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Country	Clue	Person	% Correct
Italy	Fascist dictator	Benito Mussolini	100%
Egypt	Lover of Caesar and Mark Antony	Cleopatra	100%
France	French President since 2017	Emmanuel Macron	100%
Canada	Singer with over 90 million Twitter followers	Justin Bieber	100%
Italy	"Mona Lisa" painter	Leonardo da Vinci	100%
France	Corsican conqueror of Europe	Napoleon	100%
Cuba	Dictator and cigar aficionado	Fidel Castro	95%
Canada	"My Heart Will Go On" singer	Celine Dion	94%
Canada	Prime Minister since 2015	Justin Trudeau	94%
Israel	Founder of Christianity	Jesus	93%
Poland	Radiation researcher	Marie Curie	93%
South Africa	President who was jailed for 27 years in Robben Island	Nelson Mandela	93%
Germany	History's most infamous German	Adolf Hitler	92%
United States	World's richest person until 2017	Bill Gates	92%
United States	"King of Rock and Roll"	Elvis Presley	92%
France	Warrior, burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	92%
United States	Refused to give up her bus seat	Rosa Parks	92%
Brazil	Only player to have won three World Cups	Pelé	91%
South Korea	"Gangnam Style" rapper	PSY	91%
Sweden	Group whose songs are sung in "Mamma Mia!"	ABBA	90%
Argentina	Six-time Ballon d'Or winner	Lionel Messi	90%
Austria	Guillotined wife of Louis XVI	Marie Antoinette	90%
Colombia	Her hips don't lie	Shakira	90%
Russia	Current President	Vladimir Putin	90%
Netherlands	WWII attic diarist	Anne Frank	89%
Jamaica	Most famous Reggae singer	Bob Marley	89%
United States	Aviatrix who disappeared in 1937	Amelia Earhart	88%
United States	Military general who became the First President	George Washington	88%
Ireland	"Taken" and "Schindler's List" star	Liam Neeson	88%
England	"The Virgin Queen"	Elizabeth I	86%
Poland	The only Polish pope	John Paul II	86%
Saudi Arabia	Prophet born in Mecca in 570 AD who founded Islam	Muhammad	86%
Germany	First female Chancellor	Angela Merkel	85%
Germany	Composer of "Moonlight Sonata" who went deaf	Ludwig van Beethoven	85%
Serbia	Alternating Current inventor	Nikola Tesla	85%
Jamaica	The fastest sprinter of all time	Usain Bolt	84%
Netherlands	Painter of "The Starry Night" who cut his ear off	Vincent van Gogh	84%
Greece	Conqueror of Persia	Alexander	83%
Italy	Genovese explorer who "Discovered" the New World	Christopher Columbus	83%
Portugal	Most famous footballer	Cristiano Ronaldo	83%
Japan	Emperor during the World War II	Hirohito	83%
India	Leader of Indian Independence	Mahatma Gandhi	83%
Greece	Philosopher who drank hemlock	Socrates	83%
Albania	Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun	Mother Teresa	82%
Canada	"Titanic" and "Avatar" director	James Cameron	81%
Austria	Father of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	81%
Austria	Composer of "The Magic Flute" and "Turkish March"	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	81%
Romania	Count inspired by the above	Count Dracula	80%
Argentina	Scored the "Goal of the Century"	Diego Maradona	80%
Israel	Slew Goliath	King David	80%
Ukraine	Exiled Soviet leader assassinated in Mexico	Leon Trotsky	80%
Iraq	Dictator of Iraq, 1979-2003	Saddam Hussein	80%
Romania	Medieval ruler known for impaling his enemies	Vlad the Impaler	80%
Germany	"Das Kapital"	Karl Marx	77%
Germany	Protestant Reformation starter	Martin Luther	77%
England	Singer of "Hello" and "Rolling in the Deep"	Adele	76%
Russia	"Great" female tsar	Catherine II	76%
