Statistics for "Our Best": the 200 "Greatest Germans"

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Rank	Hint	Answer	% Correct
2	Theologian	Martin Luther	95%
12	Composer	Ludwig van Beethoven	85%
10	Theoretical physicist	Albert Einstein	82%
8	Printing press pioneer	Johannes Gutenberg	82%
6	Composer	Johann Sebastian Bach	82%
9	Chancellor and general	Otto von Bismarck	82%
7	Poet	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	77%
3	Economist	Karl Marx	72%
1	Chancellor	Konrad Adenauer	69%
102	Economist	Erich Gutenberg	67%
130	Emperor	Wilhelm II	64%
13	Chancellor	Helmut Kohl	59%
69	Composer	Richard Wagner	56%
36	Football player/coach	Franz Beckenbauer	54%
180	Football player	Gerd Müller	51%
20	Composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	51%
93	Businessman	Karl Benz	49%
26	Racecar driver	Michael Schumacher	49%
133	Racecar driver	Ralf Schumacher	49%
116	Psychoanalyst	Sigmund Freud	49%
35	Tennis player	Boris Becker	46%
179	Football player	Oliver Kahn	46%
32	Tennis player	Steffi Graf	46%
5	Chancellor	Willy Brandt	46%
63	Rocket scientist	Wernher von Braun	44%
50	Actress	Marlene Dietrich	38%
38	Pop singer	Nena	38%
84	Philosopher	Friedrich Nietzsche	36%
82	Chancellor	Gerhard Schröder	36%
43	Philosopher	Immanuel Kant	36%
142	Businessman	Levi Strauss	36%
37	Industrialist, his List	Oskar Schindler	36%
200	Model	Claudia Schiffer	33%
41	TV presenter	Harald Schmidt	33%
21	Chancellor	Helmut Schmidt	33%
126	Physicist	Max Planck	33%
182	Engineer, inventor	Nicolaus Otto	33%
115	Emperor	Otto I	33%
175	Novelist	Günter Wilhelm Grass	31%
166	Astronomer, mathematician	Johannes Kepler	31%
76	Novelist	Thomas Mann	31%
135	Emperor	Frederick I	28%
68	Novelist	Friedrich Schiller	28%
110	Businessman	Gottlieb Daimler	28%
4	Member of the White Rose	Hans Scholl	28%
70	Figure skater	Katarina Witt	28%
4	Member of the White Rose	Sophie Scholl	28%
134	Diarist	Anne Frank	26%
112	Politician, activist	Rosa Luxemburg	26%
77	Novelist	Hermann Hesse	23%
92	Boxer	Max Schmeling	23%
174	Roman officer, tribal Germanic chieftain	Arminius	21%
66	Minister of Defence	Franz Josef Strauß	21%
42	King	Frederick II of Prussia	21%
195	Composer	Richard Strauss	21%
51	Physician	Robert Koch	21%
91	Painter	Albrecht Dürer	18%
89	Physicist	Carl Fredrich Gauss	18%
49	Military officer	Claus von Stauffenberg	18%
94	Emperor	Frederick II	18%
71	Football player	Fritz Walter	18%
153	Philosopher, mathematician	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	18%
52	Vice Chancellor	Joschka Fischer	18%
186	Federal President	Roman Herzog	18%
61	Explorer	Alexander von Humboldt	15%
154	Philosopher	Arthur Schopenhauer	15%
113	Playwright	Bertold Brecht	15%
146	Businessman	Ferdinand Porsche	15%
53	Novelist	Karl May	15%
108	Astronomer	Nicolaus Copernicus	15%
95	Pop singer	Reinhard Mey	15%
78	Actress	Romy Schneider	15%
100	Football player	Uwe Seeler	15%
158	Physicist	Werner Heisenberg	15%
18	Physician	Albert Schweitzer	13%
23	Feminist, journalist	Alice Schwarzer	13%
105	Theologian	Edith Stein	13%
181	Aviation pioneer	Ferdinand von Zeppelin	13%
96	Novelist	Heinrich Heine	13%
31	Cyclist, 1997 Tour de France	Jan Ullrich	13%
14	Industrialist, founder of corporate namesake	Robert Bosch	13%
56	Football player	Rudi Völler	13%
162	Engineer, inventor	Rudolf Diesel	13%
88	Women who rebuilt German cities	Trümmerfrauen	13%
120	Rock musician	Udo Lindenberg	13%
145	Physicist, businessman	Werner von Siemens	13%
29	TV presenter, journalist	Günther Jauch	10%
90	Football player	Helmut Rahn	10%
25	Rock singer, actor, activist	Herbert Grönemeyer	10%
46	Nun, poet, composer	Hildegard von Bingen	10%
128	Writer	Jacob Grimm	10%
157	Cardinal, future Pope	Joseph Ratzinger	10%
27	Chancellor	Ludwig Erhard	10%
72	Pop singer	Nicole	10%
143	Football coach	Seep Herberger	10%
163	Presenter, musician	Stefan Raab	10%
24	TV presenter	Thomas Gottschalk	10%
128	Writer	Wilhelm Grimm	10%
65	Metal singer	Campino	8%
