Quiz  /  Famous People in History Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?

  • Hippocrene
  • Augustus
  • Hippocrates
  • Hesiod

  • 2. 
    In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born?

  • Russia
  • China
  • France
  • Germany

  • 3. 
    What was American abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s original name?

  • Araminta Ross
  • Harriet Jones
  • Anges Tubman
  • Chloe Abernathy

  • 4. 
    What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman?

  • Bernard Fall
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Winston Churchill
  • Ernie Pyle

  • 5. 
    What was T.E. Lawrence’s nickname?

  • Tom Thumb
  • Tom Swift
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • D.H. Lawrence

  • 6. 
    Who built the Golghar granary in Patna?

  • Winston Churchill
  • Robert Clive
  • John Garstin
  • Arthur Wellesley

  • 7. 
    For what was Beau Brummell known?

  • journalism
  • fashion
  • revolutionary politics
  • food

  • 8. 
    Which of these was not a well-known historian?

  • Arnold Toynbee
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Thucydides
  • David McCullough

  • 9. 
    Which of these was a philosopher during the Renaissance period?

  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Karl Popper
  • Charles Darwin
  • Erasmus

  • 10. 
    Which of these was not the first name of a Brontë sister?

  • Mary
  • Emily
  • Anne
  • Charlotte
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