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1
Who wrote
“
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
”?
J. K. Rowling
Charlotte Brontë
Virginia Wolf
Jane Austen
2
Confucius was a philosopher from __________.
Russia
Japan
China
Korea
3
Who created the fictional character
Sherlock Holmes
?
Agatha Christie
George Orwell
D. H. Lawrence
Arthur Conan Doyle
4
The first U.S. president was _________
John Adams
Barack Obama
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
5
Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Moses
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Augustus
6
Which of these was a philosopher during the Renaissance period?
Erasmus
Jean-PaulSartre
CharlesDarwin
KarlPopper
7
Albert Einstein was born in __________.
Italy
Holland
Austria
Germany
8
Frank Sinatra was a famous American __________.
Baseball player
Singer
Scientist
Politician
9
Who is considered "the King of Rock and Roll"?
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
10
Which of the following people was "not" a composer?
Mozart
Vivaldi
Rembrandt
Beethoven
11
Romeo and Juliet was written by _________
Walt Whitman
Luís de Camões
Ernest Hemingway
William Shakespeare
12
Julius Cesar was a __________ general.
French
Romanian
Italian
Roman
13
The first man to walk on the moon was____________.
Neil Young
Michael Collins
Edwin Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
14
Who wrote
“
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
”?
Ian Fleming
John le Carré
Arthur C. Clarke
Mark Twain
15
The physicist and chemist Marie Curie was from__________.
Poland
Sweden
France
Denmark
16
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian _________.
inventor
scientist
general
psychiatrist
17
The first accurate thermometer was invented by _________
John Kay
Eli Whitney
John Logie Baird
Daniel Fahrenheit
18
Joan of Arc inspired French people to revolt against the___________.
Spanish
Portuguese
British
German
19
___________is the co-founder of the social networking website Facebook.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Homer Simpson
Steve Jobs
Charles Babbage
20
Th
e UK Prime Minister during World War II was_
____________.
WinstonChurchill
DavidCameron
Adolf Hitler
Tony Blair