Quiz on Important People in History

Famous people in the World Quiz on Great, famous and Important Persons in History from politics, monarch, leaders, writers, business personalities, scientists and social workers.

The first Secretary General of the UNO was –
(a) Kurt Waldheim
(b) Trygve Lie
(c) Gladwyn Jebb
(d) Dag Hammarskjold

Ans. (b)

Whose trademark wardrobe included a bowler hat and cane?
(a) Mary Pickford
(b) Clint Eastwood
(c) Humphrey Bogart
(d) Charlie Chaplin

Ans. (d)

To which tribe Genghis Khan, the ruler belonged
(a) Sakas
(b) Seythian
(c) Mongol
(d) None of these

Ans. (c)

Who led English barons in an attempt to influence Henry III, called a parliament in 1265 and was defeated at the Battle of Eve sham?
(a) Sir Thomas More
(b) Wat Tyler
(c) Simon de Montfort
(d) Toby Belch

Answer. (c)

“Ted” Kaczynski, an American anarchist and mathematical prodigy, became known as what?
(a) Unabomber
(b) Oklahoma City Bomber
(c) Jewish Community Center shooter
(d) Beltway sniper

Answer. (a)

Berkshire Hathaway company is related to __
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Warren Buffett
(c) Jeff Bezos
(d) Alon Musk

Ans. (b)

What are Michael Jackson’s parents’ names?
(a) Ozzie and Harriet
(b) Joseph and Katherine
(c) Vernon and Gladys
(d) Calvin and Lula Mae

Answer. (b)

Which Greek dramatist, who lived from 485 to 406BC, wrote “Medea”, “Orestes” and “Iphigenia in Tauris”?
(a) Sophocles
(b) Eumenides
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Euripides

Answer. (a)

What was the native language of Albert Einstein?
(a) Inuit
(b) Urdu
(c) Latin
(d) German

Answer. (d)

Which country did Peder Balke, intensely dramatic landscape painter, pioneer of Modernism in his country, activist for social justice, and great-great-grandfather of jazz musicians Jon and Erik Balke, paint?
(a) Norway
(b) Belgium
(c) The Netherlands
(d) Czechoslovakia

Answer. (a)

Charlie Chaplin was a
(a) Great British Comedian
(b) Film actor
(c) British director, producer and composer
(d) All are correct

Ans. (a)

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By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Ro-drigo Diaz de Vivar?
(a) Saladin
(b) Che
(c) El Cid
(d) Lawrence of Arabia

Ans. (c)

Who was the person credited with saying “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits”?
(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Dianne Feinstein
(c) Harvey Weinstein
(d) The Rhinestone Cowboy

Ans. (a)

Which Greek philosopher wrote on many subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Hephaestion
(c) Socrates
(d) Plato

Answer. (a)

Azad Hind Fauz Or The Indian National Army (Ira) Was Founded By
(a) Subhash Bose
(b) Rash Behari Bose
(c) General Mohan Singh
(d) Shah Nawaz

Ans. (c)

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King Leopold was from –
(a) Sweden
(b) Austria
(c) Belgium
(d) Germany

Ans. (c)

General Victoriano Huerta, Emiliano Zap-ata and Pancho Villa feature in the history of which country?
(a) New Guinea
(b) Mexico
(c) Korea
(d) Japan

Ans. (b)

Who Among The Following Had Observed, Upon Gandhi’s Assassination. “None Will Believe That A Man Like This Body and Soul Ever Walked On This Earth”?
(a) Bertrand Russel
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Albert Einstein
(d) Leo Tolstoy

Ans. (c)

Winston Churchill was the premier of –
(a) Denmark
(b) Britain
(c) Switzerland
(d) Norway

Ans. (b)

Question: Which of these people is best known for their work as a photographer?
(a) Robert Mapplethorpe
(b) Gustav Dore
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Ai Weiwei

Ans. (a)

Napoleon was finally overthrown in the Battle of Waterloo in the year:
(a) 1814
(b) 1813
(c) 1815
(d) 1816

Ans. (c)

Which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated with?
(a) Classical music
(b) Commercial art
(c) Film Direction
(d) Classical dance

Ans. (c)

Who Is Regarded As ‘The Mother Of The Indian Revolution’?
(a) Rani Lakshmi Bai
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Madam Bhikaji Cama
(d) Priti Lata Waddedar

Ans. (c)

Napoleon Bonaparte belongs to which country ?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) China
(d) Russia

Ans. (a)

The famous words `Veni Vidi Vici’ were said by –
(a) Tullus Hostilius
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Servius Tullus
(d) Ancus Marcius

Ans. (b)

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Archimedes was born in –
(a) Lisbon
(b) Prague
(c) Munich
(d) Sicily

Ans. (d)

His name could be loosely translated as “ruled by, or supported by, horses” and is enshrined in the traditional doctors’ oath. Who is he?
(a) Confucius
(b) Aesculapius
(c) Frankenstein
(d) Hippocrates

