Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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C | Notorious American gangster during the prohibition era | Al Capone | 86%
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G | The last leader of the Soviet Union before its dissolution | Mikhail Gorbachev | 80%
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S | Greek philosopher and teacher of Plato who prized virtue | Socrates | 78%
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E | Columbian drug lord, head of the Medellin Cartel | Pablo Escobar | 76%
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J | Retired American basketball player who played for the Chicago Bulls | Michael Jordan | 75%
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T | Serbian scientist/electrician who worked for and later competed against Thomas Edison | Nikola Tesla | 75%
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V | Aggresive Romanian leader who inspired Stoker's 'Dracula' | Vlad the Impaler | 74%
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Y | English philanthropist and namesake of a renowned American university | Elihu Yale | 73%
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W | 28th President of the USA | Woodrow Wilson | 66%
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D | English Explorer who defeated the Spanish Armada | Sir Francis Drake | 57%
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Z | French footballer known for headbutting | Zinédine Zidane | 54%
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R | Original Superman actor paralysed in a horse riding accident | Christopher Reeve | 51%
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H | Theoretical physicist known for his predictions concerning black holes | Stephen Hawking | 51%
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B | The 'Godfather of Soul' | James Brown | 43%
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N | Russian author of 'Lolita' | Vladimir Nabokov | 43%
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M | English poet who wrote 'Paradise Lost' | John Milton | 36%
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P | English surgeon who first described the symptoms of a disease later named after him | James Parkinson | 31%
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U | Drummer for Metallica | Lars Ulrich | 24%
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A | King of Spain, 1874-85 | Alfonso XII | 19%
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K | Pharoh who commissioned, and is buried in, the Great Pyramid of Giza | Khufu | 19%
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L | Wife of Napoleon and Empress of France between 1810-1814 | Marie Louise | 19%
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O | Abstract artist whose paintings look suspiciously like vaginas | Georgia O'Keeffe | 17%
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F | Inventor of the electronic television | Philo Farnsworth | 4%
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I | One of the ten Attic orators and rhetoric opponent of Plato | Isocrates | 3%
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X | Chinese human rights activist and political prisoner | Liu Xiaobo | 2%
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Q | Muslim Brotherhood philosopher often viewed as inspiration for al-Qaeda | Sayyid Qutb | 2%
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