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Quiz Bowl-Famous Individuals
Quiz Bowl-Famous Individuals
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A #trivia quiz designed for #Quiz bowl
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1
Which President was nicknamed "Old Tippacanoe"?
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Theodore Roosevelt
Martin Van Buren
2
Who composed "Semper Fiedelis" and "Stars and Stripes Forever"?
Aaron Copland
Scott Joplin
John Phillips Sousa
Stephen Foster
3
Which explorer discovered Australia, New Zealand, and the Hawaiian Islands?
Henry Hudson
Hernando De Soto
Francisco Pizarro
James Cook
4
What musical period is J.S. Bach from?
Baroque
Classical
20th Century
Romantic
5
Who painted Guernica and The Old Guitarist?
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
Leonardo DaVinci
Edvard Munch
6
Which explorer discovered the Incas, kidnapped their emperor, and then killed him?
Francisco Coronado
Christopher Columbus
Hernando DeSoto
Francisco Pizarro
7
Who painted "Waterlillies" and "Haystacks"?
Paul Gauguin
Salvador Dali
Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt
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Who invented the railroad airbrake?
Joseph Glidden
George Westinghouse
Charles Goodyear
Thomas Edison
9
Which explorer traveled through the American South and was the first to see the Mississippi?
Jacques Cartier
Louis Jolliet
Henando De Soto
Henry Hudson
10
Which explorer was mistaken for the god Quetzalcoatl and took over the Aztecs?
Hernando De Soto
Hernan Cortes
Henry Hudson
Francisco Pizarro
11
What Nigerian author wrote Things Fall Apart?
Ralph Ellison
Chinua Achebe
Toni Morrison
Pearl S. Buck
12
Which English poet wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"?
Percy B. Shelley
William Shakespeare
Thomas Gray
William Wordsworth
13
Who wrote the short story Battle Royale which became the first chapter of Invisible Man
Jonathan Swift
Ralph Ellison
Pearl S. Buck
H.G. Wells
14
Who invented the radio?
Thomas Edison
George Eastman
Robert Goddard
Guglielmo Marconi
15
Who composed 4'33'' and As Slow as Possible?
George Gershwin
Stephen Sondheim
John Cage
Aaron Copland
16
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Elisha Otis
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Eli Whitney
17
Which President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?
William McKinley
James Garfield
Gerald Ford
John F. Kennedy
18
Which member of the Black Hand shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Sirhan Sirhan
Gavrillo Princep
Lynette "squeaky" Fromm
Giuseppe Zangara
