| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Painter who cut his ear off | Vincent van Gogh | 97%
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| WWII attic diarist | Anne Frank | 87%
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| Prince of Orange / father of the country | William | 73%
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| "The Night Watch" painter | Rembrandt | 71%
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| Fictional detective | Hercule Poirot | 55%
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| King who owned, and misused, the Congo | Leopold II | 51%
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| Fictional reporter created by Hergé | Tintin | 49%
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| Three-time footballer of the year during the 1970's | Johan Cruyff | 48%
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| Exotic dancer executed for spying | Mata Hari | 46%
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| "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painter | Jan Vermeer | 42%
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| Loinclothed, high-kicking martial artist | Jean-Claude Van Damme | 41%
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| "Discovered" New Zealand | Abel Tasman | 38%
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| Painter of fleshy women | Peter Paul Rubens | 34%
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| Artist known for impossible staircases | MC Escher | 33%
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| Five-time Tour de France winner | Eddy Merckx | 28%
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| Painter who says what a pipe isn't | René Magritte | 26%
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| First person to see single-celled organisms | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 25%
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| Women's tennis greats | Kim Clijsters | 24%
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| Namesake of a woodwind instrument | Adolphe Sax | 23%
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| Women's tennis greats | Justine Henin | 22%
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| Mononymous humanist who disagreed with Luther but preached tolerance | Erasmus | 19%
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| Chanson singer who died in 1978 and was buried in Polynesia | Jacques Brel | 16%
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