Ans. (d)

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Timur died in the year
(a) 1510
(b) 1590
(c) 1610
(d) 1620

Ans. (c)

Napoleon crowned himself as Emperor in
(a) 1801
(b) 1803
(c) 1793
(d) 1807

Ans. (a)

What was the occupation of William Kidd, who was hanged for it in 1701?
(a) Pirate
(b) Horse-thief
(c) Highwayman
(d) Counterfeiter

Ans. (a)

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Mount Everest was named after –
(a) Auguste Everest
(b) Saint Arnaud Everest
(c) Jacques Everest
(d) Sir George Everest

Ans. (d)

Question: To which country does James Watt belong?
(a) England
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) Scotland

Ans. (d)

Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
(a) St Vincent de Paul Society
(b) Oxfam
(c) Pearly Kings and Queens
(d) Dr Barnados Homes

Ans. (c)

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Henry IV was assassinated in
(a) 1402
(b) 1405
(c) 1410
(d) 1412

Ans. (b)

Shankracharya was the founder of
(a) Buddhism
(b) Jainism
(c) Arya Samaj
(d) Advaitic philosophy

Ans. (d)

Name the last battle waged by Napoleon Bonaparte
(a) Battle of Vienna
(b) Battle of Munich
(c) Battle of Paris
(d) Battle of Waterloo

Ans. (d)

Adolf Hitler was born in –
(a) Germany
(b) Britain
(c) Austria
(d) Norway

Ans. (c)

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In Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain took on the mission to behead whom?
(a) The Green Knight
(b) The Black Knight
(c) The White Knight
(d) The Blue Knight

Ans. (a)

To which country Eli Whitney belonged ?
(a) England
(b) Scotland
(c) USA
(d) Germany

Ans. (c)

“History is Bunk” was said by –
(a) John Dalberg-Acton
(b) Henry Ford
(c) George Santayana
(d) Julius Caesar

Ans. (b)

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The popular detective character created by British writer Agatha Christie is –
(a) Sherlock Holmes
(b) Miss Marple
(c) Hercule Poirot
(d) Sam Spade

Ans. (c)

`Man is a Tool Making Animal’ was said by –
(a) Benjamin Franklin
(b) Peter L. Berger
(c) Norman Cousins
(d) Aldous Huxley

Ans. (a)

For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
(a) Metal sculpture
(b) Ceramics
(c) Oil painting
(d) Wood engraving

Ans. (d)

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What murderer lived at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London?
(a) George Chapman
(b) John Christie
(c) David Ferguson
(d) Mark Martin

Ans. (b)

Shakespeare passed away in the year –
(a) 1616
(b) 1617
(c) 1618
(d) 1619

Ans. (a)

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The popular leader of Cuba is –
(a) Raúl Castro
(b) Fidel Castro
(c) Che Guevara
(d) Fulgencio Batista

Ans. (b)

Who was known as the Lady of the Lamp
(a) Mary Seacole
(b) Clara Barton
(c) Florence Nightingale
(d) Mother Teresa

Ans. (c)

Which architect died after being hit by a tram in the streets of Barcelona?
(a) Lluis Domenech I Montaner
(b) Antoni Gaudi
(c) Antonio Palacios
(d) Secundino Zuazo

Ans. (b)

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Anousheh Ansari is the first Iranian, and the first Iranian woman, to do what?
(a) Win a Nobel Peace Prize
(b) Win a professional car race
(c) Travel in space
(d) Top philanthropic do­nations

Ans. (c)

Mao Tse Tung died in the year-
(a) 1966
(b) 1972
(c) 1974
(d) 1976

Ans. (d)

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Each of the following personalities were victims of assassination except one. Mark the one.
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) John F. Kennedy
(c) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
(d) Abraham Lincoln

Ans. (c)

Who adopted the surname ”Mountbatten” in 1947?
(a) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
(b) Joseph Goebbels
(c) Lawrence of Arabia
(d) Lord Louis Battenberg

Ans. (a)

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Porfirio Diaz resigned from the presidency of which country in May 1911?
(a) Bolivia
(b) Venezuela
(c) Mexico
(d) Peru

Ans. (c)

Who, as President of Uganda, was overthrown by his own army commanders in a military coup d’etat twice, in 1971 and 1985?
(a) Bazilio Olara-Okello
(b) Idi Amin
(c) Apollo Milton Obote
(d) Tito Okello

Ans. (c)

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Which historian impressed with the conquests of ‘Samudragupta’ called him the ‘Indian Napoleon’ ?
(a) Romila Thapar
(b) V. Smith Naples
(c) Saletore
(d) Sima Qian

Ans. (b)

Who was the first person to defeat Muhammad Ali during his professional career?
(a) Sonny Liston
(b) Joe Frazier
(c) George Foreman
(d) Mike Tyson

Ans. (b)

To which country Galileo Galilei belonged?
(a) Germany
(b) England
(c) Italy
(d) Holland

Ans. (c)

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