Russia	First Premier of the USSR	Vladimir Lenin	76%
Sweden	Peace Prize namesake	Alfred Nobel	75%
Serbia	"Benevolent dictator" of Yugoslavia, 1953-80	Josip Broz Tito	75%
South Korea	Today's most popular boy band	BTS	73%
Belgium	King who owned / misused Congo	Leopold II	73%
Mexico	Unibrowed painter	Frida Kahlo	71%
England	"Iron Lady"	Margaret Thatcher	71%
Poland	Creator of the heliocentric model of the solar system	Nicolaus Copernicus	71%
England	Lord Protector of England, 1653-58	Oliver Cromwell	71%
Australia	The Crocodile Hunter	Steve Irwin	71%
Kenya	Father of a U.S. President	Barack Obama Sr.	70%
Argentina	Pope born in Argentina	Francis	70%
Wales	Real Madrid paid £85 million for him	Gareth Bale	70%
Colombia	Drug lord of Medellín	Pablo Escobar	70%
Wales	"Matilda" and "The BFG" author	Roald Dahl	70%
Ireland	Lead singer of U2	Bono	69%
Ethiopia	Last Emperor of Ethiopia	Haile Selassie	69%
Spain	"King of Clay" tennis player	Rafael Nadal	69%
France	"Les Misérables"	Victor Hugo	69%
India	Siddhārtha Gautama	Buddha	67%
Haiti	Dictator known as "Papa Doc"	François Duvalier	67%
Belgium	Fictional detective	Hercule Poirot	67%
Philippines	Former first lady / shoe collector	Imelda Marcos	67%
Turkey	President since 2014	Recep Erdoğan	67%
Switzerland	20x tennis Grand Slam winner	Roger Federer	67%
Venezuela	"Liberator" of South America	Simón Bolívar	67%
Japan	Wife of John Lennon	Yoko Ono	67%
Spain	20th century dictator	Francisco Franco	66%
Sweden	Won Wimbledon 5 straight times	Björn Borg	65%
Argentina	Marxist revolutionary murdered in Bolivia in 1967	Che Guevara	65%
China	Most famous philosopher	Confucius	65%
China	"Great Leap Forward"	Mao Zedong	65%
Brazil	3-time F1 champion died in 1994	Ayrton Senna	64%
Scotland	Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	63%
Denmark	Shakespearean Danish Prince	Hamlet	63%
Scotland	16th century Queen of Scots	Mary	63%
Turkey	Founding father of the modern Republic of Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	61%
Israel	"Wonder Woman"	Gal Gadot	60%
Wales	First Tudor King	Henry VII	60%
Belgium	Loinclothed, high-kicking martial artist, aka JCVD	Jean-Claude Van Damme	60%
Colombia	Buxom star of "Modern Family"	Sofía Vergara	60%
Wales	British officer who helped Arabs revolt in WWI	T. E. Lawrence	60%
Spain	Queen who ruled with Ferdinand	Isabella	59%
Pakistan	Youngest Nobel Prize winner	Malala Yousafzai	59%
Portugal	Explorer who started world's first circumnavigation	Ferdinand Magellan	58%
Denmark	Fairy tale writer	H.C. Andersen	58%
England	Director of "Psycho"	Alfred Hitchcock	57%
Russia	"Crime and Punishment"	Fyodor Dostoevsky	57%
Australia	Actor who played the Joker	Heath Ledger	57%
Australia	WikiLeaks leader	Julian Assange	57%
Australia	"Neighbours" actress and "Showgirl" singer	Kylie Minogue	57%
Iran	Leader of the 1979 revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini	57%
India	Author of "The Satanic Verses"	Salman Rushdie	56%
Canada	"The Great One"	Wayne Gretzky	56%
Brazil	Supermodel married to Tom Brady	Gisele Bündchen	55%
Serbia	Winner of 17 tennis Grand Slams	Novak Djokovic	55%
France	Fashion designer who collaborated with the Nazis	Coco Chanel	54%
Norway	He painted "The Scream"	Edvard Munch	53%
Israel	Israel's first female Prime Minister	Golda Meir	53%
Ukraine	Voice of Family Guy's Meg	Mila Kunis	53%
D.R. Congo	He swings from vine to vine	Tarzan	53%
Russia	Photogenic winner of 5 tennis Grand Slam titles	Maria Sharapova	52%
