History Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - Round 1 to 5

HISTORY Quiz

by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan

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Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - 1

1.       Who was commonly known as Fuhrer or Fuehrer?

2.       Who was commonly known as the Bard of Avon?

3.       Who was commonly known as Desert Fox?

4.       Who was commonly known as Gurudev?

5.       Who was commonly known as the Maid of Orleans?

6.       Who was commonly known as Maiden Queen?

7.       Who was commonly known as Netaji?

8.       Who was commonly known as Mark Twain?

9.       Who was commonly known as Little Corporal, Man of Destiny?

10.   Who was commonly known as the Tiger of Snows?

11.   Who was commonly known as G.B.S.?

12.   Who was commonly known as the Grand Old Man of Britain?

13.   Who was commonly known as the Nightingale of India?

14.   Who was commonly known as Father of English Poetry?

15.   Who was commonly known as Man of Peace?

16.   Who was commonly known as Lady with the Lamp?

17.   Who was commonly known as Iron Duke?

18.   Who was commonly known as King Maker?

19.   Who was commonly known as Bapu, Mahatma, and Father of the Nation?

Answer to Quiz on Famous in the World 1

1.       Adolf Hitler

2.       William Shakespeare 

3.       Gen. Erwin Rommel 

4.       Rabindranath Tagore  

5.       Joan of Arc 

6.       Queen Elizabeth I 

7.       Subhash Chandra Bose  

8.       Samuel Longhorn Clemens 

9.       Napoleon Bonaparte 

10.   Tenzin Norgay 

11.   Jawaharlal Nehru 

12.   William Edward Gladstone 

13.   Sarojini Naidu 

14.   Geoffrey Chaucer 

15.   Lal Bahadur Shastri 

16.   Florence Nightingale 

17.   Duke of Wellington 

18.   Earl of Warwick 

19.   M.K. Gandhi 

Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - 2

1.       Who was commonly known as II Duke?

2.       Who was commonly known as the Wizard of the North?

3.       Who was commonly known as Man of Blood and Iron, Iron Chancellor?

4.       Who was commonly known as the Founder of Bhutan?

5.       Who was commonly known as Father of Modern Bhutan?

6.       By what was T.E. Lawrence was famously known as?

7.       Name the spring in Australia with medicinal properties.

8.       Who was commonly known as Father of Medicine?

9.       Who was commonly known as Father of History?

10.   Name the personality referred to by The Little Corporal?

11.   Name ‘The First Lady of Laughter’?

12.   Name “The Laughing Philosopher”?

13.   Name ‘The Little Tramp’, the famous stage personalities?

14.   Name the sportsman who was called as ‘The Black Pearl’?

15.   Who was commonly known as the Frontier Gandhi?

16.   What is the name given to the big clock of the British Parliament building?

17.   Name an isolated island in the Mediterranean Sea.

18.   Where was Napoleon exiled in 1841?

19.   Name the bridge constructed by Lord Rama when he was to invade Lanka of Ravana?

20.   In which year was the Eiffel Tower built?

Answer to Quiz on Famous in the World 2

1.       Benito Mussolini 

2.       Sir Walter Scott 

3.       Otto von Bismarck 

4.       King Ugyen Wangchuck, Bhutan

5.       King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, Bhutan

6.       Lawrence of Arabia

7.       Alice Springs

8.       Greek Physician, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

9.       Greek Historian, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.)

10.   Napoleon Bonaparte

11.   Lucille Ball/ Lucy- comedienne in the popular “Lucy” serial

12.   Democritus

13.   Charlie Chaplin

14.   Pele

15.   Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

16.   Big Ben

17.   Elba

18.   Elba

19.   Adam’s Bridge

20.   1887-89

Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - 3

1.   Who built Eiffel Tower?

2.    What is the height of the Eiffel tower in Paris?

3.    Name the longest palaces in Spain.

4.   Who sponsored world's first international town near Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu?

5.  Name a lady who married Adolf Hitler on the 29^th April, 1945, and committed suicide with him the next day.

6.  Who became the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan?

7.  Name the British Queen who ruled for 60 years?

8. Name the first Japanese woman in the world to scale Mount Everest.

9. Name the three leaders who founded the Nonaligned Movement.

10.  Who is the founder of the first map of the known world?

11.  For how many years did Nelson Mandela stay in prison?

12.  Name the person to become the first journalist to go into space in 1990.

13.  Name the First woman to scale Mount Everest in 1984.

14.  Name the first Asian woman to sail around the world?

15.  Name the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice?

16.  Who is the Chinese leader famous for his “Little Red Book”? 

17.  Name the first film star to appear on a postage stamp in the world?

18.  Which French Peasant became “a heroine and a saint”?

19.  Who became the first woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?

20.  At the time of Julius Caesar’s death, who was his wife?

Answer to Quiz on Famous in the World 3

1.      Gustav Eiffel

2.      985 feet high

3.      Escorial

4.      UNESCO

5.      Eva Braun

6.      Benazir Bhutto

7.      Queen Victoria

8.      Junko Tabei

9.      Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia, President Nasser of U.A.R., and Jawaharlal Nehru of India

