Stats: Top 100 People of the 19th Century

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Civil War president, Emancipation Proclamation,	Abraham Lincoln	97%
Short French military and political leader; spread the French Revolution and his legal code throughout Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	97%
Queen of Great Britain, Empress of India, her name is the era	Queen Victoria	95%
The Communist Manifesto, Das Capital	Karl Marx	90%
Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times	Charles Dickens	87%
"El Libertador", led South American colonies to their independence, his name is a country	Simon Bolivar	87%
On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man	Charles Darwin	83%
Filed over 1,000 patents including the phonograph and light bulb (or did Tesla)	Thomas Edison	83%
The first telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	80%
Polish scientist killed by her own discoveries, won two separate Nobels	Marie Curie	78%
War and Peace, Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	77%
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens	Mark Twain	77%
Dutch painter, the Potato Eaters, Starry Night (one eared)	Vincent Van Gogh	77%
Crimean war nurse, improved hospital practises	Florence Nightingale	76%
German composer and pianist, did his best work after he went deaf.	Ludwig von Beethoven	76%
Fermentation and Pasteurization	Louis Pasteur	73%
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	71%
Third President of the US, Louisiana Purchase	Thomas Jefferson	71%
Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventer of dynamite. Now known for his prizes	Alfred Nobel	70%
One of three sister novelists, Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	70%
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen	70%
French writer, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	68%
First and only British-Jewish PM, modernized and led the Conservative Party	Benjamin Disraeli	64%
American writer, short stories and poetry, modernized horror and gothic story writing, The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	64%
Inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind which carries his name	Louis Braille	63%
Serbian American inventor and engineer who apparently doesn't get enough respect, fought numerous patent battles, developed the AC electrical current	Nikola Tesla	63%
Water Lilies, Impressionism	Claude Monet	62%
US businessman controlled oil and railroads	John D Rockefeller	62%
Danish writer famous for his fairy tales, the Little Mermaid	Hans Christian Andersen	61%
Explorer, "discovered" source of the Nile, met Stanley	David Livingstone	60%
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	60%
Invented the telegraph and the code it used	Samuel Morse	60%
Conservative Prussian statesmen, unified Germany, Chancellor of the German Empire	Otto von Bismarck	56%
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	54%
Russian scientist, classic conditioning theory, salivating dogs	Ivan Pavlov	54%
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, 1812 Overture	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	54%
7th US President, Trail of Tears and Indian Removal,	Andrew Jackson	53%
Austrian monk and geneticist ignored in his own lifetime	Gregor Mendel	53%
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	52%
Norwegian painter, "the Scream"	Edvard Munch	51%
German composer and opera writer, friend of Nietzsche, The Ring, Bayreuth, Tristan and Isolde	Richard Wagner	50%
Father of modern computers (rhymes with cabbage)	Charles Babbage	49%
Polish pianist and composer, lived in Paris	Frederic Chopin	47%
Blue jeans	Levi Strauss	47%
Leader of the Lakota (Sioux), Battle of Little Bighorn	Sitting Bull	47%
Two explorers sent by the above from St Louis to the Pacific, guided by a Fr. Canadian fur trapper and his ShoShone wife	Meriwether Lewis and William Clark	45%
British military leader in the Peninsular War, Battle of Waterloo, later a prominent Victorian politician	Arthur Wesley, Duke of Wellington	44%
Norwegian playwright, The Doll House	Henrik Ibsen	44%
German writer and thinker, Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	44%
The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spake Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	42%
King of the Zulu Kingdom 1816-1828	Shaka	42%
Expanded US steel industry, the "Gospel of Wealth"	Andrew Carnegie	41%
