Test Your Knowledge About Historical Figures! Trivia Quiz
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- 1.Which British king was famous for having six wives?
- A.
King George the 6th
- B.
King George the 5th
- C.
King George the 3rd
- D.
Henry the 8th
- 2.Which very mean man led Germany during the 2nd World War?
- A.
Adolf Hitler
- B.
Benito Mussolini
- C.
Josef Stalin
- 3.What is the name of the painter who made an abstract painting of the Spanish Civil War?
- A.
Pablo Picasso
- B.
Edvard Munch
- C.
Henri Toulouse Lautrec
- D.
Georges Surat
- 4.What is the name of the British prime minister who is often pictured with a cigar?
- A.
Winston Churchill
- B.
Neville Chamberlain
- C.
Earl Russell
- 5.What is the name of the Austrian man who helped found the principles of psychoanalysis
- A.
Harry Stack Sullivan
- B.
Gordon Allport
- C.
Alfred Adler
- D.
Sigmund Freud
- 6.Who were the pyramids of Egypt built as tombs for?
- A.
Pharaohs
- B.
Merchants
- C.
Slaves
- 7.Which leader of the African-American civil rights movement spoke the "I Have a Dream'' speech?
- A.
Martin Luther King
- B.
Rosa Parks
- C.
Thurgood Marshall
- D.
Malcom X
- 8.What is the name of the scientist who stuck out his tongue for a photo?
- A.
Albert Einstein
- B.
Stephen Hawking
- C.
Pierre Curie
- 9.What is the name of the man who invented the car?
- A.
Ferdinand Porsche
- B.
Jacobus Spjker
- C.
Karl Benz
- D.
Henry Ford
- 10.Which famous battle did Napoleon Bonaparte lose?
- A.
Fernando
- B.
Dancing Queen
- C.
Waterloo
- 11.In the 1960s and 1970, what British band were famous with their songs ''Hey Jude'', "Let It Be'', and "Eleanor Rigby''?
- A.
The Beatles
- B.
The Monkees
- C.
The Animals
- D.
The Kinks
- 12.What is the name of the musician who died in a plane crash along with two other musicians and their pilot?
- A.
Buddy Holly
- B.
Eddie Cochran
- C.
Carl Perkins
- 13.What is the name of the African-American woman who broke the law by not wanting to sit at the back of a bus?
- A.
Rosa Parks
- B.
Mary McLeod Bethune
- C.
Shirley Chisholm
- D.
Ella J Baker
- 14.What is the name of the pilot who disappeared mysteriously over the Pacific Ocean?
- A.
Amelia Earhart
- B.
Bessie Coleman
- C.
Roy Brown
- 15.Who were the two scientists who discovered the shape of DNA?
- A.
Banting & Best
- B.
Watson & Crick
- C.
Meitner and Hahn
- D.
Kernighan and Ritchie
- 16.Who was the bad guy who knocked down two tall buildings on that sad day in 2001?
- A.
Osama Bin Laden
- B.
Ramzi Yousef
- C.
Faisal Shahzad
- 17.Who was the terrible man who caused a big van bomb to blow up a government building in 1995?
- A.
Timothy McVeigh
- B.
Terry Nichols
- C.
Michael Fortier
- D.
Lori Fortier
- 18.Who was the man who flew a kite into a thunderstorm?
- A.
Benjamin Franklin
- B.
Nikola Tesla
- C.
Hal Abelson
- 19.Which man was shot dead by a horrible man named Aaron Burr in a fight?
- A.
Alexander Hamilton
- B.
John Locke
- C.
John Hancock
- D.
George Mason
- 20.Who invented the telephone?
- A.
Alexander Graham Bell
- B.
Thomas Edison
- C.
James Watt
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