Statistics for The Top 100 Influential Figures in American History

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Rank	Hint	Person	% Correct
2	Politician	George Washington	98%
1	Politician	Abraham Lincoln	94%
15	Politician	Theodore Roosevelt	94%
98	Reformer	Booker T. Washington	93%
4	Politician	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	90%
3	Politician	Thomas Jefferson	88%
8	Activist	Martin Luther King Jr.	87%
42	Activist	Eleanor Roosevelt	81%
9	Inventor	Thomas Edison	81%
25	Politician	John Adams	78%
6	Various	Benjamin Franklin	76%
55	Politician	John Quincy Adams	76%
18	Politician	Andrew Jackson	75%
17	Politician	Ronald Reagan	75%
28	Politician	Dwight Eisenhower	68%
99	Politician	Richard Nixon	67%
44	Politician	Lyndon B. Johnson	66%
21	Politician	Harry S Truman	64%
12	Politician	Ulysses S. Grant	64%
14	Businessman	Henry Ford	63%
13	Politician	James Madison	63%
11	Businessman	John D. Rockefeller	61%
10	Politician	Woodrow Wilson	59%
66	Singer	Elvis Presley	56%
54	Businessman	Bill Gates	55%
32	Scientist	Albert Einstein	54%
70	Explorers	Lewis and Clark	53%
57	General	Robert E. Lee	53%
76	Architect	Frank Lloyd Wright	52%
23	Inventors	Wright Brothers	51%
52	Religious Figure	Joseph Smith	50%
16	Writer	Mark Twain	50%
5	Politician	Alexander Hamilton	46%
20	Businessman	Andrew Carnegie	45%
75	Athlete	Babe Ruth	43%
85	Writer	Ernest Hemingway	43%
24	Inventor	Alexander Graham Bell	38%
38	Activist	Susan B. Anthony	34%
35	Athlete	Jackie Robinson	33%
79	Singer	Louis Armstrong	33%
50	Politician	James K. Polk	31%
47	Activist	Frederick Douglass	28%
74	Religious Figure	Brigham Young	27%
78	Activist	John Brown	27%
27	Inventor	Eli Whitney	26%
7	Politician	John Marshall	26%
84	Activist	Thurgood Marshall	26%
63	Politician	George Marshall	25%
37	Businessman	J. P. Morgan	25%
22	Singer	Walt Whitman	24%
62	Philosopher	William James	24%
92	Writers	John Steinbeck	23%
48	Scientist	Robert Oppenheimer	22%
65	Writer	Henry David Thoreau	21%
41	Activist	Harriet Beecher Stowe	20%
26	Businessman	Walt Disney	20%
34	Scientist	Jonas Salk	19%
33	Writer	Ralph Waldo Emerson	18%
31	Politician	Henry Clay	17%
19	Writer	Thomas Paine	17%
82	Pollster	George Gallup	16%
60	Writer	William Faulkner	16%
100	Writer	Herman Melville	15%
30	Activist	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	14%
68	Scientist	James D. Watson	14%
51	Activist	Margaret Sanger	14%
45	Inventor	Samuel Morse	12%
43	Activist	W. E. B. DuBois	12%
58	Politician	John C. Calhoun	11%
40	Educator	John Dewey	11%
29	Politician	Earl Warren	10%
88	Scientist	Enrico Fermi	10%
90	Religious Figure	Jonathan Edwards	10%
39	Activist	Rachel Carson	10%
36	Politician	William Jennings Bryan	10%
80	Writer	William Randolph Hearst	10%
83	Writer	James Cooper	9%
71	Writer	Noah Webster	9%
72	Businessman	Sam Walton	9%
91	Activist	Lyman Beecher	8%
93	Activist	Nat Turner	8%
64	Activist	Jane Addams	7%
86	Religious Figure	Mary Baker Eddy	7%
53	Politician	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	7%
77	Activist	Betty Friedan	6%
56	Reformer	Horace Mann	6%
59	Architect	Louis Sullivan	6%
81	Scientist	Margaret Mead	6%
96	Politician	Ralph Nader	6%
95	Businessman	Sam Goldwyn	6%
87	Writer	Benjamin Spock	5%
94	Businessman	George Eastman	5%
97	Songwriter	Stephen Foster	5%
46	Activist	William Lloyd Garrison	5%
73	Inventor	Cyrus McCormick	4%
49	Reformer	Frederick Law Olmsted	4%
69	Businessman	James Gordon Bennett	4%
67	Businessman	P. T. Barnum	4%
61	Activist	Samuel Gompers	4%
89	Writer	Walter Lippman	3%