Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Protestant Reformer in Wittenberg, published 95 Theses against the Catholic Church and translated the Bible to German | Martin Luther | 100%
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Great english playwright, who wrote "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet" and "King Lear" | William Shakespeare | 100%
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King of England, who married 6 times and founded the Anglican Church | Henry VIII | 90%
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"Virgin Queen" of England, defeated the Spanish Armada | Elizabeth I | 88%
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"Terrible" ruler of Russia, first Russian Tsar, who started the eastwards expansion of Russia | Ivan the Terrible | 85%
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Prussian astronomer, who proposed a Heliocentric Cosmos | Nicolaus Copernicus | 78%
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Commander of the First circumnavigation of the world, died on this journey on the Philippines | Ferdinand Magellan | 71%
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Author of "Don Quixote" | Miguel de Cervantes | 69%
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Conquistador, who conquered the Aztec Empire | Hernán Cortés | 66%
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Reformator in Geneva, who founded the Reformed Church, believed in Double Predestination | John Calvin | 65%
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Conqueror of the Inca Empire for Spain | Francisco Pizarro | 62%
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Main leader of the Dutch Revolt, which gained the Netherlands its independence, his dynasty became kings of the Netherlands | William of Orange | 43%
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HRE Emperor, King of Spain and its colonies, direct ruler of the Netherlands and Austria, considert himself as an "Universal Monarch" | Charles V | 41%
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"Magnificent" Ottoman Sultan, who conquered Rhodes and Belgrade and partonaged culture | Suleiman the Magnificent | 35%
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Founder of the Jesuit Order, which became important as force of Counterreformation, Inquisition and missionary work in America and Asia | Ignatius of Loyola | 28%
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Emperor of the Mughal Empire, which reached its peak under his reign, supported religious tolerance and patronaged culture | Akbar | 15%
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Daimyō, who established his dynasty as the Shogun Dynasty and ended the Sengoku period in Japan | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 13%
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Korean admiral, who defeated the Japanese navy against much greater numbers by using Turtle Ships | Yi Sun-sin | 13%
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Great poet from Portugal and author of the "The Lusiads" | Luís de Camões | 6%
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