Trivia Quiz on Biography Part 3

1. Who is known as the 'father of the atomic bomb'

A) Albert Einstein

B) Enrico Fermi

C) Niels Bohr

D) Robert oppenheimer

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2. As whom was Jan Ludvik Hoch better known

A) Robert Plant

B) Rupert Murdoch

C) Peter Maxwell

D) Robert maxwell

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3. John Richie became famous under what name

A) Johnny Rotten

B) Johnny Ramone

C) Sid Vicious

D) Johnny Thunders

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4. Who WasThe First Male To Be Given The The Title Of "Man Of The Year" On Time Magazine

A) Albert Einstein

B) Winston Churchill

C) Charles Liindberg

D) Charles Lindbergh

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5. What nationality was Johnny Weismuller

A) American

B) Hungarian

C) Romanian

D) French

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6. In what year was Prince Harry born?

A) 1982

B) 1986

C) 1990

D) 1984

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7. In common: henry ford, adolf hitler, frank sinatra, orville and wilbur wright

A) They all completed high school

B) They all pursued careers in politics

C) Secondary school dropouts dropped out of school school drop out

D) They all dropped out of college

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8. What nationality is Yehudi Menuhin

A) American

B) British

C) French

D) German

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9. Give either of poet E.E.Cummin s' christian names. edward

A) Edward

B) Estlin

C) Elisha

D) Eliot

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10. Who was known as The King of Pop

A) Michael Jackson

B) Elvis Presley

C) Prince

D) Bruno Mars

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11. Who was known as the 'Lady of the Lamp'

A) Mary Seacole

B) Clara Barton

C) Dorothy Dix

D) Florence nightingale

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12. When did Baden Powell found the Boy Scout movement

A) 1905

B) 1906

C) 1908

D) 1907

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13. Fill in the blank: chang and eng were the most famous

A) pioneers

B) astronauts

C) authors

D) Siamese twins

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14. David John Moore Cornwell became famous as who

A) Ian Fleming

B) John Le Carre

C) George Orwell

D) Frederick Forsyth

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15. Joe Yule jr born 1920 became famous as who

A) Jerry Lewis

B) Bob Hope

C) Mickey Rooney

D) Dean Martin

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16. Who said "People only see what they are prepared to see"

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

B) Ralph W Emmerson

C) Oscar Wilde

D) Mark Twain

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17. Whose autobiography is called ' All of me'

A) Diana, Princess of Wales

B) Barbra Streisand

C) Barbara Windsor

D) Nelson Mandela

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18. Prosopography is the study of what

A) Careers

B) Geography

C) Economics

D) Genealogy

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19. Madame Tussard the waxwork founder was born in which city

A) Lyon

B) Paris

C) Strasbourg

D) Marseille

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20. What legume did George Washington Carver use as a basis for over 300 inventions

A) Soybeans

B) Chickpeas

C) Lentils

D) Peanuts

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21. Whose biography is entitled 'lady sings the blues'

A) Maya Angelou

B) Billie holliday

C) Aretha Franklin

D) Diana Ross

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22. Who is married to eddie van halen

A) Nina Dobrev

B) Tina Turner

C) Valerie bertanelli

D) Gwen Stefani

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23. In Which Country Was Cliff Richard Born

A) India

B) England

C) Australia

D) Canada

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24. Give Me Any Year In The Life Of Joan Of Arc

A) 1412-1431

B) 1399-1405

C) 1432-1440

D) 1400-1408

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25. Ariztid Olt was what early name used by a famed actor

A) Bela Lugosi

B) Archibald Leach

C) Norma Jeane Mortenson

D) Maurice Micklewhite

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26. Pal Hewson became more famous as who

A) The Edge

B) Adam Clayton

C) Larry Mullen Jr.

D) Bono - singer in U2

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27. What nationality is the singer Celine Dion

A) Canadian

B) American

C) French

D) British

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28. What was the real name of the actress, Gloria Swanson

A) Gloria May Josephine Svenson

B) Gloria May Svensson

C) Gloria may josephine svensson

D) Gloria May Josephine Swanson

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29. Who was kidnaped on the night of March 1, 1932

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Bruno Hauptmann

C) Charles Lindbergh

D) Howard Hughes

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30. Who killed jesse james

A) Frank James

B) John Dillinger

C) Robert ford

D) Bob Ford

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31. Graham bell His ship was the H.M.S. Beagle

A) Isaac Newton

B) Captain James Cook

C) Alexander Graham Bell

D) Charles darwin

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32. What U.S. president wrote 37 books

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Barack Obama

D) Theodore Roosevelt

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33. Which actor has been portrayed most on screen by other actors

A) Charlie Chaplain

B) Marlon Brando

C) Clark Gable

D) Humphrey Bogart

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34. Which women injured riding, eloped with a poet, dog called Flash

A) Mary Shelley

B) Jane Austen

C) Catherine the Great

D) Elizabeth Barret Browning

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35. What type of vehicle was Charles Rolls (Rolls_Royce) in when he died

A) Aeroplane

B) Car

C) Hot air balloon

D) Train

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36. What happened French President Fronsois Faure on dying 1899

A) Died in exile after a failed coup

B) Died during a naval battle

C) Died of a heart attack

D) Assassinated by a political rival

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37. Who wrote 'the dragons of eden'

A) Isaac Asimov

B) Stephen Hawking

C) Richard Dawkins

D) Carl Sagan

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38. What job did the pianist Paderewski hold in the newly created state of Poland

A) President of Poland

B) Minister of Culture

C) Minister of Finance

D) Prime minister

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39. Whose last words were "It's unbelievable"

A) Julius Caesar

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Marie Antoinette

D) Mata Hari

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40. Alfred Gerald Caplin is better known as this (first+last name)

A) Al Capone

B) Al Pacino

C) Al Caplin

D) Al capp

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41. Samuel Morse the inventor was originally what till he was 46

A) Landscape painter

B) Art dealer

C) Silversmith

D) Portrait Painter

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42. She died at 28 but her book on household management famous

A) Hannah Glasse

B) Delia Smith

C) Mrs Beeton

D) Nigella Lawson

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43. Ernest Hemmingway, Oscar Wilde, Ranier Maria Rilke - Common

A) They all wrote in the same language

B) They all won a Nobel Prize in Literature

C) Mothers made them Crossdress

D) They all died in the same city

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44. Who was jason lee's father

A) Bruce Lee

B) Brandon Lee

C) Lee Hoi-ching

D) Ip Man

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45. What was Napoleons mothers name

A) Laticia

B) Letitia

C) Maria

D) Theresa

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46. Who was albert einstein's father

A) Hermann einstein

B) Jakob Einstein

C) Max Einstein

D) Paul Einstein

E) Karl Einstein

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47. Capability Brown was a famous Landscape Gardener 1st name

A) Thomas

B) Lancelot

C) Edward

D) Henry

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48. Who was the shortest ever mature human

A) Chandra Bahadur Dangi

B) Junrey Balawing

C) Gul Mohammed

D) Khagendra Thapa Magar

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49. Actor ______ Nimoy

A) Aaron

B) Loren

C) Lennie

D) Leonard

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50. Alfred Schneider became famous as who

A) Jerry Lewis

B) Lenny Bruce

C) George Carlin

D) Richard Pryor

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