| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| E=mc squared | Albert Einstein | 96%
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| 1st president | George Washington | 96%
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| Gravity, falling apples | Isaac Newton | 96%
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| Third Reich | Adolf Hitler | 95%
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| I have a dream | Martin Luther King Jr | 92%
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| Genoan sailor | Christopher Columbus | 90%
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| Waterloo | Napoleon Bonaparte | 89%
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| All the world's a stage, to be or not to be | William Shakespeare | 89%
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| Ode to Joy, 9th symphony, classical composer | Ludwig van Beethoven | 88%
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| Beagle, Galapagos | Charles Darwin | 87%
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| Sistine chapel | Michelangelo | 85%
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| The Magic Flute, Requiem | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 83%
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| Model T, assembly line production | Henry Ford | 82%
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| Socialism in one country, cult of personality, the Great Purges | Joseph Stalin | 82%
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| 95 theses | Martin Luther | 82%
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| Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 80%
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| Died of leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation. | Marie Sklodowska Curie | 79%
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| All power to the Soviets, NEP | Vladimir Lenin | 79%
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| Virgin queen | Elizabeth I | 78%
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| Workers of the world unite. | Karl Marx | 78%
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| ADHD renaissance man | Leonardo da Vinci | 78%
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| ANC, apartheid | Nelson Mandela | 78%
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| Emancipation | Abraham Lincoln | 77%
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| Rock and roll in blue suede shoes | Elvis Presley | 77%
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| Longest president | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 77%
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| Printing press | Johann Gutenberg | 76%
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| Heliocentric scientist under house arrest | Galileo Galilei | 75%
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| Id, ego and superego | Sigmund Freud | 75%
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| Brothers in the air | Wright Brothers | 75%
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| Father of the Atomic Bomb | Robert Oppenheimer | 74%
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| German composer | Johann Sebastian Bach | 73%
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| Venetian traveller | Marco Polo | 73%
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| Hollywood, Governor, President | Ronald Reagan | 72%
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| Fermentation and pasturization | Louis Pasteur | 71%
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| Blue period, cubism | Pablo Picasso | 71%
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| Celebrity activist, people's princess, | Princess Diana | 71%
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| Postmaster flying a kite in a lightning storm with bifocals | Benjamin Franklin | 70%
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| Tesla assisted inventor | Thomas Edison | 69%
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| First lady, activist, delegate to the UN | Eleanor Roosevelt | 67%
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| Liberator of South America | Simon Bolivar | 67%
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| Windows | Bill Gates | 66%
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| Salt march | Mahatma Gandhi | 66%
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| E.T., Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 66%
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| Largest land empire | Genghis Khan | 64%
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| We shall never surrender | Winston Churchill | 64%
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| Glasnost and perestroika | Mikhail Gorbachev | 61%
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| French saint | Joan of Arc | 60%
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| Heliocentric revolution | Nicholas Copernicus | 60%
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| Frozen animator | Walt Disney | 60%
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| Journey through hell | Dante | 58%
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| I think therefore I am, French philosopher | Rene Descartes | 57%
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| Went around the world | Ferdinand Magellan | 56%
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| Battle of Hastings | William the Conqueror | 55%
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| On the Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 54%
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| Cured syphilis, penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 49%
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| The Long March | Mao Zedong | 49%
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| Crimean War nurse | Florence Nightingale | 48%
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| Portuguese explorer, Cape of Good Hope | Vasco da Gama | 48%
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| Candide | Voltaire | 48%
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| Jazz, Satchmo | Louis Armstrong | 46%
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| Mr. Watson, come here, I want you | Alexander Graham Bell | 42%
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| Started the British invasion of Ameirca (group name) | the Beatles | 42%
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| DNA but not Rosalind Franklin, just the two guys | James Watson and Francis Crick | 41%
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| the Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 40%
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| A priest who grew peas | Gregor Mendel | 38%
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| Moses of her people | Harriet Tubman | 38%
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| Steam Engine | James Watt | 38%
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| The Little Tramp | Charlie Chaplin | 37%
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| Westernized Russia, worked in Dutch shipyard | Peter the Great | 36%
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| A day in Dublin, stream of consciousness | James Joyce | 34%
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| Suffragete, dollar coin | Susan B Anthony | 34%
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| Philosopher of Konigsberg | Immanuel Kant | 30%
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| Polio vaccine | Jonas Salk | 29%
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| Responsible for the Inquistion, Coloumbus and Reconquista | Isabella of Castile | 28%
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| Uncertainity Principle | Werner Heisenberg | 27%
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| Wireless telegraph, short wave | Giovanni Marconi | 26%
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| Smallpox vaccine | Edward Jenner | 23%
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| Atomic theory, quantum mechanics | Niels Bohr | 22%
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| Ottoman Sultan | Suleiman | 21%
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| 19th century novelist idolized by university coeds | Jane Austen | 20%
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| A blank slate | John Locke | 18%
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| Summa Theologica | Thomas Aquinas | 18%
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| Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 17%
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| Planned Parenthood | Margaret Sanger | 16%
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| Nuclear chain reaction in a squash court | Enrico Fermi | 15%
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| Scientific method | Francis Bacon | 14%
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| Electro-magnetic force | Michael Faraday | 14%
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| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 14%
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| The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | Thomas Hobbes | 14%
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| Brought AIDS to North America (not a real name) | Patient Zero | 13%
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| Pioneer in computing | Charles Babbage | 10%
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| The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 10%
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| Abolitionist and suffragette | Elizabeth Stanton | 9%
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| Vindication on the Rights of Women | Mary Wollstonecraft | 9%
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| 19th/20th century Italian opera singer | Enrico Caruso | 7%
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| Pope - enforced celibacy, fought the emperor, investiture controversy | Gregory VII | 7%
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| French photographer | Louis Daguerre | 7%
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| Circulation of blood | William Harvey | 5%
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| The "Pill" | Gregory Pincus | 1%
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| TV/RCA | Vladimir Zworykin | 1%
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