Free Quiz Questions about Famous People

1. During the 20th century was this guy a leader of America, Russia, or Britain?
   

   Russia (its USSR premier Nikita Khrushchev)

2. Who is this American president?
   

   Abraham Lincoln

3. Who is this famous woman, born 1755 and died 1793?
   

   Marie Antoinette

4. This statue is in Berlin but what are these guys famous for? Are they astronomers, chemists or economists?
   

   Economists (its Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

5. Who are these two famous leaders?
   

   Queen Victoria and Benjamin Disraeli

6. What name connects this sprinter and a British musical hippy?
   

   Donovan (sprinter is Donovan Bailey and the musician is simply 'Donovan')

7. How did this Russian woman become world famous in 1963?
   

   She became the first woman in space (Valentina Tereschkova)

8. This was the first bloke to fly solo across the Atlantic but what was his name?
   

   Charles Linbergh

9. That guy is one of Britain’s number one scientists of all time. Who is he?
   

   Isaac Newton

10. That guy is one of Britain’s number one scientists of all time. Who is he?
    

    Isaac Newton

11. It's the first guy to fly solo across the Atlantic - what's his name?
    

    Charles Linbergh

12. What did this guy help to invent: TV, aeroplanes or LSD?
    

    Aeroplanes (its Wilbur Wright)

13. Who are the two people in the religious painting?
    

    Judas and Jesus

14. What is the name and number of this Pope?
    

    Benedict 16th

15. Who came up with this famous scientific formula: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton or Leonardo da Vinci?
    

    Isaac Newton (its his Second Law of Motion)

16. These scientists are called Watson and Crick. What are they demonstrating in their lab: Penicillin, DNA, or the Nuclear Bomb?
    

    DNA

17. Who is this ancient Greek scientist, best known for inventing the screw pump and doing maths with spheres and cylinders?
    

    Archimedes