Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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A | First man on the moon | Neil Armstrong | 99%
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C | Egyptian queen whose love life was dramatised by Shakespeare | Cleopatra | 97%
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B | German composer of the Baroque period | Johann Sebastian Bach | 84%
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E | Architect of a well-known Parisian landmark | Gustave Eiffel | 83%
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H | Leader of Carthage who attacked Rome with elephants | Hannibal | 83%
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P | Influential proponent of the civil rights movement who refused to give up her seat | Rosa Parks | 83%
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Z | Co-founder and current CEO of Facebook | Mark Zuckerberg | 82%
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J | Eccentric lead singer of The Rolling Stones | Mick Jagger | 77%
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F | 20th century writer and author of The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 73%
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G | First person to orbit the earth | Yuri Gagarin | 72%
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K | First deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor's degree of arts | Helen Keller | 66%
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U | The third Supreme Leader of North Korea | Kim Jong-un | 65%
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N | French seer who seemingly prophesised 9/11 | Nostradamus | 57%
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L | British diplomat known for his part in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire | T. E. Lawrence | 50%
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V | Italian physicist who invented the electric battery | Alessandro Volta | 49%
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R | Objectivist author who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 37%
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S | Ascetic who founded Buddhism, more commonly known as 'Buddha' | Gautama Siddhārtha | 31%
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D | French impressionist composer | Claude Debussy | 30%
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X | Considered the sucessor to Mao as chairman of China, 1981-1987 | Deng Xiaoping | 20%
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M | Anthropologist who wrote Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies | Margaret Mead | 13%
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I | Early Christian bishop who first coined the phrase 'Catholic Church' | Ignatius of Antioch | 11%
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W | British scientist credited for the development of radar prior to WWII | Robert Watson-Watt | 9%
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Q | Producer of Tom and Jerry | Fred Quimby | 8%
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O | Kurdish national leader and co-founder of the PKK | Abdullah Öcalan | 6%
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Y | Founder of Nintendo | Fusajiro Yamauchi | 2%
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T | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1951 for his vaccine against yellow fever | Max Theiler | 2%
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