Rank | Dude | Yeah, him | % Correct |
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2. | Napoleon Bonepart | Short, angry French military man | 89%
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4. | William Shakespeare | Englishman who rocked a pair of tights and wrote a bunch of plays | 84%
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9. | Alexander the Great | Short, blond, great Macedonian with a huge backyard | 81%
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5. | Abraham Lincoln | Beardy American prez who looks a bit like Daniel Day Lewis | 78%
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7. | Adolf Hitler | Power-hungry Austrian wacko who didn't have many friends | 78%
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6. | George Washington | The dollar bill guy. His head is shaped like a mushroom | 78%
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21. | Isaac Newton | Brit who spent a lot of time sitting under apple trees | 76%
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27. | Ludwig van Beethoven | Deaf German man of music; looked grumpy | 75%
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13. | Queen Elizabeth I | Queenie. The most famous ginger virgin in history | 75%
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15. | Julius Caesar | Roman emperor. Thought Brutus was his friend. Thought wrong. | 74%
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17. | Martin Luther | This German monk thought the church was full of crap and told them so | 73%
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25. | Plato | Another smart Greek guy... | 72%
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24. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Talented, smart-mouthed, childish Austrian composer | 70%
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35. | Benjamin Franklin | Hundred dollar bill guy. Invented stuff | 69%
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20. | Christopher Columbus | Died believing he had sailed west to India | 69%
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1. | Jesus Christ | Hippie dude from a broken home who was a really nice guy to everyone | 69%
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11. | Henry VIII of England | Fat, ginger English king; fan of divorce and beheadings | 68%
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10. | Thomas Jefferson | Wrote some kind of Declaration in the 1770s | 68%
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37. | Winston Churchill | Rolly-polly, cigar smoking British leader guy | 68%
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8. | Aristotle | Smart Greek dude who pointed a lot | 67%
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19. | Albert Einstein | German mad scientist, looked like Doc Brown | 66%
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16. | Queen Victoria | This dumpy queen was never amused | 66%
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12 | Charles Darwin | Nature-boy, not a believer of silly origin stories about apples and snakes | 64%
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29. | Leonardo da Vinci | Homosexual Italian sculpty-painty-inventy-Codey guy | 64%
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32. | Ronald Reagan | Crusty American actor president | 63%
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38. | Genghis Khan | Angry, blood-thirsty, rapey and pillagey Mongolian rampager | 59%
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30. | Augustus | Roman emperor who wanted his own month | 58%
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23. | Theodore Roosevelt | Teddy bear president | 58%
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26. | Louis XIV of France | King of France and the Sun and of tights and wigs | 56%
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68. | Socrates | Beardy Greek corrupter of youth. Threw wild poison drinking parties | 56%
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36. | George W. Bush | Election-stealing, dopey Texan | 55%
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48. | Johann Sebastian Bach | German composer who Baroque a bunch of stuff | 52%
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18. | Joseph Stalin | Terrifying Georgian with funky moustache who hated everyone | 51%
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49. | Galileo Galilei | Star-gazing Italian with the best name ever | 50%
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14. | Karl Marx | Not related to Groucho. Had an impressive beard | 49%
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43. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | FDR: American Badass | 48%
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71. | John F. Kennedy | Commie-loving president who should have skipped Dallas that day | 48%
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3. | Muhammad | Islamic dude who prayed a lot | 47%
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46. | Mohandas Gandhi | Peaceful, Indian nappy wearer | 44%
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61. | John Adams | Bald-ish, goody-good American president number 2 | 42%
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33. | Charles Dickens | British author of really cheerful stories of happier times | 41%
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60. | James Cook | English explorer. The Hawaiians didn't like him much | 39%
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45. | Alexander Hamilton | American whose ass was handed to him in a duel | 38%
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28. | Ulysses S. Grant | Fifty dollar bill American president | 36%
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39. | Charles I of England | English king........ of his own beheading | 35%
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57. | David, King of Israel | Biblical king, not a fan of philistines | 35%
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41. | James I of England | Scottish king.......of England | 35%
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52. | Gautama Buddha | Fat, happy statue guy | 34%
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34. | Paul the Apostle | One of the hippy guy's thirteen friends | 34%
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44. | Sigmund Freud | Austrian head shrinker; liked Oedipus | 33%
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40. | Thomas Edison | History greatest inventor and thief | 33%