American poet, follower of the above, "Leaves of Grass"	Walt Whitman	40%
President of the Confederate States of America	Jefferson Davis	39%
US suffargette and advocate for equal rights, dollar coin	Susan B Anthony	38%
African American composer and pianist, ragtime, "Maple Leaf Rag", (not Janis)	Scott Joplin	37%
South African politician, mining magnate, helped started the Boer War, founded modern Zimbabwe, and a scholarship fund in his name	Cecil Rhodes	34%
American abolitionist, Harper's Ferry, hung for treason	John Brown	34%
Small pox vaccine	Edward Jenner	33%
French novelist, Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	33%
Former African American slave, abolitionist, public speaker, advised Lincoln, posted to Haiti as a diplomat	Frederick Douglass	32%
Electro-magnetic induction, electrolysis	Michael Faraday	32%
British poet, "Charge of the Light Brigade", "Ulysses"	Lord Alfred Tennyson	31%
British Prime Minster, Liberal party founder and rival of the above	William Gladstone	31%
Russian chemist, formulated the Periodic Law and helped develop the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	30%
Ruled Austria-Hungary for over 50 years resisting any attempt to modernize it	Emperor Franz Joseph I	29%
African American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy	Harriet Tubman	29%
American banker, created General Electric and US Steel	JP Morgan	28%
Russian Tsar, emancipated the serfs	Tsar Alexander II	24%
Utilitarian philosopher	John Stuart Mill	23%
American poet, Transcendentalism,	Ralph Waldo Emerson	23%
The first existentialist, Danish philosopher, social critic and theologian	Soren Kierkegaard	22%
Nurse, founded the American Red Cross	Clara Barton	21%
Central figure in German philosophy, German idealism and historism, was turned upside down by Marx	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	21%
First PM of Canada, (spelled differently than the restaurant)	John A MacDonald	20%
Invented early forms of photography and processing	Louis Daguerre	20%
UK MP, campaigned against slavery, helped abolish the slave trade	William Wilberforce	19%
American transcendentalist, thinker, poet, etc, Walden, Civil Disobedience	Henry David Thoreau	16%
Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire	Klemens von Metternich	15%
Non-violent leader of the British suffragette movement (not Farah)	Millicent Fawcett	14%
Founder of modern political Zionism, prompted Jewish migration to Palestine	Theodor Herzl	13%
Mechanical Engineer, improved the steam engine, built railroads (not Brunei)	George Stephenson	12%
Electromagnetism, physics	James Maxwell	12%
Russian revolutionary anarchist, founded social or collective anarchism	Mikhail Bakunin	12%
Founded the Salvation Army	William Booth	12%
The ultimate diplomat and politician. He served King Louis XVI, the French Republic, Napoleon, King Louis XVIII, Louis-Philippe	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand	10%
Italian writer and political activist, "soul of Italy", promoted a unified Italy	Giuseppe Mazzini	9%
"Go west young man", journalist, politician, founded the New York Tribune	Horace Greeley	8%
President of Mexico from 1861 to 1872, resisted French occupation, overthrew the Second Mexican Empire, prompted liberal reforms and modernized the country	Benito Juarez	6%
Irish politician and UK MP, the Great Emancipator, fought for Catholic rights, sought to repeal the Act of Union	Daniel O'Connell	6%
Hungarian revolutionary, served as regent-president during the 1848 revolution	Louis Kossuth	6%
Advocate for Irish Home Rule, MP for Ireland and an Anglo-Irish landlord	Charles Stewart Parnell	5%
First women editor of the New York Tribune (not a brush company)	Margaret Fuller	5%
"Property is Theft", French anarchist	Pierre Joseph Proudhon	5%
Published "The Liberator" advocating an end to slavery and later full female suffrage	William Lloyd Garrison	5%
French politician, conservative republican, served as president and prime minister at different times, put down the Paris Commune	Adolphe Thiers	2%
German mathematician, logician and philosopher	Gottlob Frege	2%
Founded the Bahai faith	Bahaullah	1%
Italian general and politician who helped unify Italy	Giuseppe Garlbaldi	1%
German engineer, developed the internal combustion engine for automobiles, company is named after him (owed Chrysler for a period of time)	Gottlieb Daimler	1%

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