All respect to those people, but how can you put Cromwell, Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Parks or Austen over Curie, Mandela, Pol Pot, Castro, Stalin, Copernicus, Galileo or Socrates?
Totally agree. There's more than enough fascinating figures from the world outside Anglo-America such that Cromwell being on the list but Khan being absent seems like a massive oversight.
What about Harriet Tubman, Babe Ruth, Erik the Red, Charles II, Henry VIII, Vlad the Impaler, Genghis Khan, Emmeline Pankhurst, Attila the Hun, um, the list just goes on and on!
It's disappointing that there's there's a lot of spots taken by people who had at best only local influence, mostly of America and England. There are several outstanding mathematicians and scientists that deserve at least an honorable mention, from Einstein and Turing to Al-Khawarizmi and Maxwell.
Never heard of/seen that one, but Jeanne d'Arc is pretty common. Like most things, there's some complexity in deciding what her "real name" was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Joan_of_Arc
There are countless other people he could have included you can’t really compare the importance of every historical figure. However I do agree that you can attribute to them a certain level of significance and that although the people within the same level are probably interchangeable, people of the highest level should be preferred for a quiz like this instead of far less significant figures like Helen Keller, Margaret Thatcher, Abraham Lincoln etc
I'd like to point out that there are a bunch of Napoleons. Only one is the one you're talking about-- Napoleon Bonaparte. Consider changing it (but accept "Napoleon).
Sorry but it feels like western propaganda like not including first man in moon (Yuri Gagarin), one of greatest leader (Chingis Khan), who made ex soviet countries democracy (Mikhail Gorbachew) and many more...
Sorry, but it feels like Russian propaganda if you’re saying that Gagarin was the first man on the moon (or indeed if you think that any Russian or Soviet cosmonauts either orbited or landed on the moon - but to be clear, they haven’t).
I’d fully support the inclusion though, of one particular person born in the Soviet Union: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This has already been addressed in previous comments, but in the time of Alexander, Macedonians were Greeks. That's part of the stink that caused the modern day country to change its name to North Macedonia.
Not true, Macedonians were never greeks. Alexander the Great and his father Phillip were fighting against the Hellens, and his empire was called Macedonian Empire. He was speaking ancient macedonian language. He was Macedonian and never greek. Even the greeks called the macedonians barbarians which was a term for people not belonging to one of the next civilizations: Greek, Roman, Christian.
Macedonia is a prefecture of Greece. People from Northern Macedonia maybe now called "Macedonians" but birthplace of Alexander is in Greece, they praised Greek gods, they spoke Greek, they participated in Olympics. The Slavs that inhabit the country of North Macedonia are totally unrelated to them.
Not even close to accurate. And even if it is do you think it’s proportionate to include more people from the last 200 years of our existence than the rest of written history? I can name at least 200 Greek and Roman writers, philosophers, mathematicians, politicians and military leaders who were way more significant in our evolution than half of the fore mentioned people. Take Lincoln for example; his only significance is to the US since the civil war only affected them and the results of the war weren’t particularly helpful in the progress of the human race as slavery had pretty much already been abolished in Europe (in theory at least).
I think, there are much more people that deserved to be among the 40 people rather than Rosa Parks, Horatio Nelson or Amelia Earrhart. They are so insignificant compared to major world leaders or philosophers. Maybe you just need to make the quiz bigger, but firstly, you need to remove insignificant figures
I look at this as "who impacted society the most" and in ways others might not have done.
Black America has a whole host of "was the first to..." figures. In terms of their actual accomplishments, very few of them were significant (sitting on a bus). Rosa Parks beating out Einstein on this list is just remarkable.
shakespeare more known than washington, da vinci, columbus, churchill, gandhi, newton, muhammad, napoleon, edison, lenin, beethoven, homer, alexander the great, caesar, mao zedong, hannibal, cook
The kingdom he ruled was Macedonia, but ethnically the Macedonian royal family was debatably Greek and Macedonian both. Alexander had both Macedonian blood from his father and Greek blood from his mother, so the answer isn't exactly that straight forward. The correct term here, I suppose, would be Hellenic.
Mao Zedong is undoubtly a great man. Stop insulting him. In an Atheism country, most of people regarded as the Sun. I adviced that you change this item.
He was, until May 1940. The question should be rephrased to "most of WWII" or accept Chamberlain too. UK declared war on the Germans under Chamberlain's administration.
The comments on this particular quiz are particularly entertaining: so much petty whining, taking the title of the quiz just a little too seriously... It's a light-hearted quiz on a fun website, not some definitive list that everyone really should know!
I would say that you’re talented in geography, but not wise enough in history. You should not just think of Great Leap Forward when mentioned Mao Zedong while you highly praising Mrs. Thatcher, Winston Churchill and so on, but also recalled the achievements which is much more than the mistakes he made, including Maoism, being one of the founders of P.R.C, and a great leader of Chinese people and C.P.C. That method of commenting historical figures is Dialectical Materialism.
All respect to those people, but how can you put Cromwell, Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Parks or Austen over Curie, Mandela, Pol Pot, Castro, Stalin, Copernicus, Galileo or Socrates?
Just search for the last and you'll see.
Where's Chopin? Maria Sklodowska-Curie? Sun Tzu? Mussolini? And many others?
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How the heck Thatcher, Earhart and FDR made the list when there was no room for Genghis Khan and Einstein?
But at least Alexander Fleming isn't there because who needs penicillin when you can just listen to Für Elise.
I’d fully support the inclusion though, of one particular person born in the Soviet Union: Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Learn history before talking.
Other people I think should be here: Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Suleiman the Magnificent
very englishcentric quiz
Black America has a whole host of "was the first to..." figures. In terms of their actual accomplishments, very few of them were significant (sitting on a bus). Rosa Parks beating out Einstein on this list is just remarkable.
And I typed 'jean darc', which I think should be accepted, as her name is Jeanne D'arc in French. I based my answer off the French name.