Famous People Quiz

Question 1

Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

Answer

Buzz Aldrin

Answer

John Glenn

Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 2

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Answer

Angela Merkel

Answer

Theresa May

Answer

Jacinda Ardern

Question 3

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer

Raphael

Answer

Donatello

Question 4

Which Shakespeare play features the character Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Answer

Macbeth

Answer

Othello

Answer

Romeo and Juliet

Question 5

Who painted "The Starry Night"?

Accepted Answer

Vincent van Gogh

Answer

Claude Monet

Answer

Salvador Dali

Answer

Rembrandt

Question 6

Which civil rights activist refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Answer

Harriet Tubman

Answer

Sojourner Truth

Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 7

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Amelia Earhart

Answer

Bessie Coleman

Answer

Sally Ride

Answer

Valentina Tereshkova

Question 8

Which South African leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming president in 1994?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

Answer

Desmond Tutu

Answer

Thabo Mbeki

Answer

Jacob Zuma

Question 9

Who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953?

Accepted Answer

Edmund Hillary

Answer

George Mallory

Answer

Reinhold Messner

Answer

Roald Amundsen

Question 10

Which Indian independence leader is best known for non-violent resistance?

Accepted Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

Answer

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer

Indira Gandhi

Answer

Subhas Chandra Bose

Famous People Quiz — Free Trivia Quiz

Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?