Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
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The queen who ruled the British Empire for 63+ years | 1901 | Queen Victoria | 88%
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The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | 1910 | Mark Twain | 86%
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Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina | 1910 | Leo Tolstoy | 81%
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The man whose killing sparked WWI | 1914 | Franz Ferdinand | 80%
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British nursing hero of the Crimean War | 1910 | Florence Nightingale | 77%
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The last emperor of Russia | 1918 | Nicholas II | 76%
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Irish author who wrote Dracula | 1912 | Bram Stoker | 74%
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President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 | 1919 | Theodore Roosevelt | 73%
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Wild-eyed court mystic of Czarist Russia | 1916 | Grigori Rasputin | 72%
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Creator of famous denim jeans | 1902 | Levi Strauss | 68%
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The 22nd and the 24th president of the United States | 1908 | Grover Cleveland | 66%
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German who said "God is dead" | 1900 | Friedrich Nietzsche | 65%
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Newspaperman who started the prize named after him | 1911 | Joseph Pulitzer | 62%
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President of the United States from 1897 to 1901 | 1901 | William McKinley | 61%
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Irish author of The Importance of Being Earnest | 1900 | Oscar Wilde | 59%
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President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 | 1901 | Benjamin Harrison | 55%
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Chemist who created the periodic table of elements | 1907 | Dmitri Mendeleev | 54%
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Author of Around the World in Eighty Days | 1905 | Jules Verne | 54%
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The most famous conductor on the 'Underground Railroad' | 1913 | Harriet Tubman | 50%
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Explorer of Africa who searched for David Livingstone | 1904 | Henry Morton Stanley | 50%
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The women's rights activist on the one-dollar coin | 1906 | Susan B. Anthony | 45%
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Outlaws of the old American west | 1907 | The Sundance Kid | 41%
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Outlaws of the old American west | 1907 | Butch Cassidy | 39%
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Post-Impressionist painter of Tahitian girls | 1903 | Paul Gaugin | 36%
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The Viennese painter of 1908's The Kiss | 1918 | Gustav Klimt | 35%
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The great peasant hero of the Mexican Revolution | 1919 | Emiliano Zapata | 31%
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French novelist and the author of J'Accuse | 1902 | Emile Zola | 27%
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Early 20th century financier who formed U.S. Steel | 1913 | J.P. Morgan | 23%
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Russian writer and the author of The Cherry Orchard | 1904 | Anton Chekhov | 18%
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The Confederate Civil War general blamed for the Gettysburg loss | 1904 | James Longstreet | 1%
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