10.  Ptolemy (in 150 A.D.)

11.  27 years

12.  Toyohiro Akyama

13.  Bacchendri Pal

14.  Ujwala Patil

15.  Madame Marie Curie

16.  Mao Tse-Tung

17.  Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace of Monaco

18.  Joan of Arc

19.  Sirimavo Bandaranaike

20.  Calpurnia

Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - 4

1.      Name the Asian leader who was called as “the little frown saint”?

2.      Who is the first man to reach North Pole?

3.      What was the real name of Confucius?

4.      Which Greek cynic Philosopher lived in a tub?

5.      Name the great Tibetan leader sought refuge in India in 1959 and was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

6.      Name the General of World War II who was famously known as “The Desert Fox”?

7.      Name the only blind, deaf and dumb woman who achieved high distinction as a writer and scholar.

8.      Name the women who became Prime Minister of Britain.

9.      Who was the first woman to make a Solo Flight from England to Australia?

10.  In which year did Lady Agnes Baden-Powell start the Girl Guides Movement?

11.  Who was the first in Europe to take tobacco in a mixture of snuff?

12.  In which year The Kaiser described the English army as “contemptible”?

13.  In which year Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic?

14.  Name the scientist who stated that the man descended from the apes.

15.  Who was Benito Mussolini?

16.  Who was Joseph Stalin?

17.  Who violated The Munich Agreement by crossing the Czech border?

18.  When was the famous German Battleship ‘Pearl Harbor’ destroyed in the North Atlantic?

19.  When was Bangladesh born?

20.   Who commanded the Allied Forces at the Battle of Alamein?

Answer to Quiz on Famous in the World 4

1.      Mahatma Gandhi of India

2.      Robert Peary.

3.      Kung Fu-Tzu

4.      Diogenes

5.      The Dalai Lama

6.      General Rommel

7.      Helen Keller

8.      Margaret Thatcher

9.      Amy Johnson

10.  1910

11.  Catherine de Medici

12.  1914

13.  1928

14.  Charles Darwin

15.  Fascist dictator of Italy

16.  Russian Communist dictator

17.  Hitler

18.  May, 1941

19.  December 16, 1971

20.  Field-Marshal Montgomery 

Quiz on Famous in the World with Answers - 5

1.      When did Dwight D. Eisenhower become President of the U.S.A.? 

2.      What was Sheila Gujral famous for?

3.      What was Samantha Fox famous for?

4.      Who married Adolf Hitler on the 29^th April, 1945, and committed suicide with him on the next day?

5.      Name the woman who marked in the world of playback singing for films in India.

6.      Which famous artist was best known as Pablo Picasso?

7.      Name the famous scientist who was reputed to have stated the man descended from the apes.

8.      Name the famous man who spent 27 years in prison?

9.      Name the Chinese leader who was famous for his “Little Red Book”?

10.  Name the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice?

11.  What was Jean Jacques Rousseau famous for?

12.  What was David Niven famous for?

13.  Name the British Queen who ruled for over 60 years?

14.  Name the women who became Prime Minister of Pakistan.

15.  Name the women who became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

16.  Name the women who became Prime Minister of India.

17.  When did Emmeline Pankhurst organize the “Women’s Social and Political Union” in England?

18.  In which year Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi revolted against the British in India?

19.  Which famous Asian leader was called “the little frown saint”?

20.  What was the real name of Confucius?

21.  In what field did Tolstoy achieve fame?

22.  In what field did Edmund Hillary achieve fame?

23.  Why was Frederick Anton Mesmer Famous?

24.  What is the original name of Mother Teresa?

25.  Name the famous British Queen who led a rebellion against the Romans?

Answer to Quiz on Famous in the World 5

1.      1952.

2.      Painting

3.      Pop music

4.      Eva Braun

5.      Lata Mangeshkar

6.      Pablo Ruiz

7.      Charles Darwin

8.      Nelson Mandela

9.      Mao Tse-Tung

10.  Madame Marie Curie

11.  Education

12.  Acting in movies

13.  Queen Victoria

14.  Benazir Bhutto

15.  Sirimavo Bandaranaike

16.  Indra Gandhi

17.  1905

18.  1857

19.  Mahatma Gandhi

20.  K’ung Fu-Tzu

21.  Famous in Writing

22.  Famous in Mountaineering

23.  Because He was the first person in the world to use hypnotism to treat patient

24.  Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

25.  Boadicea