BIOGRAPHIES quiz
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What is the name of the person in the photograph?
How many years did Margaret Thatcher serve as Prime Minister?
You can be off by 1.
11
Was Indira Gandhi the daughter of Mahatma Gandhi?
- No
- Yes
Indira was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She took the name Gandhi after marrying Feroze Gandhi, who was not related to the Mahatma.
How many US presidents have been assassinated since the Second World War?
1
It was John F. Kennedy.
In which year did Diana, Princess of Wales, die?
You can be off by one year.
1997
How many dwarves took part in the expedition in *The Hobbit*?
You can be off by 2.
13
How old was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
You can be off by 10.
35
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
In which century did the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe die?
XIX century
He lived from 1749 to 1832.
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
What was the revolutionary Che Guevara's profession?
Ernesto Guevara was born in Argentina and studied medicine in Buenos Aires. He was killed in 1967 in Bolivia, where he was trying to start a guerrilla war.
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
What was Maximilien Robespierre's profession?
In his native Arras he was known as a lawyer who defended the poor without charge. He later became leader of the Jacobins and died on the guillotine in 1794.
In which century did Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf), the Muslim liberator of Jerusalem, live?
XII century
He lived from 1138 to 1193.
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
In which century did the French scholar Blaise Pascal live?
XVII century
He lived from 1623 to 1662; physics owes Pascal’s law to him.
In which century did Erasmus of Rotterdam, the translator of the New Testament from Greek into Latin, die?
XVI century
He lived from 1466? to 1536.
In which present-day country was Mother Teresa of Calcutta born?
She was born in 1910 in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, into an Albanian family. Her real name was Anjezë Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
What is the name of the person in the photograph?
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