Statistics for Historical Figures by Letter - N

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Hint	Figure	% Correct
He was defeated at Waterloo	Napoleon	99%
Gravity discoverer	Isaac Newton	98%
Fiddled while Rome burned	Nero	94%
"Not a crook" president	Richard Nixon	90%
Victorious admiral at Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	89%
Tsar overthrown in 1917	Nicholas II	89%
Dynamite inventor	Alfred Nobel	86%
Most famous Egyptian queen, besides Cleopatra	Nefertiti	84%
Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	83%
16th century Frenchman credited with predicting the future	Nostradamus	74%
Greatest Spanish tennis player	Rafael Nadal	73%
He claimed that God is dead	Friedrich Nietzsche	70%
First prime minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru	65%
Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal	Gamal Abdel Nasser	57%
Nepalese co-climber of Edmund Hillary	Tenzing Norgay	53%
Panamanian dictator, 1983-89	Manuel Noriega	52%
Russian author of "Lolita"	Vladimir Nabokov	50%
Inventor of basketball	James Naismith	36%
Golf's "Golden Bear"	Jack Nicklaus	33%
Chilean poet who often wrote in green ink	Pablo Neruda	26%