Can you name the A&E’s 100 most influential people of the last 1,000 years?

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NOTE: As presented by the A&E network on October 10, 1999; the list was compiled by a staff of 360 journalists, scientists, theologians, historians, and scholars.
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Life Dates	Influential Person	Known For
1400-1468		Invention/Industry
1642-1727		Science
1483-1546		Religion
1809-1882		Science
1564-1616		The Arts
1451-1506		Exploration
1818-1883		Politics/Thought
1879-1955		Science
1473-1543		Science
1564-1642		Science
1452-1519		The Arts/ Invention/Industry
1856-1939		Thought
1822-1895		Science
1847-1931		Invention/Industry
1743-1826		Politics
1889-1945		Politics
1869-1948		Social Activism
1632-1704		Thought
1475-1564		The Arts
1723-1790		Thought
1732-1799		Politics
1167-1227		Exploration
1809-1865		Politics
1225-1274		Religion
1736-1819		Invention/Industry
1756-1791		The Arts
1769-1821		Politics
1685-1750		The Arts
1863-1947		Invention/Industry
1770-1827		The Arts
20th Cen. Duo		Science
1596-1650		Thought
1929-1968		Social Activism
1712-1778		Thought

Life Dates	Influential Person	Known For
1870-1924		Politics
1881-1955		Science
1694-1778		The Arts
1561-1626		Thought
1265-1321		The Arts
19th/20th Cen. Duo		Invention/Industry
1955-		Invention/Industry
1822-1884		Science
1893-1976		Politics
1847-1922		Invention/Industry
1027-1087		Politics
1469-1527		Thought
1791-1871		Invention/Industry
1759-1797		Social Activism
1931-		Politics
1879-1966		Social Activism
1749-1823		Science
1874-1965		Politics
1867-1934		Science
1254-1324		Exploration
1480-1521		Exploration
1815-1902		Social Activism
1935-1977		The Arts
1412-1431		Religion
1724-1804		Thought
1882-1945		Politics
1791-1867		Science
1901-1966		The Arts
1775-1817		The Arts
1881-1973		The Arts
1901-1976		Science
1875-1948		The Arts
1889-1982		Invention/Industry
1706-1790		Politics/Thought

Life Dates	Influential Person	Known For
1578-1657		Science
1015-1085		Religion
1820-1913		Social Activism
1783-1830		Politics
1961-1997		Politics/Social Activism
1901-1954		Science
1903-1967		Science
20th Cen. foursome		The Arts
1588-1679		Thought
1451-1504		Politics/Exploration
1878-1953		Politics
1533-1603		Politics
1918-		Social Activism
1885-1962		Science
1672-1725		Politics
1874-1937		Invention/Industry
1911-2004		Politics
1882-1941		The Arts
1907-1964		Science
1904-1967		Science
1820-1906		Social Activism
1787-1851		Invention/Industry
1946-		The Arts
1820-1910		Science
1884-1962		Social Activism
195?-198?		Science
1889-1977		The Arts
1873-1921		The Arts
1914-1995		Science
1901-1971		The Arts
1460-1524		Exploration
1494-1566		Poliltics

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People of the Millennium Quiz

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Published: April 1st, 2009
Category: History
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Tags: person, life, millennium, influential, 1 000, world history pack, people, date, 100

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	Mull_Pacha:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	6 points
	hum hum, last 1000 years, not 2000 years!

	JAJDH:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	11 points
	I half-expected Ron Popeil to be on here. I mean...the Pocket Fisherman, the Showtime Rotisserie Grill AND Hair in a Can? (Right about HERE is where I can't keep a straight face anymore.)

	Klingsta:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	-4 points
	In that case, wheres Billy Mays? BILLY MAYS HERE FOR SPORCLE! IF YOU LOVE MENTAL STIMULATING QUIZZES AND FEELING LIKE A MORON WHEN YOU MISS A QUESTION, USE THIS PRODUCT! IT WILL MAKE YOU REALLY GOOD AT TRIVIA!! I strive to grow a beard like Billy Mays, the most legendary pitchman

	JAJDH:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	22 points
	But seriously, I really did think Eli Whitney would have made it. I guess interchangeable parts was too subtle of a concept to make the cut.

	JAJDH:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	3 points
	@ Klingsta - Somehow, reading your comment actually made me look for my remote.

	TeganX7:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	45 points
	Great quiz, but this list needs work!: Diana, Princess of Wales was a charming, hard working, and remarkably caring person, but was decidedly not one of the most influential persons of the last 1,000 years (or so). And with due respect to those who do good work on behalf of fighting AIDS, there were other unknown patients and doctors who contributed to fighting far more fatal diseases over 1,000 years (TB, cancer, pneumonia, cholera, smallpox, the plague, etc).

	CBW:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 04:57 GMT	11 points
	William I should work for William the Conqueror

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	montecarlo:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	20 points
	agree with TeganX7... i was quite upset at the western world for making a bigger deal of her life/death than mother theresa who died within a week of her from what i remember. .... on a side note, i got my 50th correct answer with less than a second left. shows how much a loser i am for the vast feeling of satisfaction i felt when i got it in time.

	Secret_Asian_Man:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	1 point
	@emh - I agree, where's Zheng He?

	bondy:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	10 points
	@ emh - considering the American continent has only really been in operation for a third of the 20th Century, that's not too surprising. A lot of the key figures are from the renaissance, which predates US history. I also agree with Tegan though - can't believe Princess Di is considered one of the 100 most influential figures of the millenium

	weizenugb:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	2 points
	Incredible game.

