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	95%
"Not a crook" president	Richard Nixon	93%
Victorious admiral at Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	91%
Dynamite inventor	Alfred Nobel	90%
Tsar overthrown in 1917	Nicholas II	87%
Most famous Egyptian queen, besides Cleopatra	Nefertiti	86%
Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	82%
16th century Frenchman credited with predicting the future	Nostradamus	77%
Greatest Spanish tennis player	Rafael Nadal	76%
He claimed that God is dead	Friedrich Nietzsche	71%
First prime minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru	71%
Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal	Gamal Abdel Nasser	55%
Nepalese co-climber of Edmund Hillary	Tenzing Norgay	55%
Panamanian dictator, 1983-89	Manuel Noriega	51%
Russian author of "Lolita"	Vladimir Nabokov	49%
Inventor of basketball	James Naismith	37%
Golf's "Golden Bear"	Jack Nicklaus	32%
Chilean poet who often wrote in green ink	Pablo Neruda	27%