Quiz Bowl-Famous Individuals

Question 1

What Norwegian playwright wrote A Doll's House?

Accepted Answer

Henrik Ibsen

Question 2

Which leader was assassinated by James Earl Ray?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 3

What Nigerian author wrote Things Fall Apart?

Accepted Answer

Chinua Achebe

Question 4

Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA with Watson?

Accepted Answer

Francis Crick

Question 5

Who created the printing press?

Accepted Answer

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 6

Who composed 4'33'' and As Slow as Possible?

Accepted Answer

John Cage

Question 7

Who painted Guernica and the Old Guitarist?

Accepted Answer

Pablo Picasso

Question 8

Which explorer discovered New Zealand and Australia?

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 9

Who created Coca-Cola?

Accepted Answer

John Pemberton

Question 10

Which psychologist discussed the id, ego, and superego?

Accepted Answer

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

Who composed Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid?

Accepted Answer

Aaron Copland

Question 12

Which President was shot and killed by Charles Guiteau?

Accepted Answer

James Garfield

Question 13

Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 14

Which explorer discovered the Inca, kidnapped their emperor, and then killed him?

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 15

Which explorer was mistaken as the god quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs and Montezuma?

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

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