Dates | Clue | Initials | Person | % Correct |
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18th July 1918 – 5th December 2013 | President of South Africa from 10th May 1994 to 16th June 1999 | NRM | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | 94%
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428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC | Taught Aristotle and founded the Academy | P | Plato | 94%
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24th May 1819 – 22nd January 1901 | The second-longest reign of any British monarch | AV | Alexandrina Victoria | 91%
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19th May 1890 – 2nd September 1969 | The city known as Saigon was renamed in his honour | HCM | Hồ Chí Minh | 78%
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17th January 1706 – 17th April 1790 | Proposed (and may have conducted) an experiment involving a kite and electricity | BF | Benjamin Franklin | 77%
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13th August 1926 – 25th November 2016 | Prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 | FACR | Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz | 75%
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20th July 1919 – 11th January 2008 | One of two climbers to have reached the peak of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953 | EPH | Sir Edmund Percival Hillary | 73%
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c. 518 – August 465 BC | Won the Battle of Thermopylae | X | Xerxes the Great | 72%
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26th July 1875 – 6th June 1961 | Collaborated with Sigmund Freud | CGJ | Carl Gustav Jung | 63%
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c. 1303 BC – July/August 1213 BC | Led the Egyptian forces at the Battle of Kadesh | R | Ramesses the Great | 62%
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Born 595 BC | King of Lydia, a kingdom known for its wealth | C | Croesus | 26%
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Before 1390 – 9th July 1441 | Northern Renaissance artist who painted The Arnolfini Portrait | JVE | Jan van Eyck | 21%
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551–479 BC | Taught a variant of the Golden Rule, sometimes called the "Silver Rule": "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others" | KQ | Kong Qui (Confucius) | 9%
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Died 985/86 | Introduced Christianity to Denmark | HG | Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson | 4%
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1418–1471/1472 | Transformed the Kingdom of Cusco into the Inca Empire | PIY | Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui | 2%
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