Statistics for 100 Most Influential People of the 2nd Millennium (harder)

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Rank	Clue	Person	% Correct
79	Totalitarian Soviet dictator during World War II and the early Cold War	Joseph Stalin	92%
81	South African civil rights activist and president	Nelson Mandela	92%
76	The most influential band in the history of popular music	The Beatles	92%
95	Actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his silent films	Charlie Chaplin	89%
57	Singer known as “The King of Rock and Roll”	Elvis Presley	89%
16	Leader of Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler	88%
91	Filmmaker of Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List	Steven Spielberg	88%
52	Prime Minister of Britain during World War II and the early Cold War	Winston Churchill	88%
11	Renaissance polymath, painter of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, inventor who designed many mechanical devices	Leonardo da Vinci	87%
17	Leader of the nonviolent revolution that led to India’s independence	Mahatma Gandhi	87%
85	President of the US in the 1980s, icon of conservatism	Ronald Reagan	87%
5	English Renaissance playwright and poet, known for plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	87%
23	President of the US during the American Civil War, instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the US	Abraham Lincoln	86%
4	Naturalist who introduced the theories of evolution and natural selection	Charles Darwin	86%
21	Military leader in the American Revolution; first president of the United States	George Washington	86%
19	Renaissance artist known for sculptures such as David and the Pietà and paintings in the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	86%
43	Communist revolutionary leader, first chairman of the People’s Republic of China	Mao Zedong	85%
3	Church leader who started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	85%
27	19th-century French emperor and highly successful military leader	Napoleon Bonaparte	85%
8	Physicist who developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	84%
44	Inventor of the first practical telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	84%
41	Software developer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft	Bill Gates	84%
60	US President during the Great Depression and World War II, known for liberal social policies	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	84%
29	Entrepreneur who was the first to mass-produce automobiles	Henry Ford	84%
58	French folk heroine and martyr during the Hundred Years’ War	Joan of Arc	84%
98	Jazz trumpeter and singer, civil rights activist	Louis Armstrong	84%
35	Communist leader of the Russian Revolution, first chairman of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	84%
92	Founder of the profession of nursing	Florence Nightingale	82%
33	US civil rights leader known for activism through nonviolence and civil disobedience	Martin Luther King, Jr.	82%
73	Human rights activist, extremely popular member of the British royal family	Diana, Princess of Wales	81%
22	Conqueror who ruled the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history	Genghis Khan	81%
7	19th-century philosopher and sociologist, proponent of socialism and communism	Karl Marx	81%
49	Soviet leader who instituted social reforms and played a pivotal role in bringing the Cold War to and end	Mikhail Gorbachev	81%
64	Painter who pioneered Cubism, an art movement in which subjects are portrayed from multiple angles at once	Pablo Picasso	81%
12	Psychologist who founded psychoanalysis, a clinical method for psychological treatment through dialogue with a patient	Sigmund Freud	81%
15	Political leader and early president of the US, principal writer of the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	81%
26	Prodigious composer whose work is often considered the best of the Classical Era	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	81%
6	Explorer who established contact between Europe and the Americas, beginning the era of trans-Atlantic colonization and trade	Christopher Columbus	80%
80	Monarch who led England during a golden age in the 16th century	Elizabeth I	79%
2	Scientist and mathematician who developed calculus and foundational laws of motion and gravitation	Isaac Newton	79%
14	Inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	79%
62	Filmmaker and entrepreneur, pioneer of animation	Walt Disney	79%
10	Renaissance scientist who developed foundational laws of physics, discovered Jupiter’s moons, proponent of heliocentrism	Galileo Galilei	78%
1	Inventor who developed processes to mass-produce books using a movable-type printing press	Johann Gutenberg	78%
54	European explorer who published his account of his travels along the Silk Road and throughout Asia	Marco Polo	78%
40	Inventors of the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft	Wright Brothers	78%
68	Political leader in the early United States, inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal glasses	Benjamin Franklin	77%
39	Medieval poet who wrote the Divine Comedy, proponent of vernacular poetry	Dante Alighieri	76%
30	Classical composer whose dramatic music was pivotal in the the transition to the Romantic Era	Ludwig van Beethoven	76%
