| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Soviet leader during World War II | Joseph Stalin | 99%
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| Fascist Italian leader known as "Il Duce" | Benito Mussolini | 94%
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| Conqueror who founded the Mongol Empire | Genghis Khan | 94%
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| First black president of South Africa | Nelson Mandela | 94%
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| Developed the theory of relativity | Albert Einstein | 88%
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| Painter of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 88%
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| Italian who discovered the moons of Jupiter and was silenced by the church | Galileo Galilei | 86%
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| Disciple of Socrates who wrote "The Republic" | Plato | 86%
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| Albanian nun known for her charitable work in Calcutta | Mother Teresa | 85%
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| Cuba's "Maximo Líder" | Fidel Castro | 84%
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| Discovered polonium and received two Nobel Prizes | Marie Curie | 82%
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| Founder of psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 81%
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| Empress whose reign is called the Golden Age of Russia | Catherine the Great | 79%
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| Introduced Glasnost and Perestroika to the USSR, before it collapsed | Mikhail Gorbachev | 78%
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| First Roman emperor | Augustus | 76%
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| General who led the French Resistance and later served as President | Charles de Gaulle | 74%
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| Cubist painter of "Guernica" | Pablo Picasso | 74%
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| North Vietnamese leader until 1969 | Ho Chi-Minh | 73%
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| Westernized Russia and founded St. Petersburg | Peter the Great | 73%
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| Author of the "Divine Comedy" | Dante Alighieri | 71%
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| Austrian Wunderkind who composed "The Magic Flute" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 71%
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| "Iron chancellor" who united Germany | Otto von Bismarck | 70%
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| Initiated the first circumnavigation of the globe | Ferdinand Magellan | 67%
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| Proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, triggering a Scientific Revolution | Nicolaus Copernicus | 64%
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| United Spain with Ferdinand II and completed the Reconquista | Isabella of Castile | 61%
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| Soviet leader during the Cuba Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev | 61%
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| Apostle who is attributed to having written around half of the New Testament | Saint Paul | 60%
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| Greek scientist who went bathing and exclaimed, "Eureka!" | Archimedes | 59%
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| "Prince of Terror" during the French Revolution | Maximilien Robespierre | 57%
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| Chilean dictator 1973-1991 | Augusto Pinochet | 56%
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| Author of "Don Quijote" | Miguel de Cervantes | 55%
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| Wrote "Crime and Punishment" | Fyodor Dostoyevski | 53%
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| Babylonian king whose code of laws introduced an "eye for eye" policy | Hammurabi | 49%
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| Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Ruhollah Khomeini | 48%
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| Designed the first practical automobile | Carl Benz | 45%
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| Königsberg philosopher and authority on ethical dilemmas | Immanuel Kant | 45%
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| Solidarity leader and first Polish president after the fall of Communism | Lech Wałęsa | 36%
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| Introduced free market economy to China | Deng Xiaoping | 34%
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| French feminist who said, "One is not born but becomes a woman." | Simone de Beauvoir | 33%
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| Conquered and united China by 221 BC | Qin Shi Huang | 32%
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