30	Pop singer, producer	Dieter Bohlen	8%
34	Theologian	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	8%
103	Chess player	Emanuel Lasker	8%
97	Would-be assassin	Georg Elser	8%
39	Vice Chancellor	Hans-Dietrich Genscher	8%
45	Pop singer	Hartmut Engler	8%
132	Novelist	Heinrich Böll	8%
57	Comedian	Heinz Erhardt	8%
178	Fashion designer	Karl Lagerfeld	8%
16	Inventor	Konrad Zuse	8%
74	Aviator	Otto Lilienthal	8%
48	Federal President	Richard von Weizsäcker	8%
149	Magician	Roy Horn	8%
149	Magician	Siegfried Fischbacher	8%
28	Physicist	Wilhelm Röntgen	8%
87	Businesswoman	Beate Uhse	5%
15	Pop singer	Daniel Küblböck	5%
47	Pop singer	Heino	5%
59	Racecar driver	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	5%
40	Actor	Heinz Rühmann	5%
86	Priest	Karl Lehmann	5%
144	Actor	Klaus Kinski	5%
139	King	Ludwig II	5%
197	Pirate	Nikolaus Störtebeker	5%
165	Punk singer	Nina Hagen	5%
62	Rock singer	Peter Kraus	5%
79	Ski jumper	Sven Hannawald	5%
114	President of West Germany	Theodor Heuss	5%
118	Writer	Wilhelm Busch	5%
11	Priest	Adolph Kolping	3%
55	Theologian	Albertus Magnus	3%
184	Communist, feminist	Clara Zetkin	3%
169	Comedian	Dieter Hildebrandt	3%
196	Minister President of Bavaria	Edmund Stoiber	3%
106	Rock singer	Farin Urlaub	3%
137	Swimmer	Franziska van Almsick	3%
73	Theologian	Friedrich von Bodelschwingh	3%
173	East German politician, Mayor of Berlin	Gregor Gysi	3%
185	Journalist, philosopher	Hannah Arendt	3%
191	Boxer	Henry Maske	3%
99	Composer	James Last	3%
124	Cardinal, activist	Josef Frings	3%
83	Artist	Joseph Bueys	3%
17	Theologian	Joseph Kentenich	3%
156	Businessman	Karl Hans Albrecht	3%
19	Actor, activist	Karlheinz Böhm	3%
98	Linguist	Konrad Duden	3%
75	Journalist	Marion Gräfin Dönhoff	3%
193	Football player	Michael Ballack	3%
199	Physician, activist	Mildred Scheel	3%
44	TV presenter	Patrick Lindner	3%
123	Pop singer	Peter Maffay	3%
22	Politician	Regine Hildebrandt	3%
58	Rock singer	Roy Black	3%
85	Activist	Rudi Dutschke	3%
67	Physician	Sebastian Kneipp	3%
156	Businessman	Theodor Paul Albrecht	3%
54	Film director	Vicco von Bülow	3%
81	Actor	Willy Millowitsch	3%
60	Activist	Wolfgang Apel	3%
109	Mathematician	Adam Ries	0%
148	Poet	August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben	0%
194	Scientist, film director	Bernhard Grzimek	0%
140	Physicist, businessman	Carl Friedrich Zeiss	0%
117	Businesswoman	Christine Lucci	0%
150	Bobsledder	Christoph Langen	0%
138	Theologian	Clemens August Graf von Galen	0%
64	Basketball player	Dirk Nowitzski	0%
80	Empress	Elisabeth Wittelsbach	0%
111	Writer	Erich Kästner	0%
121	Theologian	Eugen Drewermann	0%
122	Physician	Ferdinand Sauerbruch	0%
189	Pop singer	Frank Schöbel	0%
161	Actor, comedian	Götz George	0%
183	Businesswoman	Grete Schickedanz	0%
164	Singer, actor	Hans Albers	0%
177	Pop singer	Hans Hartz	0%
167	Radio, TV presenter	Hans Rosenthal	0%
172	Reggae singer	Hans Söllner	0%
159	Actor	Harald Juhnke	0%
192	Violinist	Helmut Zacharias	0%
187	Rocket physicist	Hermann Orberth	0%
129	Freiherr	Hieronymous Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen	0%
119	Politician	Hildegard Hamm-Brücher	0%
141	Actress	Hildegard Knef	0%
176	Actress	Inge Meysel	0%
190	Businessman	Jakob Fugger	0%
101	Physician, activist	Jenny de la Torre Castro	0%
127	Federal President	Johannes Rau	0%
188	Comedian, actor	Karl Valentin	0%
171	Priest, activist	Kilian Saum	0%
155	Novelist, journalist	Kurt Tucholsky	0%
152	Physicist	Manfred von Ardenne	0%
170	Actress	Marie Theres Kroetz-Relin	0%
151	Singer, Eurovision	Michelle	0%
198	Presenter, comedian	Peter Frankenfeld	0%
147	Journalist	Peter Scholl-Latour	0%
131	Journalist	Rudolf Augstein	0%
104	Philosopher	Rudolf Steiner	0%
168	Physician, journalist, activist	Rupert Neudeck	0%
33	Physician	Samuel Hahnemann	0%
136	Cosmonaut	Sigmund Jähn	0%
125	Schoolgirl, admin of Internet forum	Silke Fritzen	0%
160	Fictional	Till Eulenspiegel	0%
107	Soul singer	Xavier Naidoo	0%