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73. | Vincent van Gogh | Dutch painter who didn't like his ear | 33%
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83. | Louis XVI of France | Frenchie who could not keep being king without a head | 32%
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53. | Mark Twain | American writer who gave us Tom and Huck | 32%
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58. | George III of the United Kingdom | German king of England who went cuckoo | 31%
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55. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Made his own religion so he could have more wives | 31%
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82. | Richard Nixon | The most non-crookest man in America | 31%
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70. | William the Conqueror | Busted him some goddam Saxon arse to become king of Britain | 31%
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47. | Woodrow Wilson | Specky American wartime leader. Had a few points to make. No-one listened | 31%
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56. | Adam Smith | Scottish money-man with the most boring of names | 30%
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22. | Charlemagne | Italian king-emperor of France, didn't like Muslims much | 28%
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69. | Elvis Presley | Clean-cut, all-American hip-thrusting rocker | 27%
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94. | Harry S. Truman | American president. Nuked the bastards | 27%
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51. | James Madison | American president. Went shopping. Bought Louisiana | 25%
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74. | Nicolaus Copernicus | Heliocentric German star-gazer. Made him some powerful enemies. | 25%
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62. | Richard Wagner | Wrote opera about fat Viking women | 25%
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66. | Andrew Jackson | American president no-one outside of America really cares about | 24%
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86. | Michelangelo | Italian artist, fond of ceilings and naked guys called David | 24%
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75. | Vladimir Lenin | Russian rabble rouser with history's trendiest goatee | 24%
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67. | Constantine the Great | Roman emperor with his very own Turkish city | 23%
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54. | Edgar Allan Poe | The first Goth. Wrote about talking birds and beating hearts | 22%
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42. | Friedrich Nietzsche | German thinker who killed God | 20%
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64. | Voltaire | Church-bashing, freedom-loving smarmy French writer | 20%
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95. | Joan of Arc | God-bothering French chick with a sword | 19%
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76. | Robert E. Lee | Picked the wrong team to lead in the US Civil war | 18%
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93. | Nikola Tesla | Serbian inventor and mad scientist | 17%
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77. | Oscar Wilde | Witty and wilde Irish writer who liked him the dudes | 17%
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92. | René Descartes | French guy who thought and therefore he was | 17%
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63. | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Russian composer who thought cannons should be an instrument | 16%
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50. | Oliver Cromwell | Warty British party pooper | 15%
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59. | Immanuel Kant | German guy who thought too much and probably never went to the opera | 14%
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96. | Dante Alighieri | Italian funny-man who strolled through Hell just for a laugh | 13%
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89. | Ali | Islamic dude, wanted his own religion too, maybe to make up for his boring name | 11%
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81. | Francis Bacon | English scientist. Enjoyed ruffs, hats and pointy beards. Went well with eggs | 11%
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80. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French thinky-type and fan of revolutions | 11%
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100. | Johann Gutenberg | German whose machine prevented writer's cramp | 11%
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31. | Carl Linnaeus | Swedish nature-boy, wrote about plants and animals | 10%
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97. | Otto von Bismarck | Prussian Warmonger who made a country called Germany coz he could so there | 9%
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87. | Philip II of Spain | Spanish king who lost all his toy boats to a girl | 9%
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79. | Cicero | Lawyer emperor of Rome; thought Mark Antony was a dick | 8%
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85. | King Arthur | Not a real king. Liked round furniture | 8%
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99. | John Calvin | Made his own religion to piss off the pope | 7%
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91. | Pope John Paul II | Popular Polish catholic | 7%
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72. | Augustine of Hippo | Doomed humanity by inventing the Catholic Church | 5%
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78. | Charles II of England | English king; 17 illegitimate children; Penchant for massive wigs | 3%
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98. | Grover Cleveland | American president who shares his name with a Muppet | 3%
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84. | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Emperor who wanted to be a monk instead | 2%
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65. | Saint Peter | Was actually a rabbit, according to South Park | 2%
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90. | Thomas Aquinas | God-botherer, loved being a priest, probably a real boring guy | 2%
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88. | Johann von Goethe | German raconteur and Sorcerer's Apprentice | 0%
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