	Jaksiel:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	24 points
	I feel like just "Dante" should be acceptable. Also, I enjoy Spielberg's movies, but is he really one of the 100 most influential people of the last 1000 years?

	Hugo_Whitfield:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	4 points
	I have to agree with EMH b/c this is really more so a quiz about the 100 most influential people from the western world in the past millenium, essentially.

	nearlyextinct:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	12 points
	Awesome quiz. Remember people the creator of this quiz just made the quiz he didn't chose the people.

	snoreway:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	6 points
	My math may be off, but seriously, only six people from outside Europe or the U.S. Deng Xiaoping and Emperor Meiji laugh at A&E.

	tcalleen:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	4 points
	I would have done much better if I could have spelled more names! I think it's pretty surprising who's on the list versus who isn't. Zworykin's on here, but Farnsworth isn't? And no one involved in the space program is here.

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	Dodge:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:22 GMT	3 points
	Wow, awesome quiz. This one will keep me occupied for a long time to come.

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	micah:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:28 GMT	22 points
	Genghis Khan was known for exploration?

	yankeessuck8991:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:38 GMT	17 points
	apparently Albus Dumbledore is not good enough for this muggle crap.

	brianc:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	5 points
	there aren't enough mathematicians on here :( newton of course, but what about leibniz? voltaire is famous for making fun of him. and what about euler?

	Caedus:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:57 GMT	30 points
	So the Beatles and Princess Diana are more important than Otto von Bismarck? I know it's A&E but give me a break.

	SowCrates:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	-3 points
	I don't have the trivial stamina for these ones...it's moot to say I know of nearly all the ones I didn't get, because for me to have got them I would have just been spewing famous people of the last millennium without actually targeting a particular person for a peculiar field/set of years

	beckleyman:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:03 GMT	12 points
	I love my music, don't get me wrong, but are Elvis and The Beatles really some of the more influential people of the last 1000 years? Same thing with Spielberg and Princess Di. While their music, movies, and activism may inspire generations, I find it hard to believe that their contributions are among the MOST important of the last 1000 years.

	yes:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:04 GMT	12 points
	A&E didn't do a very good job. Out of the billions of people that lived the past two hundred years I don't think Louis Armstrong, Eleanor Roosevelt or Picasso are among them. The list is also very biased toward the past two hundred years or so.

	yes:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:07 GMT	18 points
	@Balla: That's not true at all, actually. A lot of the world has had a massive impact on the rest of the world. You can't isolate one area "just because." The Islamic world was completely dominant culturally, militarily and scientifically over Europe for more than half of the millennium, and yet this list doesn't acknowledge it at all.

	SowCrates:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	0 points
	@ micah: Glad you pointed that out. Reasons why they listed Genghis Khan for exploration: 1) pillage, rape and murder was an unacceptable pitch for a category. He's the only guy on this list who qualifies for all three 2) Scanning through the available categories for individuals, your options were either "exploration" or "politics". Personally, I think they made the more-wrong choice, but both appear wrong to begin with. 3) Arguably, European exposure to the Far East doesn't happen when it does if everything in between (Eurasia and the Middle East) wasn't consolidated under what was a surprising orderly empire. While infrastructure wasn't really the Mongol Call-to-Arms, things like postal services and maintaining that nobody BUT the Mongols is allowed to march into villages and wreck up the place allowed for easier movement between continents. I'd argue the Mongolian Empire was the first step away from history's considerable concentration on the Mediterranean.

	dallastim:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	10 points
	How is Mark Twain not on the list? He had to have had a greater impact than Spielberg.

	jawa88:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:28 GMT	14 points
	Did anyone else sing the Philosopher Song from Monty Python to get some of the answers? It got me like 6 of them =)

	ubernora:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:44 GMT	-4 points
	@Kevin, Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized the concept of first lady and was extremely socially active in a time of depression no less, and broke grounds for women in American politics.

	Heef:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:52 GMT	24 points
	Princess Diana!! Very, very funny. All she was brilliant at was self-publicity, adultery and manipulation of the media. How she could be considered in the top 100 most influential people of the years 1000-2000 is, frankly, bizarre! Top quiz though.

	ubernora:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:53 GMT	3 points
	also @Kevin, Louis Armstrong, while not the inventor of jazz, was nevertheless instrumental in making it mainstream and groundbreaking. Picasso likewise was groundbreaking.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:54 GMT	15 points
	For purposes of the quiz, I wish the list was organized either by dates or by category (arts, politics, etc.) It was so jumbled it made it hard to try to figure out who I was missing.

	ubernora:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 06:57 GMT	10 points
	I'm kind of sad there are no impressionist artists on there, but I guess to choose one would be hard and to choose 6 or so would be silly. Also, Hitchcock is totally more influential than Spielberg. And how about Paracelsus? He didn't do much other than revolutionize medicine and chemistry. I think that's worth ranking over Elvis or Reagan

	Jason:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 07:15 GMT	11 points
	I'm very surprised that James Maxwell was not included by the people who developed this list. His unification of electromagnetic theory is fundamental to much of our electronics and telecommunications throughout the 20th and now 21st century.

	JulieD:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 07:29 GMT	14 points
	@ubernora: I absolutely, totally, chucknorrisly agree that Hitchcock is more influential than Spielberg! (Spielberg surely was influenced by Hitchcock himself)

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	pdu:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	11 points
	Seems a bit US focused to me with all those US presidents there who, regarding the scope of 1000 years, didn't really do anything. Also you really should make sure to accept names in their native tongue. Not accepting e.g. Jeanne d'Arc is a no-go. Other than that it's a great quiz.