Mexico	Aztec emperor killed in 1520	Moctezuma II	52%
Chile	Chilean dictator, 1974-1990	Augusto Pinochet	50%
Ireland	World's best-selling Celtic singer	Enya	50%
Czech Republic	"The Metamorphosis" author	Franz Kafka	50%
Sweden	Female lead in "Casablanca"	Ingrid Bergman	50%
Kenya	First President of Kenya	Jomo Kenyatta	50%
Poland	Solidarity leader and President	Lech Wałęsa	50%
Ireland	Victorian playwright sentenced to hard labour for being gay	Oscar Wilde	50%
Greece	Lesbian poet, circa 600 B.C.	Sappho	50%
Kenya	Child of Mufasa and Sarabi	Simba	50%
Haiti	Leader of the Haitian Revolution	Toussaint Louverture	50%
Portugal	Sailed from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	50%
Pakistan	Only female Prime Minister	Benazir Bhutto	47%
Cuba	Half of her "heart is in Havana"	Camila Cabello	47%
South Africa	Nobel Prize winning bishop	Desmond Tutu	47%
Norway	Discovered Greenland	Erik the Red	47%
Iraq	"An eye for an eye" king	Hammurabi	47%
Ukraine	Famous boxing brothers	Klitschko Brothers	47%
Scotland	Hero portrayed in "Braveheart"	William Wallace	47%
Spain	Author of history's first modern novel, "Don Quixote"	Miguel de Cervantes	45%
Romania	Most famous gymnast	Nadia Comăneci	45%
Egypt	President assassinated in 1981	Anwar Sadat	44%
New Zealand	Legendary mountain climber who died in 2008	Edmund Hillary	44%
Ireland	Author of "Ulysses"	James Joyce	44%
New Zealand	Teenage singer, sang "Royals"	Lorde	44%
Egypt	Liverpool FC forward	Mohamed Salah	44%
New Zealand	"Lord of the Rings" director	Peter Jackson	44%
Japan	Longest-serving Prime Minister	Shinzo Abe	44%
Italy	"Marriage Italian-Style" actress	Sophia Loren	44%
Switzerland	Folk hero and apple shooter	William Tell	44%
Australia	First and only female PM	Julia Gillard	43%
Mexico	One name singer, killed in 1995	Selena	43%
Netherlands	"Discovered" New Zealand	Abel Tasman	42%
China	"Charlie's Angels"/ "Kill Bill" actress	Lucy Liu	41%
Spain	Javier Bardem's wife	Penélope Cruz	41%
Venezuela	Popular President, 1999–2012	Hugo Chávez	40%
Wales	Legendary mythical king	King Arthur	40%
Iraq	Sailor of the seven seas	Sinbad	40%
Iraq	Architect who shares her last name with a famous Gigi	Zaha Hadid	40%
Greece	Jackie Kennedy's 2nd husband	Aristotle Onassis	39%
Nigeria	NBA plater known as "The Dream"	Hakeem Olajuwon	39%
India	Sitarist who collaborated with George Harrison	Ravi Shankar	39%
Nigeria	Soulful "Smooth Operator" singer	Sade	39%
Egypt	President who was overthrown during Arab Spring in 2011	Hosni Mubarak	38%
Egypt	History's first architect and doctor	Imhotep	38%
Ethiopia	Oldest human fossil	Lucy	38%
Peru	Friendly bear from "darkest Peru"	Paddington Bear	38%
Ethiopia	He is a "Starboy"	The Weeknd	38%
Netherlands	"The Night Watch" painter	Rembrandt	37%
Saudi Arabia	His successor (to Shias)	Ali	36%
Brazil	"Fruit Hat Lady"	Carmen Miranda	36%
Saudi Arabia	He lost citizenship in 1994	Osama bin Laden	36%
Iran	King who invaded Greece	Xerxes the Great	36%
Albania	Singer of "New Rules"	Dua Lipa	35%
Argentina	Popular First Lady of the 1950s	Eva Perón	35%
Serbia	Franz Ferdinand assassin	Gavrilo Princip	35%
Colombia	Footballer known as "James"	James Rodríguez	35%
Hungary	Prime Minister since 2010	Viktor Orbán	35%
South Africa	"Monster" actress	Charlize Theron	33%
Belgium	Current Real Madrid number 7	Eden Hazard	33%
Greece	Painter who relocated to Toledo, Spain	El Greco	33%
Italy	Radio pioneer	Guglielmo Marconi	33%
Austria	Symbolist painter of "The Kiss"	Gustav Klimt	33%
