People Multiple Choice Quiz 1: multiple choice (Questions only)

1. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

1. A Marie Curie
2. B Lise Meitner
3. C Irène Joliot-Curie
4. D Bertha von Suttner

2. Who painted "The Night Watch"?

1. A Johannes Vermeer
2. B Rembrandt
3. C Frans Hals
4. D Peter Paul Rubens

3. Who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole?

1. A Robert Falcon Scott
2. B Ernest Shackleton
3. C Roald Amundsen
4. D Fridtjof Nansen

4. Who wrote the political treatise "The Prince"?

1. A Dante Alighieri
2. B Baldassare Castiglione
3. C Petrarch
4. D Niccolò Machiavelli

5. Which composer wrote "The Four Seasons"?

1. A Antonio Vivaldi
2. B Arcangelo Corelli
3. C Tomaso Albinoni
4. D Domenico Scarlatti

6. Who was the first woman in space?

1. A Svetlana Savitskaya
2. B Sally Ride
3. C Valentina Tereshkova
4. D Helen Sharman

7. Which architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York?

1. A Le Corbusier
2. B Frank Lloyd Wright
3. C Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
4. D Walter Gropius

8. Who invented dynamite?

1. A Werner von Siemens
2. B Alfred Krupp
3. C Rudolf Diesel
4. D Alfred Nobel

9. Who was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons?

1. A Constance Markievicz
2. B Nancy Astor
3. C Emmeline Pankhurst
4. D Margaret Bondfield

10. Who ran the first mile in under four minutes?

1. A Roger Bannister
2. B Chris Chataway
3. C Chris Brasher
4. D John Landy

11. Who wrote the novel "Brave New World"?

1. A George Orwell
2. B H.G. Wells
3. C Aldous Huxley
4. D Evelyn Waugh

12. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine, introduced in 1955?

1. A Albert Sabin
2. B Alexander Fleming
3. C Louis Pasteur
4. D Jonas Salk

13. Who founded the Mughal Empire in India?

1. A Babur
2. B Akbar
3. C Humayun
4. D Shah Jahan

14. Who invented the World Wide Web?

1. A Vint Cerf
2. B Marc Andreessen
3. C Tim Berners-Lee
4. D Bill Joy

15. Who sculpted "The Thinker"?

1. A Aristide Maillol
2. B Auguste Rodin
3. C Edgar Degas
4. D Constantin Brancusi

16. Which philosopher was the tutor of Alexander the Great?

1. A Plato
2. B Socrates
3. C Diogenes
4. D Aristotle

17. Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?

1. A Dag Hammarskjöld
2. B Trygve Lie
3. C U Thant
4. D Kurt Waldheim

18. Who published the first widely recognised periodic table of the elements, in 1869?

1. A Dmitri Mendeleev
2. B Antoine Lavoisier
3. C John Dalton
4. D Jöns Jacob Berzelius

19. Who was Queen Victoria's first prime minister?

1. A Sir Robert Peel
2. B Lord Palmerston
3. C Lord Melbourne
4. D The Duke of Wellington

20. Who was the first winner of football's Ballon d'Or, in 1956?

1. A Alfredo Di Stéfano
2. B Ferenc Puskás
3. C Raymond Kopa
4. D Stanley Matthews