People Multiple Choice Quiz 1 (Questions only)

1. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?A Marie CurieB Lise MeitnerC Irène Joliot-CurieD Bertha von Suttner

2. Who painted "The Night Watch"?A Johannes VermeerB RembrandtC Frans HalsD Peter Paul Rubens

3. Who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole?A Robert Falcon ScottB Ernest ShackletonC Roald AmundsenD Fridtjof Nansen

4. Who wrote the political treatise "The Prince"?A Dante AlighieriB Baldassare CastiglioneC PetrarchD Niccolò Machiavelli

5. Which composer wrote "The Four Seasons"?A Antonio VivaldiB Arcangelo CorelliC Tomaso AlbinoniD Domenico Scarlatti

6. Who was the first woman in space?A Svetlana SavitskayaB Sally RideC Valentina TereshkovaD Helen Sharman

7. Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York?A Le CorbusierB Frank Lloyd WrightC Ludwig Mies van der RoheD Walter Gropius

8. Who invented dynamite?A Werner von SiemensB Alfred KruppC Rudolf DieselD Alfred Nobel

9. Who was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons?A Constance MarkieviczB Nancy AstorC Emmeline PankhurstD Margaret Bondfield

10. Who ran the first mile in under four minutes?A Roger BannisterB Chris ChatawayC Chris BrasherD John Landy

11. Who wrote the novel "Brave New World"?A George OrwellB H.G. WellsC Aldous HuxleyD Evelyn Waugh

12. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine, introduced in 1955?A Albert SabinB Alexander FlemingC Louis PasteurD Jonas Salk

13. Who founded the Mughal Empire in India?A BaburB AkbarC HumayunD Shah Jahan

14. Who invented the World Wide Web?A Vint CerfB Marc AndreessenC Tim Berners-LeeD Bill Joy

15. Who sculpted "The Thinker"?A Aristide MaillolB Auguste RodinC Edgar DegasD Constantin Brancusi

16. Which philosopher was the tutor of Alexander the Great?A PlatoB SocratesC DiogenesD Aristotle

17. Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?A Dag HammarskjöldB Trygve LieC U ThantD Kurt Waldheim

18. Who published the first widely recognised periodic table of the elements, in 1869?A Dmitri MendeleevB Antoine LavoisierC John DaltonD Jöns Jacob Berzelius

19. Who was Queen Victoria's first prime minister?A Sir Robert PeelB Lord PalmerstonC Lord MelbourneD The Duke of Wellington

20. Who was the first winner of football's Ballon d'Or, in 1956?A Alfredo Di StéfanoB Ferenc PuskásC Raymond KopaD Stanley Matthews

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