Hint | Person | % Correct |
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A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. | Marie Curie | 94%
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Two of his songs, "We Are the Champions" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", have also each been voted as the greatest song of all time in major polls | Freddie Mercury | 81%
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A Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II. | Rasputin | 80%
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She made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. | Amelia Earhart | 76%
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Tony Blair erroneously accused him of possessing weapons of mass destruction. | Saddam Hussein | 73%
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According to one account, he nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. | Martin Luther | 72%
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Considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci. | Michelangelo | 69%
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Through further military campaigns, he ousted Spanish rulers from Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. | Simon Bolivar | 69%
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The popular belief is that she was bitten by an asp. | Cleopatra | 64%
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He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city after himself. | Constantine | 62%
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At 19 months old she contracted an unknown illness that left her both deaf and blind. | Helen Keller | 62%
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The new continent was named America after the Latin version of his first name. | Amerigo Vespucci | 59%
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On 2 January 1492 she entered Granada to receive the keys of the city, and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church. | Isabella I | 45%
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He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. | Charlemagne | 44%
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He encouraged black Zimbabweans to violently seize white-owned farms. | Robert Mugabe | 43%
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He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. | Laozi | 35%
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He told reporters he had designed a superweapon he claimed would end all war. He would call it "teleforce", but was usually referred to as his death ray. | Nikola Tesla | 28%
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During his reign, Mali may have been the largest producer of gold in the world. | Mansa Musa | 25%
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