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100

In his youth, this great thinker wanted to be a soldier or merchant and enjoyed archery and wrestling as hobbies.

Who is St. Francis of Assissi?

100

This thinker worked on the mathematics for the very first atomic bomb. They made sure that the bomb wouldn't kill all of humanity.

Who is Richard Hamming?

100

This great thinker started his career when his neighbor asked him to do a drawing of a horse.

Who is Walt Disney?

100

This great thinker, along with his brother, was adopted and raised by a Catholic priest.

Who is JRR Tolkien?

100

This great thinker invented the thermometer and discovered the moons of Jupiter.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

200

This great thinker proved the existence of God in 5 ways.

Who is Thomas Aquinas?

200

This thinker won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum mechanics.

Who is Werner Heisenberg?

200

This was the name of the futuristic civilization Walt Disney tried to create.

What is EPCOT?

200

This great thinker only wrote about ordinary people, believing they were more interesting than dramatized characters.

Who is Jane Austen?

200

This great thinker was a millionaire in his 50s, but by the time he died, was completely bankrupt.

Who is Nikola Tesla?

300

This great thinker was a mercenary until he was hit in the leg by a cannonball.

Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola?

300

This great thinker accidentally created the roulette wheel while trying to create a perpetual motion machine.

Who is Blaise Pascal?

300

Walt Disney's first full color cartoon had this title.

What is Flowers and Trees?

300

This thinker is the originator of many phrases and words, such as "breaking the ice" and "bedazzled".

Who is William Shakespeare?

300

This thinker studied every type of barnacle known to man over a period of 10 years.

Who is Charles Darwin?

400

This thinker wrote more than 2 million words in their life.

Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?

400

This thinker believed he had received messages from an alien planet.

Who is Nikola Tesla?

400

This thinker invented the left-handed guitar.

Who is Jimi Hendrix?

400

This great thinker lost 8 children at a young age and had to fight a civil war. 

Who is Marcus Aurelius?

400

This thinker, who died under mysterious circumstances, created their most famous work while in a mental asylum.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

500

This great thinker stopped writing theology after a vision of Heaven. He thought his work was straw in comparison with the reality of God.

Who is Thomas Aquinas?

500

This great thinker's middle finger is on display in a museum.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

500

This great thinker based one of his films off the Jack the Ripper killings, which he lived through.

Who is Alfred Hitchcock?

500

This thinkers wise sayings were collected in a book called The Analects.

Who is Confucius?

500

This thinker is named after the city where they were born.

Who is Florence Nightingale?

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