72	Military leader who led several South American countries to independence	Simón Bolívar	75%
63	18th-century author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	74%
28	Baroque composer often considered the greatest composer of all time	Johann Sebastian Bach	74%
88	Physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb	J. Robert Oppenheimer	73%
53	Physicist who pioneered the study of radioactivity	Marie Curie	73%
83	Tsar who developed the Russian Empire into a major European power	Peter the Great	71%
93	First lady of the US, diplomat and civil rights activist, first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights	Eleanor Roosevelt	70%
55	Explorer whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the earth	Ferdinand Magellan	69%
99	Explorer who established the first sea link between Europe and Asia	Vasco da Gama	69%
78	Monarch of Castile who supported Columbus’s voyages and ended Muslim rule in Iberia	Isabella I	68%
9	Renaissance polymath who developed the heliocentric model, in which the earth orbits the sun, and the quantity theory of money	Nicolaus Copernicus	68%
45	Duke of Normandy who conquered England	William the Conqueror	68%
86	Modernist author of Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake	James Joyce	66%
84	Inventor of radio	Guglielmo Marconi	65%
20	Enlightenment philosopher known as the father of economics, laid the foundations of free market economic theory	Adam Smith	61%
36	Physician and biologist who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic	Alexander Fleming	61%
71	US civil rights activist and conductor on the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman	60%
97	Biologist who developed the first effective polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	56%
100	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during its apex in the 16th century	Suleiman I	54%
25	Inventor of the steam engine which was fundamental to the Industrial Revolution	James Watt	53%
46	Renaissance philosopher whose political theories excuse acts of evil for political ends	Niccolò Machiavelli	53%
94	Moniker referring to the unknown first person to have AIDS	Patient Zero	53%
31	Biologists who discovered the structure of DNA	James Watson	52%
		Francis Crick	51%
42	Biologist who established the rules of heredity, consider the father of modern genetics	Gregor Mendel	50%
89	Activist for women’s suffrage in the US. The constitutional amendment that granted this was nicknamed after her.	Susan B. Anthony	48%
34	Enlightenment philosopher whose writings on self-determinism and republicanism spurred the French Revolution	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	47%
13	Scientist known as the father of microbiology, proved germ theory correct, developed processes to prevent the growth of bacteria	Louis Pasteur	46%
51	Physician who developed the first vaccine, for smallpox	Edward Jenner	44%
90	Inventor of the daguerreotype, the first widely used process of photography	Louis Daguerre	40%
18	17th-century philosopher known as the father of liberalism, known for writings on the natural rights of people	John Locke	39%
32	17th-century rationalist philosopher known for methodological skepticism, mathematician who invented coordinate geometry	Rene Descartes	39%
37	Enlightenment philosopher known for his wit, criticism of the church, and advocacy for freedom of speech and religion	Voltaire	39%
65	Physicist who did pioneering work in quantum mechanics, known for the uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	39%
38	Renaissance philosopher who dealt with logic and deduction, credited with developing the scientific method	Francis Bacon	38%
82	Physicist who pioneered theories of atomic structure and quantum mechanics	Niels Bohr	38%
61	Physicist who developed theories of electromagnetism and invented the electric generator	Michael Faraday	36%
87	Biologist whose book Silent Spring brought environmentalism into the mainstream	Rachel Carson	36%
47	19th-century inventor who designed the first programmable computer (which was mechanical, not electronic)	Charles Babbage	35%
24	Medieval philosopher who sought to reconcile Catholic Church doctrines with classical philosophy	Thomas Aquinas	35%
59	Enlightenment philosopher whose writings deal with the limitations of human knowledge	Immanuel Kant	34%
96	Operatic singer, one of the first international recording stars	Enrico Caruso	32%
74	Physicist who created the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	32%
77	17th-century philosopher known for socio-political theories such as the social contract	Thomas Hobbes	31%
50	Sex educator and activist for birth control in the US	Margaret Sanger	30%
66	Pioneering filmmaker of The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	26%
48	Enlightenment feminist philosopher and activist for women’s rights in Britain	Mary Wollstonecraft	22%
56	Activist for women’s suffrage in the US, writer of the Declaration of Sentiments	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	21%
69	Physician who first described the circulatory system in detail	William Harvey	19%
70	European church leader who established the independence of the church from secular authority	Pope Gregory VII	13%
67	Inventor who pioneered television technology	Vladimir Zworykin	12%
75	Biologist who co-invented the birth control pill	Gregory Pincus	10%