Statistics for Famous Italian people

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Sistine Chapel ceiling painter	Michelangelo Buonarroti	92%
Major poet known for the Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	72%
Media tycoon and politician known for "bunga bunga" scandal	Silvio Berlusconi	72%
One of the Three Tenors with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras	Luciano Pavarotti	67%
Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943	Benito Mussolini	64%
"Discovered" America in 1492	Christopher Columbus	64%
Polymath of the Renaissance, exemplar of the "Universal Genius"	Leonardo da Vinci	64%
Venitian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in 1254	Marco Polo	64%
XVII century Italian astronomer	Galileo Galilei	56%
Motor racing entrepreneur, founder of an iconic automotive marque	Enzo Ferrari	53%
1993 Ballon d'Or football player	Roberto Baggio	47%
Actress known for "Two Women" or "Marriage Italian Style" films	Sophia Loren	47%
Educator known for the philosophy of education that bears her name	Maria Montessori	42%
Physicist pioneer of electricity and power	Alessandro Volta	36%
This great mathematician of antiquity was Sicilian	Archimedes of Syracuse	28%
Female singer, dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s	Mina Mazzini	25%
Astrophysicist, first Italian woman to administrate the Trieste Astronomical Observatory	Margherita Hack	22%
Nobel prize for Literature in 1926	Grazia Deledda	14%

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