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Duplicate of Quiz Bowl-Famous Individuals
Duplicate of Quiz Bowl-Famous Individuals
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A #trivia quiz designed for #Quiz bowl
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1
Which member of the Black Hand shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Giuseppe Zangara
Sirhan Sirhan
Lynette "squeaky" Fromm
Gavrillo Princep
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Which explorer was mistaken for the god Quetzalcoatl and took over the Aztecs?
Francisco Pizarro
Hernan Cortes
Henry Hudson
Hernando De Soto
3
Who painted Guernica and The Old Guitarist?
Salvador Dali
Leonardo DaVinci
Edvard Munch
Pablo Picasso
4
Which explorer traveled through the American South and was the first to see the Mississippi?
Louis Jolliet
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
Henando De Soto
5
Who composed "Semper Fiedelis" and "Stars and Stripes Forever"?
Scott Joplin
Stephen Foster
John Phillips Sousa
Aaron Copland
6
What Nigerian author wrote Things Fall Apart?
Pearl S. Buck
Chinua Achebe
Toni Morrison
Ralph Ellison
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What musical period is J.S. Bach from?
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century
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Who composed 4'33'' and As Slow as Possible?
George Gershwin
Stephen Sondheim
Aaron Copland
John Cage
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Who invented the mechanical reaper?
John Deere
Elisha Otis
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
10
Who wrote the short story Battle Royale which became the first chapter of Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
Ralph Ellison
Pearl S. Buck
Jonathan Swift
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Which explorer discovered Australia, New Zealand, and the Hawaiian Islands?
James Cook
Hernando De Soto
Henry Hudson
Francisco Pizarro
12
Who invented the radio?
Thomas Edison
George Eastman
Robert Goddard
Guglielmo Marconi
13
Which explorer discovered the Incas, kidnapped their emperor, and then killed him?
Francisco Coronado
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando DeSoto
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Which English poet wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"?
Thomas Gray
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
Percy B. Shelley
15
Which President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?
Gerald Ford
William McKinley
John F. Kennedy
James Garfield
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Who invented the railroad airbrake?
Joseph Glidden
George Westinghouse
Charles Goodyear
Thomas Edison
17
Who painted "Waterlillies" and "Haystacks"?
Mary Cassatt
Salvador Dali
Claude Monet
Paul Gauguin
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Which President was nicknamed "Old Tippacanoe"?
Martin Van Buren
Theodore Roosevelt
John Tyler
William Henry Harrison