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Historical figures 1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 346 times
- The average score is 11 of 40
Answer Stats
| Years Active | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1638-1715 | French monarch known as the "Sun King" | Louis XIV | 73%
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| 1891-1944 | German Army Field Marshal from World War Two, nicknamed the "Desert Fox" | Erwin Rommel | 72%
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| 1729-96 | Empress of Russia, 1762-96 | Catherine the Great | 68%
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| 742/48 - 814 | Founder of the Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne | 65%
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| 1913-80 | Four time gold medallist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Jesse Owens | 55%
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| 1480-1521 | Portuguese explorer who organised the exploration that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the world | Ferdinand Magellan | 51%
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| 1898-1978 | Female Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74 | Golda Meir | 51%
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| 1724-1804 | German philosopher who published Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 | Immanuel Kant | 39%
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| 1515-57 | Fourth wife of Henry VIII | Anne of Cleves | 37%
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| 1556-1623 | Wife of William Shakespeare | Anne Hathaway | 36%
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| 1912-78 | Pope whose tenure lasted just 33 days | John Paul I | 36%
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| 1900-2002 | Long-lived wife of King George VI of Great Britain | Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother | 36%
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| 1927-2014 | Nobel Prize-winning Columbian author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love In The Time Of Cholera" | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 35%
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| 1855-80 | Australian outlaw captured after a shootout with police | Ned Kelly | 35%
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| 1883-1967 | British Labour Prime Minister, 1945-51 | Clement Attlee | 32%
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| 1737-93 | First Governor of Massachusetts and prominent signatory of the Declaration of Independence | John Hancock | 31%
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| 1790-1862 | 10th President of the United States, 1841-45 | John Tyler | 31%
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| 1807-82 | General and politician who was a central figure in the unification of Italy | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 30%
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| 1960-94 | Brazilian three-time Championship winning Formula One racing driver | Ayrton Senna | 29%
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| 1102-67 | Empress of England in a disputed claim over the throne | Matilda | 28%
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| 1485-1540 | English Secretary of State during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, main subject of a series of books by Hilary Mantel | Thomas Cromwell | 27%
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| 1850-1916 | Senior British Army General who died half way through World War One; appeared on a famous recruitment poster | Horatio Herbert Kitchener | 25%
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| 1571-1630 | German mathematician and astronomer who devised the laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler | 23%
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| 1843-1907 | Norwegian composer of Piano Concerto in A Minor | Edvard Grieg | 21%
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| 1890-1922 | Irish revolutionary leader shot and killed during the Irish Civil War | Michael Collins | 21%
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| 1858-1928 | Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union | Emmeline Pankhurst | 20%
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| 1508-1458BC | Longest reigning female pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty | Hatshepsut | 20%
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| 1889-1978 | First President of Kenya, 1964-78 | Jomo Kenyatta | 20%
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| 1812-70 | Famous author, middle name Huffam, whose lesser known works include The Chimes, Our Mutual Friend and The Battle of Life | Charles Dickens | 17%
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| 1908-75 | First actor to portray Doctor Who on television | William Hartnell | 17%
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| 1906-67 | Last Emperor of China, expelled from the Forbidden City in 1917 | Aisin-Gioro Puyi | 15%
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| 1806-61 | She wrote "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" in Sonnets From the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 15%
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| 1415-92 | Introduced the printing press into England in 1476 | William Caxton | 9%
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| 1901-54 | Co-designer of the first Nuclear reactor with Leo Szilard | Enrico Fermi | 8%
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| 1815-91 | First Prime Minister of Canada, 1878-91 | John A. McDonald | 8%
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| 1932-2008 | Grammy award winning singer and Civil Rights activist, nicknamed "Mama Africa" | Miriam Makeba | 5%
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| 1505-85 | 16th Century English composer who specialised in Church music | Thomas Tallis | 4%
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| 1506-34 | Catholic Nun who made prophecies against Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Nicknamed the "Maid of Kent" | Elizabeth Barton | 2%
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| 1554-1618 | Captained the first voyage of the East India Company in 1601 | James Lancaster | 1%
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| 1726-95 | American colonel who ordered his soldiers to not fire "until you've seen the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill | William Prescott | 1%
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