Stats: Top 100 People of the 20th Century

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Third Reich	Adolf Hitler	95%
US civil rights, non-violence	Martin Luther King	92%
"We will never surrender" British PM	Winston Churchill	91%
Iron Lady, Milk Snatcher, Falkland Islands	Margaret Thatcher	88%
Robben Island, ANC, President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	88%
Founded USSR and NEP	Vladimir Lenin	84%
Roughriders, bears, US national parks	Theodore Roosevelt	83%
Wrote a diary in an Amsterdam attic, died in the Holocaust	Anne Frank	82%
First lady, UN delegate	Eleanor Roosevelt	82%
New Deal, husband of the above	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	82%
E=mc2	Albert Einstein	81%
French fashion designer, No. 5	Coco Chanel	79%
ET, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	79%
Non-violence, salt march	Gandhi	78%
People's Princess, celebrity activist, brakes failed	Princess Diana	78%
Hollywood, Governor, President	Ronald Reagan	78%
Silent film star, Little Tramp	Charlie Chaplin	76%
Long March, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution	Mao Zedong	75%
"Fly me to the moon" "Angel Eyes" "One for my Baby" --- blue eyes	Frank Sinatra	74%
Polish pope, Karol Józef Wojtyła	Pope John Paul II	74%
Norma Jeane, actress/pinup, Some Like it Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, the Kennedys, Candle in a Wind	Marilyn Monroe	73%
Windows, computer software	Bill Gates	72%
American jazz musician, Satchmo	Louis Armstrong	72%
Leader of North Vietnam and is now Saigon	Ho Chi Minh	71%
Last General Secretary of USSR	Mikhail Gorbachev	71%
Model T, five dollar day, anti semetic, operated factories in Germany with French slave labor.	Henry Ford	67%
Talk show host, free cars, book club, and Dr. Phil. Now has her own network.	Oprah Winfrey	67%
Sat in the front of the bus, refused to move to the back, Montgomery Alabama	Rosa Parks	65%
Id, ego and superego	Sigmund Freud	65%
Camelot, assassination prone, Catholic, bootlegger dad, president son, name the family	the Kennedy family	64%
Flying brothers from a Dayton, Ohio bicycle shop	Orville and Wilbur Wright	63%
British group who invaded the US, name the group	the Beatles	63%
American soul musician demands respect	Aretha Franklin	62%
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" "The Greatest", Caissus Clay	Muhammad Ali	62%
Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Wild One, Last Tango in Paris, On the Waterfront	Marlon Brando	61%
the blue period, Guernica	Pablo Picasso	58%
Argentine revolutionary, Cuban hero, granddaughter holds the marketing rights to his image outside Cuba, every wannabe revoltionary has a poster, three letters	Che Guevara	57%
Albanian Catholic nun in Calcutta	Mother Teresa	56%
Frozen animator	Walt Disney	56%
Chinese-American maritial arts and action movie star	Bruce Lee	55%
Irish novelist, the Ulysses	James Joyce	55%
Invented WWW and HTTP	Tim Berners Lee	52%
Created penicillin, cured syphilis and TB	Alexander Fleming	49%
blind and deaf, social activist	Helen Keller	49%
The Muppets, Fraggle Rocket	Jim Henson	45%
American 1950's actress and comedienne, was "love"d by all	Lucille Ball	45%
Gay rights, San Fransciso mayor, assassinated, twinkie defence	Harvey Milk	41%
Worked on Enigma, formed an AI test, father of modern computing, charged with homosexuality and lost UK security clearance, chemical castration, sucide	Alan Turing	40%
Abbrevaition for an American soldier, not a real person	American GI	40%
Islamic Revolution in Iran	Khomeini	40%
Animated character, longest running tv show, writes on the chalkboard	Bart Simpson	38%
Flew across the Atlantic, son was kidnapped, an American fascist	Charles Lindbergh	38%
Duo, first to climb Mt. Everest, one gets more credit than the other	Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary	38%
Found an expanding universe, telescope is named after him	Edwin Hubble	36%
Newport folk festival goes electric	Bob Dylan	35%
First Israeli PM	David Ben Gurion	35%
Virologist, polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	33%
Played baseball for Montreal Royals and the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the color barrier	Jackie Robinson	32%
Duo, molecular biologists, double helix DNA, Nobel Prize, "forgot" to mention Rosalind Franklin's contribution.	James Watson and Francis Crick	31%
South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I (duo)	Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein	25%
English suffragist, advocated direct action smashing windows, arson, and hunger strikes. Later became a supporter of the Conservative and militant anti-communist.	Emmeline Pankhurst	23%
American evangelist, pastor to the presidents	Billy Graham	22%
American modern dancer and choreographer	Martha Graham	22%
Founded McDonald's	Ray Kroc	22%
Founded world's largest retailler on low prices and Chinese labor	Sam Walton	22%
Chinese protestor, Tiananmen Square, not a real name	Unknown Rebel	22%
British economist, The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money. Friedman was not a fan.	John Maynard Keynes	21%
Founded an American cosmetics firm using her name.	Estee Lauder	20%
The Rite of Spring by a Russian, classical composer	Igor Stravinsky	20%
Birth control, Planned Parenthood	Margarent Sanger	20%
President of IBM from 1952 to 1971, considered the greatest capitalist in history	Thomas Watson	18%
English-American poet, the Wasteland	T.S. Eliot	18%
__________, Lynch and Company	Charles Merrill	17%
Modern French-Swiss architet, born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, blamed for high rise public housing projects	Le Corbusier	16%
"Silent Spring", founded the modern environmental movement, no more DDT	Rachel Carson	15%
Swiss child developmental psychologist, stages of intellectual growth	Jean Piaget	12%
Atomic pile in a Chicago squash court	Enrico Fermi	10%
Austrian philosopher, Tractatus-Logico, Philosophical Investigations,	Ludwig Wittgenstein	8%
Co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous	Bill Wilson	7%
NFL commisioner, 1960 - 89	Pete Rozelle	7%
Created suburbia in post war America.	William Levitt	7%
Austrian mathematician, incompleteness theorems	Kurt Godel	6%
Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, human rights advocate. Nobel peace prize 1975	Andrei Sakharov	5%
American rocket scientist, patented liquid fueled and multi staged rockets, died in 1945	Robert H. Goddard	4%
Invented air conditioning. Name the firm for the last name.	Willis Carrier	4%
British family living in East Africa, athropologists and archeologists	The Leakey family	3%
Co-invented the solid state transistor, Nobel prize in physics, helped start silicon valley	William Shockley	3%
Co-founded Sony Inc.	Akio Morita	2%
Helped found Bank of America, helped rebuild San Francisco in 1906, loaned money to Disney and Hewlett Packard to get them started. Founded Transamerica.	A.P. Giannini	2%
Belgian-American chemist who invented modern plastics, Bakelite	Leo Baekeland	2%
Ad executive who gave us the jolly green giant, tony the tiger and the marlboro man	Leo Burnett	2%
American sometimes credited with inventing television instead of Zworykin.	Philo Farnsworth	2%
UAW organizer and leader	Walter Reuther	2%
Was in charge of RCA and NBC creating network radio and TV.	David Sarnoff	1%
Founder of Pan Am, brought air travel to the masses	Juan Trippe	1%
Owns politically connected construction firm with Iraq and Katrina contracts. Name the firm for the last name.	Stephen Bechtel	0%

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