End of the Year Famous / Historical People

Question 1

He was the 1st human to journey into outer space in the Vostok spacecraft; April 1961

Accepted Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 2

He was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe

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Napoleon

Question 3

He made his film debut in Love Me Tender and is the "King of Rock and Roll"

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Elvis Presley

Question 4

He was aka the Red Baron, and was a German fighter pilot

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Manfred von Richthofen

Question 5

He was aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

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Mark Twain

Question 6

He was a King (Basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, tutored by the Aristotle

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Alexander the Great

Question 7

His scientific works include theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation.

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Stephen Hawking

Question 8

He commanded U.S. 7th Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of WW II

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George S. Patton

Question 9

She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales and died in 1997

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Question 10

He developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, & long-lasting, electric light bulb

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Thomas Edison

Question 11

He was a German-born theoretical physicist and developed the general theory of relativity.

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Albert Einstein

Question 12

He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO & product architect of Tesla

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Elon Musk

Question 13

He was the 16th president of the United States

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 14

He formulated laws of motion & universal gravitation & built 1st practical reflecting telescope

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Isaac Newton

Question 15

He was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis (Id, Ego, Superego)

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Sigmund Freud

Question 16

He co-founded Apple in 1976

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Steve Jobs

Question 17

He was the founder of the Mongol Empire

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Genghis Khan

Question 18

He single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, the computer that launched Apple

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Steve Wozniak

Question 19

He was a writer, historian and philosopher aka François-Marie Arouet, wrote Candide

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Voltaire

Question 20

He earned the title of "The First American"; 1st US Ambassador to France

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Benjamin Frankin

Question 21

He skipped 2 grades in high school, & entered college at the age of 15

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Martin Luther King Jr

Question 22

He discovered the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G)

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Alexander Fleming

Question 23

His assassination led directly to the First World War.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 24

He was a sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production (Model T)

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Henry Ford

Question 25

He formulated a model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 26

He created the Pieta, Statue of David, and painted the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo

Question 27

She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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Amelia Earhart

Question 28

He was the 26th president of the United States (drove Progressive Era)

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 29

He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic(1969-1977)

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Muammar Gaddafi

Question 30

His voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas (1492)

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Christopher Columbus

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