Round 1 Results
Buddha over Confucius - A battle of 4's, Four Noble Truths win over the Si Shu (Four Books)
Alexander the Great over Genghis Khan - In an offensive showdown, Alexander remains undefeated
Charlemagne over William the Conqueror - The "Father of Europe" advances easily.
Pope John XXIII over Pope Urban II - Urban's hopes of meeting the leader of Islam are dashed
Elizabeth I over Bad King John - No stranger to defeat, King John loses yet again
Marco Polo over Ibn Battuta - Ibn covered some 73k miles. In basketball, traveling is a bad thing though.
The Prophet Muhammad over Julius Caesar - "Et tu Muhammad?"
Vasco da Gama over Zheng He - Says Vasco, "I don't even know who He is."
Johannes Gutenberg over Bill Gates - Gates couldn't handle Gutenberg's full court Press.
Christopher Columbus over Ferdinand Magellan - Having a holiday doesn't hurt it seems
Hernan Cortes over Pizarro - DYK?: Pizarro was second cousin once removed to Hernán Cortés!
Leonardo da Vinci over Michelangelo - Da Vinci is "the most diversely talented person ever to have lived."
Martin Luther over John Calvin - Luter takes advantage of Gutenberg's press, puts up 95.
Galileo over Copernicus - "The big yellow one is the Sun!" is all Copernicus can say afterwards.
Gandhi over Akbar the Great - Gandhi, snubbed by the Nobel Committee 5 times, peacefully advances.
Peter the Great over Louis XIV - "The Bronze Horseman" gallops past "The Sun King" to round 2.
Albert Einstein over Isaac Newton - Smooth move Einstein!
John Locke over Montesquieu - Marx and Hobbes watch with disdain from the bleachers
Rousseau over Robespierre - Being enlightened, neither was looking forward to a 2nd round matchup with Jesus.
Jesus of Nazareth over The Apostle Paul - Jesus, only profile to get more than 90% of vote in Round 1.
Abraham Lincoln over George Washington - Face time on the dollar bill doesn't help George. upset.
Beethoven over Mozart - Mozart walks away as the pep band plays the canon "Leck mich im Arsch".
Florence Nightingale over Mary Wollstonecraft - DYK?: Wollstonecraft's daughter wrote Frankenstein.
Hitler over Napoleon - Napoleon tries to win one-handed, comes up short.
Fidel Castro over Simon Bolivar - DYK?: Castro is among the world's richest people (est net worth $900 million).
Karl Marx over Lenin - Groucho, Richard, Skid, and the entire check group rooted loudly from the stands.
Charles Darwin over Sigmund Freud - Says Freud, "I just couldn't get in his head."
Louis Pasteur over Marie Curie - In celebration, a carton of milk is dumped on him.
Thomas Edison over Alexander Graham Bell - Edison tuants, "Here's a quarter, call someone who cares."
Henry Ford over Orville and Wilbur Wright - In a close one, Ford wins by a car length.
Joseph Stalin over Mao Zedong - The battle of the Red Armies.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over Nelson Mandela - Home court advantage propels MLK to next round.