Switzerland	e = 2.71828...	Leonhard Euler	33%
Philippines	Most famous boxer	Manny Pacquiao	33%
Scotland	Creator of Sherlock Holmes, first mentioned it in "A Study in Scarlet"	Arthur Conan Doyle	32%
Cuba	Latin band leader and husband of Lucille Ball	Desi Arnaz	32%
Scotland	Young Obi-Wan Kenobi actor	Ewan McGregor	32%
Cuba	Miami Sound Machine singer	Gloria Estefan	32%
Algeria	Famous footballer named Karim	Karim Benzema	30%
Czech Republic	"New World Symphony" composer	Antonín Dvořák	29%
China	Led China towards a market economy from 1978 to 1992	Deng Xiaoping	29%
Hungary	"Hungarian Rhapsody"	Franz Liszt	29%
Saudi Arabia	Founder of Saudi Arabia	Ibn Saud	29%
Pakistan	Lawyer who is considered as Founder of Pakistan	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	29%
Chile	Poet and 1971 Nobel Prize winner	Pablo Neruda	29%
Chile	Portrays "The Mandalorian"	Pedro Pascal	29%
Turkey	"Magnificent" Ottoman sultan	Suleiman I	28%
Venezuela	President of Venezuela, 2013–	Nicolás Maduro	27%
Ukraine	1994 figure skating champion	Oksana Baiul	27%
South Africa	Zulu warrior king	Shaka	27%
South Korea	Self-proclaimed religious messiah who died in 2012	Sun Myung Moon	27%
Netherlands	Exotic dancer executed for spying	Mata Hari	26%
Jamaica	"Got 2 Luv U" and "No Lie" singer	Sean Paul	26%
Denmark	Explorer and namesake of a strait	Vitus Bering	26%
Colombia	Author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"	Gabriel García Márquez	25%
Finland	Hard rock band that won the 2006 Eurovision	Lordi	25%
Haiti	Fugees singer of "Sweetest Girl"	Wyclef Jean	25%
Pakistan	Prime Minister since 2018	Imran Khan	24%
Hungary	First king of Hungary	Stephen I	24%
Hungary	Actress who married 9-times	Zsa Zsa Gábor	24%
Switzerland	Goat-herding girl of the Alps	Heidi	22%
Japan	Seattle Mariners baseball icon	Ichiro Suzuki	22%
Switzerland	Philosopher who influenced the French Revolution	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	22%
Philippines	Controversial current President	Rodrigo Duterte	22%
New Zealand	"Gladiator" actor	Russell Crowe	22%
Saudi Arabia	Monarch who died in 2015	Abdullah	21%
Iran	Founder of Achaemenid Empire	Cyrus the Great	21%
Iran	Great king who ruled the empire at its greatest extent	Darius the Great	21%
Cuba	Dictator overthrown in 1959	Fulgencio Batista	21%
Portugal	2000-01 footballer of the year	Luìs Figo	21%
Jamaica	Rapper who got caught cheating and said "it wasn't me"	Shaggy	21%
Iran	Prophet also called Zarathustra	Zoroaster	21%
Algeria	Author of "The Stranger"	Albert Camus	20%
Kenya	World record holder in the marathon, with a time of 2:01:39	Eliud Kipchoge	20%
South Africa	Former president, 2009-18	Jacob Zuma	20%
Kenya	"12 Years a Slave" actress	Lupita Nyong'o	20%
Romania	Last king of Romania	Michael	20%
Norway	Led the first expedition to the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	20%
Serbia	First President, 1991-97	Slobodan Milošević	20%
Israel	Peace Prize-winning leader assassinated in 1995	Yitzhak Rabin	20%
Peru	Retired striker of Bayern Munich	Claudio Pizarro	19%
South Korea	Former UN General-Secretary	Ban Ki-Moon	18%
D.R. Congo	Played 18 seasons in NBA	Dikembe Mutombo	18%
Hungary	Billionaire who is frequently blamed for all the world's ills	George Soros	18%
Brazil	Popular President, 2002-11	Lula da Silva	18%
Taiwan	Director of "Life of Pi"	Ang Lee	17%
New Zealand	Father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	17%
