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Real People - Sudden Death #3

The list below includes 20 real historical figures and 20 fictional or legendary characters. Click the people who are generally considered to have existed in real life.
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First submittedDecember 27, 2024
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Ali Baba
Attila the Hun
Captain Bligh
Captain Nemo
Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Euclid
Eva Perón
Florence Nightingale
Guy Fawkes
Hammurabi
Helen of Troy
Hugo Chavez
Inigo Montoya
Inspector Clouseau
Ivan the Terrible
Jean Valjean
Joan of Arc
Lara Croft
Long John Silver
Madame Bovary
Marco Polo
Martin Luther
Moctezuma
Nebuchadnezzar
Oliver Twist
Percy Jackson
Phileas Fogg
Pippi Longstocking
Prince Caspian
Robinson Crusoe
Saladin
Shaka Zulu
Sherlock Holmes
Sinbad the Sailor
Tarzan
Tutenkhamen
Vlad the Impaler
William Wallace
Zoroaster
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32 Comments
DwGrub
+7
Level 67
May 18, 2025
Hellen of Troy almost caught me, great quiz!
fuanacdc
+26
Level 89
May 19, 2025
It did get me. That's a tricky one because I believe the real answer is that we don't know for sure.
Elan
+10
Level 66
Aug 22, 2025
I knew it wouldn't be accepted as an answer, but Helen of Troy was 100% a real person. Modern historians are arrogant pricks who think they're smarter than everybody else and go around to every culture on earth telling them that their oral tradition is completely made up.
iRDM
+10
Level 81
Aug 22, 2025
found the greek
georgekotz
+1
Level 80
Nov 13, 2025
@iRDM: As a Greek, it is abundantly clear to me and to anyone with basic knowledge on the matter that Homer's epics and other ancient literature on the Trojan War are mythological texts and all individual characters can therefore be presumed to be fictional, even if some conflict could have taken place and served as inspiration. Why would we think otherwise? It's not like we believe in the Twelve Olympians anymore.
MississippiSnopes
+6
Level 66
Aug 25, 2025
It is pitiful for this quiz to include Helen of Troy, whose historical existence is debated.

It really destroys the value of a sudden death quiz to have an ambiguous answer.

I rate this quiz one star just for the poor thinking here.

RoboquizM86
+1
Level 61
Sep 6, 2025
That's a bit mean as she didn't confuse me, I knew she wouldn't be real!
Pagosch
+7
Level 66
May 18, 2025
William Tell is widely not regarded as a real historical person
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
May 18, 2025
Sorry about that. Replaced with Ivan the Terrible who was definitely real.
stylus
+25
Level 79
May 19, 2025
only time Will Tell...
RoboquizM86
+1
Level 61
Sep 6, 2025
Ha ha ha
SpartanLlama
+3
Level 78
May 18, 2025
19/20, missed Captain Bligh for Phileas Fogg oops, was going to go for Helen of Troy as my next guess so would've still gotten it wrong
Alexquiz17
+7
Level 94
May 18, 2025
7% for Inigo Montoya? You killed my father - prepare to die!
TheSinnohman
+8
Level 66
May 22, 2025
How do you know Helen of Troy wasn't real? Were you there at the time?
partdavid
+2
Level 74
Aug 22, 2025
That's not the way it works.
loganite
+9
Level 93
May 28, 2025
Inigo Montoya is real! I give you my word as a Spaniard! ;)
NeirolVeritas
+11
Level 35
Jun 7, 2025
"No good, I've met too many Spaniards."
BlackJohn
+6
Level 79
Jul 16, 2025
In Greece we are taught she did exist, so I lost on that one because I wasn't sure about Captain Bligh being fictional.

You could change her for someone more assuredly fictional imho

WhatIsLove
+1
Level 63
Aug 22, 2025
I mean in she was a daughter of Zeus, I think that alone disqualifies her as fictional
vindsins
+6
Level 46
Aug 22, 2025
many real kings and ppl in ancient greece and rome said they were children of gods (especially zeus)
RoboquizM86
+2
Level 61
Sep 6, 2025
I love that they chose her as it has caused a great debate
georgekotz
+1
Level 80
Nov 13, 2025
Huh!? Nobody teaches us that!
Zupity
+1
Level 67
Aug 22, 2025
Bombed out on Robonson Crusoe, because I was thinking of Alexander Selkirk.
szucska
+1
Level 46
Aug 22, 2025
Same
Amilcar
+5
Level 73
Aug 22, 2025
Wikipedia says this on Zoroaster: 'Little is known about Zoroaster; most of his life is known only from these scant texts. By any modern standard of historiography, no evidence can place him into a fixed period and the historicization surrounding him may be a part of a trend from before the 10th century AD that historicizes legends and myths.'

With all due respect to both Iranian and Parsee tradition, are we much more confident he was real than we are about Helen of Troy?

Striker
+5
Level 61
Aug 22, 2025
Helen of Troy comes from Greek mythology and is a character in the books by Homeros, which never presents itself as a historical book, but as stories. She is as likely to have existed as Achilles, Odyseus, Paris,... which is pretty unlikely. There probably was at one time a girl named Helen that lived in ancient Troy. But we have not reason to believe that there actually was a princess named Helen during a 10 year seige of Troy because of her kidnapping and a fight over her beauty.

Zoroaster is indeed not quite certain, but is at least probably based on somebody (or multiple people). Jesus like described in the bible is also very much up for debate, but even secular wouldn't describe him as completely fictional.

Both are questionable, but I don't think they are in the same ballpark of questionability.

Gorpik
+1
Level 49
Aug 22, 2025
I know a guy called Iñigo Montoya, but OK, I'll accept you mean the other Iñigo Montoya. Even though that guy was born before the film was made (or even the novel was written).
Falcon83
+1
Level 67
Aug 22, 2025
Oh wait! Tarzan is not real? :)
RoboquizM86
+1
Level 61
Sep 6, 2025
I am pretty sure he is but only Jane would know
luxint
+1
Level 67
Aug 23, 2025
Very good. Thank you
Pantelicio
+3
Level 58
Oct 22, 2025
Helen of Troy is a tricky answer, as no one can say for sure whether she really existed or not. Excavations have showed evidence that Troy really existed and at least one major siege had happened, so a Greek princess named Helen would not be a surprise to actually have been real.
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 66
Nov 15, 2025
Putting Helen of Troy on here is a misstep. Her existence is debated and it's not known for certain whether she was a real person. Just because a story has an element of mythology to it doesn't mean everybody in it didn't exist. Otherwise Jesus himself wouldn't exist.
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