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Most Influential People in History Quiz


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  1. Whose mother was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854?
  2. The honorific Mahatma was first applied to Gandhi in South Africa in 1914. What was Gandhi's real first name?
  3. Who described the U.S. as a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"?
  4. Which city is revered in Islam as the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
  5. Watching what, inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravitation?
  6. Which town became world-famous after the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flights just four miles to its south?
  7. In Matthew’s gospel, what did a man from Cyrene, named Simon, do for Jesus?
  8. Who made the first certain observations of Jupiter's moons in 1609?
  9. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in the early part of which decade?
  10. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of which month?
  11. George Washington was born in 1732 in which state?
  12. Who is famous for discovering and patenting the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery?
  13. Who created a bound set of drawings and writings known as The Codex Atlanticus?
  14. William Shakespeare is often called England's national poet and the "Bard" of where?
  15. What is the name of Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera?
  16. Often called 'the divine one', can you name the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive?
  17. Which Greek philosopher is credited with many mathematical and scientific discoveries and first proposed the idea that the Earth is a sphere?
  18. What's the first name of Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar?
  19. Nelson Mandela served as the president of which party from 1991 to 1997?
  20. Name the German craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press?
  21. Who was Alexander the Great tutored by until the age of 16?
  22. Charles Darwin made a five-year voyage from 1831 to 1836 on what ship ?
  23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood after being born in which city?
  24. Archimedes was an Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor from which ancient city in Sicily?
  25. Who in 1878 established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
  26. Siddhartha Gautama is most commonly referred to as Buddha. What does the word Buddha mean?
  27. Which Greek philosopher died in 399 BC after a trial in which he was sentenced to drink poison hemlock?
  28. Name one of the two elements discovered by Marie Curie?
  29. Can you name the Chinese philosopher who was born Kong Qiu?
  30. To which island was Napoleon exiled after his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig?


Answers



  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Mohandas
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Mecca
  5. The fall of an apple from a tree
  6. Kitty Hawk
  7. Carried his cross
  8. Galileo Galilei
  9. 1920s (1921)
  10. January
  11. Virginia
  12. Nikola Tesla
  13. Leonardo da Vinci
  14. Bard of Avon
  15. Fidelio
  16. Michelangelo
  17. Pythagoras
  18. Gaius
  19. African National Congress (ANC)
  20. Johannes Gutenberg
  21. Aristotle
  22. HMS Beagle
  23. Salzburg
  24. Syracuse
  25. Thomas Edison
  26. The awakened one
  27. Socrates
  28. Polonium and/or radium
  29. Confucius
  30. Elba