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100 Most Significant Americans Of All Time

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Name the 100 most significant Americans according to the Smithsonian in 2014. Answers were ranked within 10 different categories.

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Andy47357

11 months ago

garbage quiz. no John Mose Browning, no Ben Franklin, no andrew jackson and no Dale Earnhardt, no medal of honors

DarthSauron

1 year ago

The smithsonian is wild for putting Robert E. Lee in “rebels and resisters” with people like MLK

jlk7e

1 year ago

How is Benjamin Franklin not on this list but Ronald Reagan is? Just a garbage list.

tendog

1 year ago

one of the worst lists of all time

jdtrue63

3 years ago

How is Christopher Columbus an American? He never even set foot on mainland North America.

TinkHolloway

4 years ago

Charlie Chaplin wasn’t American…

chiph

10 years ago

I’m getting a few that aren’t working: Graham, Malcolm X, Jobs.

And nothing to do with your quiz, but the list has some very questionable entries. Naismith wasn’t an American citizen until well after he invented basketball. Arnold won all his bodybuilding championships as an Austrian. Hulk Hogan? Where is Geronimo? And finally, a horse?

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to chiph

they aren’t part of the 100 – the Smithsonian published 110 with one extra per category they thought deserved mention – I didn’t include those.

CrowTRobot

10 years ago

Either “First Woman” doesn’t mean what I assumed it did, or I don’t think Bette Davis should be there…

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to CrowTRobot

it doesn’t mean like “First Lady” – just a term they chose for a category of women.

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