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All Most Famous People In History (MIT’s Pantheon)
DirectionsName all 10,000+ of the most famous people in history according to MIT’s Pantheon Project. Rank for this list is based on a number of factors, a major one being popularity of the person on Wikipedia across all languages. ‘*’ denotes females. Time bonuses for this quiz begin at 1000 people, you will receive 5 minutes extra for every 100 people starting with 1000.
Naming Notes: Many people with last names have just those accepted. Popes, Kings, Queens, etc who have a name with a Roman Numeral are accepted in the format “Charles XI” for example – you do NOT need the Roman numeral if it’s a “I” – otherwise type the Roman number out..do NOT use 2, 3, etc. Many alternate or simplified names are accepted – i.e. “Alexander of Europe” would allow just “alexander”.
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It would be nice to get a full update to this quiz, but I don’t think that’s happening when there’s 100 thousand entries and climbing lol. Maybe a update of the top 10-20,000 would be possible someday? I’m sure there’s plenty of people who would slide up and down the list in the five years since the quiz was updated last.
Any chance we could get an untimed version of this quiz?
no sorry, you get lots of bonuses as is. Premium members do get the untimed option (score not saved though)
Totally forgot about the untimed option. Thanks for the reminder.
Can you bring back the ones where the countries and occupations are split into categories
A few more suggestions:
Edmund Ironsides – Edmund (“Ironsides” is a title)
Henry John Temple – Palmerston
Harthacanute – Harthacnut or Hardicanute
Harold Godwinson – Harold (“Godwinson” is a patronymic, not a surname)
A few more suggested alternatives:
Gilbert du Motier – Lafayette
Akhenaten – Amenhotep (IV)
Tarquinius Superbus – Tarquin
Tarquinius Priscus – Tarquin
Ruy Lopez de Segura – Lopez
Eleuterus – Eleutherius
Montesquieu or de Montesquieu should work on top of Secondat
added alternates you’ve listed.
It’s great to see this quiz back again! Two comments – first, it looks like the “50 missed” is not working right; it only shows a few names, and some of those are ones I got. Second, I think there used to be a way of looking at the clues by category (politician, philosopher, inventor, etc.) – any chance that could be added back?
And two pretty random suggestions for alternate names – “Merovech” for “Merowig” and “Chlodio” for “Clodio”.
I really hope the categories can come back. That made this great quiz for me