Japan	Creator of "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro"	Hayao Miyazaki	17%
Turkey	Main hero of Troy	Hector	17%
Taiwan	Basketball player who sparked "insanity" in New York	Jeremy Lin	17%
Denmark	Current monarch	Margrethe II	16%
Denmark	Existential philosopher who wrote "Either/Or"	Søren Kierkegaard	16%
Ethiopia	Barefoot Olympic marathoner	Abebe Bikila	15%
Ethiopia	Marathoner with almost the same name as the above	Haile Gebrselassie	15%
Finland	"Finlandia" composer	Jean Sibelius	15%
Sweden	Author of the "Millennium" series	Stieg Larsson	15%
Chile	"Warrior" Inter Milan midfielder	Arturo Vidal	14%
Mexico	World's richest person, 2010-13	Carlos Slim	14%
Poland	"Minute Waltz" composer	Frédéric Chopin	14%
Czech Republic	World number one female tennis player in the late 70s	Martina Navrátilová	14%
Czech Republic	"Cuckoo's Nest" director	Miloš Forman	14%
Mexico	Mexican general who raided the U.S. in 1916	Pancho Villa	14%
Portugal	Current General-Secretary of UN	António Guterres	13%
Norway	"A Doll's House" playwright	Henrik Ibsen	13%
Belgium	Painter who says what a pipe isn't	René Magritte	13%
Albania	Dictator of Albania, 1944-85	Enver Hoxha	12%
Albania	"Hot Right Now" pop singer	Rita Ora	12%
China	7'6" basketball player	Yao Ming	12%
India	"Great" Mauryan Emperor	Ashoka	11%
Philippines	Actor-singer in Glee	Charice	11%
Nigeria	Actor playing Solomon Northup in "12 Years a Slave"	Chiwetel Ejiofor	11%
Jamaica	"Slave to the Rhythm" singer	Grace Jones	11%
Philippines	President during WWII, namesake of the biggest Manila suburb	Manuel L. Quezon	11%
Turkey	Surgeon who appears on Oprah	Mehmet Oz	11%
Algeria	Dictator since 1999 who was overthrown in 2019	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	10%
Romania	Communist leader, 1965-89	Nicolae Ceaușescu	10%
Austria	Scarred F1 driver	Niki Lauda	10%
Algeria	Bishop who wrote "Confessions"	St. Augustine	10%
South Korea	Figure skater called the “Queen”	Yuna Kim	9%
Taiwan	Kuomintang leader	Chiang Kai-shek	8%
Ukraine	Winner of Ballon d'Or in 2004	Andriy Shevchenko	7%
Venezuela	Won 2012 baseball Triple Crown	Miguel Cabrera	7%
Czech Republic	Writer and President, 1993-2003	Václav Havel	7%
Nigeria	Musician who popularised Afrobeat	Fela Kuti	6%
D.R. Congo	President of Zaire, 1965–1997	Mobutu Sese Seko	6%
Pakistan	President who resigned in 2008	Pervez Musharraf	6%
Nigeria	"Lotus Flower Bomb" rapper	Wale	6%
Peru	President who was convicted of human rights abuses	Alberto Fujimori	5%
Peru	Last Inca Emperor	Atahualpa	5%
Finland	F1 World Champion in 2007	Kimi Räikkönen	5%
Venezuela	Fashion designer who dresses the U.S. first ladies	Carolina Herrera	0%
D.R. Congo	Utah Jazz NBA player	Emmanuel Mudiay	0%
Haiti	"Jamie Foxx Show" Fancy actress	Garcelle Beauvais	0%
Peru	Inca god of sun	Inti	0%
Haiti	Haiti's first democratically-elected President, in 1991	Jean-Bertrand Aristide	0%
Finland	Linux operating system creator	Linus Torvalds	0%
D.R. Congo	Singer of "Bella" (2013)	Maître Gims	0%
Iraq	King who conquered Judah	Nebuchadnezzar	0%
Algeria	Football national team captain	Riyad Mahrez	0%
Chile	First Marxist to be democratically elected president	Salvador Allende	0%
Albania	Military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottomans	Skanderbeg	0%
Norway	3x Olympic figure skating champion	Sonja Henie	0%
Taiwan	Founder of Foxconn	Terry Gou	0%
Finland	Creator of the "Moomins"	Tove Jansson	0%
Taiwan	Currency President of Taiwan	Tsai Ing-wen	0%