everyone Should Know - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 1,599 times
- The average score is 27 of 40
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Soviet leader during World War II | Joseph Stalin | 99%
|
| Fascist Italian leader known as "Il Duce" | Benito Mussolini | 94%
|
| Conqueror who founded the Mongol Empire | Genghis Khan | 94%
|
| First black president of South Africa | Nelson Mandela | 94%
|
| Developed the theory of relativity | Albert Einstein | 88%
|
| Painter of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 88%
|
| Italian who discovered the moons of Jupiter and was silenced by the church | Galileo Galilei | 86%
|
| Disciple of Socrates who wrote "The Republic" | Plato | 86%
|
| Albanian nun known for her charitable work in Calcutta | Mother Teresa | 85%
|
| Cuba's "Maximo Líder" | Fidel Castro | 84%
|
| Discovered polonium and received two Nobel Prizes | Marie Curie | 82%
|
| Founder of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 81%
|
| Empress whose reign is called the Golden Age of Russia | Catherine the Great | 79%
|
| Introduced Glasnost and Perestroika to the USSR, before it collapsed | Mikhail Gorbachev | 78%
|
| First Roman emperor | Augustus | 76%
|
| General who led the French Resistance and later served as President | Charles de Gaulle | 74%
|
| Cubist painter of "Guernica" | Pablo Picasso | 74%
|
| North Vietnamese leader until 1969 | Ho Chi-Minh | 73%
|
| Westernized Russia and founded St. Petersburg | Peter the Great | 73%
|
| Author of the "Divine Comedy" | Dante Alighieri | 71%
|
| Austrian Wunderkind who composed "The Magic Flute" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 71%
|
| "Iron chancellor" who united Germany | Otto von Bismarck | 70%
|
| Initiated the first circumnavigation of the globe | Ferdinand Magellan | 67%
|
| Proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, triggering a Scientific Revolution | Nicolaus Copernicus | 64%
|
| United Spain with Ferdinand II and completed the Reconquista | Isabella of Castile | 61%
|
| Soviet leader during the Cuba Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev | 61%
|
| Apostle who is attributed to having written around half of the New Testament | Saint Paul | 60%
|
| Greek scientist who went bathing and exclaimed, "Eureka!" | Archimedes | 59%
|
| "Prince of Terror" during the French Revolution | Maximilien Robespierre | 57%
|
| Chilean dictator 1973-1991 | Augusto Pinochet | 56%
|
| Author of "Don Quijote" | Miguel de Cervantes | 55%
|
| Wrote "Crime and Punishment" | Fyodor Dostoyevski | 53%
|
| Babylonian king whose code of laws introduced an "eye for eye" policy | Hammurabi | 49%
|
| Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Ruhollah Khomeini | 48%
|
| Designed the first practical automobile | Carl Benz | 45%
|
| Königsberg philosopher and authority on ethical dilemmas | Immanuel Kant | 45%
|
| Solidarity leader and first Polish president after the fall of Communism | Lech Wałęsa | 36%
|
| Introduced free market economy to China | Deng Xiaoping | 34%
|
| French feminist who said, "One is not born but becomes a woman." | Simone de Beauvoir | 33%
|
| Conquered and united China by 221 BC | Qin Shi Huang | 32%
|
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz
New and Popular