| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | German scientist famous for the theory E=mc² | Albert Einstein | 97%
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| H | He successfully predicted that a comet would return in 1758 (sadly, he did not live to see it) | Edmund Halley | 96%
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| J | Founder of Christianity, crucified by the Romans | Jesus Christ | 96%
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| K | American President assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald | John F. Kennedy | 95%
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| G | Indian pacifist who led India to independence | Mohandas Gandhi | 95%
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| S | British playwright who wrote "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" | William Shakespeare | 92%
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| C | Roman dictator who was stabbed on the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 91%
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| M | Italian artist who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David | Michelangelo | 90%
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| T | Egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter | Tutankhamun | 86%
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| L | Protestant reformer who nailed 95 theses on a church door | Martin Luther | 85%
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| F | American founding father depicted on the $100 bill | Benjamin Franklin | 84%
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| W | Brothers who invented the airplane | The Wright Brothers | 84%
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| D | Author of "Oliver Twist" and "A Tale of Two Cities" | Charles Dickens | 81%
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| I | Spanish Queen of Castille who married the King of Aragon | Isabella I of Castille | 74%
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| A | Greek inventor who cried "Eureka!" | Archimedes | 66%
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| B | A country in South America is named for this revolutionary | Simón Bolívar | 66%
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| N | British admiral who won the Battle of Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 62%
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| R | Dutch Golden Age painter of "The Night Watch" | Rembrandt van Rijn | 59%
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| Y | First democratically-elected President of Russia | Boris Yeltsin | 55%
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| X | Persian emperor who failed to conquer Greece | Xerxes | 54%
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| V | Italian explorer and cartographer, namesake of two continents | Amerigo Vespucci | 50%
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| U | Pope who called for and launched the First Crusade | Urban II | 40%
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| P | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire | Francisco Pizarro | 39%
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| O | Roman poet who wrote "Metamorphoses" | Ovid | 38%
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| Z | Iranian prophet who founded a religion named after him | Zoroaster | 32%
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| Q | Norwegian WWII leader who collaborated with the Nazis | Vidkun Quisling | 21%
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