Statistics for 50 Most Important People in Chicago History

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Known For	Answer	% Correct
Notorious Gangster	Al Capone	88%
Chicago Bulls / Sneakers	Michael Jordan	82%
Former U.S. President	Barack Obama	76%
Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	76%
Chicago Mayor / Democratic National Convention	Richard J. Daley	71%
Longest Serving Chicago Mayor	Richard M. Daley	71%
Chewing Gum	William Wrigley Jr.	68%
Media Executive and Talk-show Host	Oprah Winfrey	62%
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	59%
World Renowned Architect / Prairie School	Frank Lloyd Wright	59%
Secretary of State / First Lady	Hillary Clinton	56%
"Mr. Cub"	Ernie Banks	50%
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	47%
Movie Critic	Roger Ebert	47%
Physicist / Creator of First Nuclear Reactor	Enrico Fermi	44%
"Papa Bear"	George Halas	41%
Illinois Senator / Lincoln Rival	Stephen A. Douglas	41%
First African-American Mayor	Harold Washington	38%
Hull House	Jane Addams	38%
Nation of Islam Leader	Louis Farrakhan	38%
Civil Rights Activist / Minister / Politician	Jesse Jackson Sr.	32%
Prominent Lawyer / Scopes Trial	Clarence Darrow	29%
Department Stores / Philanthropy	Marshall Field	29%
Poet and Lincoln Biographer / "City of Big Shoulders"	Carl Sandburg	24%
Inventor / Mechanical Reaper	Cyrus McCormick	24%
Magazine Publisher	Hugh Hefner	24%
Chicago Blues	Muddy Waters	24%
Newspaper Magnate	Robert R. McCormick	24%
Mid-20th Century Progressive Politician	Adlai Stevenson II	21%
"Founder of Chicago"	Jean Baptiste Point DuSable	21%
Nation of Islam / Mentor to Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali	Elijah Muhammad	18%
Socialist Party of America	Eugene V. Debs	18%
Doomed Industrialist / Worker Strikes	George Pullman	18%
Conservative Economist	Milton Friedman	18%
Modernist Architecture	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	15%
First Female African-American Senator	Carol Moseley Braun	12%
World's Columbian Exposition Architect	Daniel Burnham	12%
"Father of Skyscrapers"	Louis Sullivan	12%
Two-time Secretary of Defense / Conservative Politician	Donald Rumsfeld	9%
Posthumous Icon of the Civil Rights Movement	Emmett Till	9%
Black Panther Party	Fred Hampton	9%
Journalist / NAACP Co-founder	Ida B. Wells	9%
Pragmatism	John Dewey	9%
Meat Industry Magnate	Gustavus Swift	6%
The Man With the Golden Arm	Nelson Algren	6%
Fiction Writer / Three National Book Awards	Saul Bellow	6%
Blues and Rock and Roll Pioneer	Bo Diddley	3%
Sears Department Stores / Philanthropy	Julius Rosenwald	3%
King of Soul	Sam Cooke	3%
Electrical Infrastructure	Samuel Insull	0%