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Notables of the 19th Century

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Introduction:
"This quiz deals with European and American people of note who were born in and lived entirely within the 19th Century (1801-1900). They may be from art, music, literature, royalty, crime, warfare or religion. Good Luck !"


1. Hungarian pianist, composer, romancer, and was one of Europe's first great celebrities. Women swooned at his performances and fought over the white gloves he tossed into the audience at the end of his performances.
    Antonin Dvorak
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Franz Liszt
    Bedrich Smetena


2. This Prussian prince was a instrumental force in the movement for unification of Germany. He served as chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890 and oversaw the rise of Germany as a powerful nationalistic state.
    Kaiser Wilhelm II
    Otto von Bismarck
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Hans von Buelow


3. This man was a British author and statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria. He was instrumental in the expansion of the British Empire.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    William Pitt, the younger
    William Pitt, the elder
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton


4. This man was also a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during Queen Victoria's reign. He became a Liberal and was responsible for many reforms in British government.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    William Gladstone
    James Clerk-Maxwell
    George Farquhar


5. This 19th century American woman was an author, social reformer and abolitionist. She was instrumental in shaping public opinion about slavery as a moral issue paving the way to the Civil War.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Clara Barton
    Julia Ward Howe
    Amelia Moore Nation


6. This American Civil War general commanded the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Ohio and, in another sense, is remembered for the close shaves he didn't have.
    George Meade
    Ambrose Burnside
    George Armstrong Custer
    George McClellan


7. French composer known primarily for his operas. One, 'Carmen' may be the most performed in history.
    Eric Satie
    Francois Couperin
    Claude Debussy
    Georges Bizet


8. Another French Composer, also known for his operas, but is well known for his lavishly orchestrated, romantic and powerful 'Symphonie Fantastique'
    Hector Berlioz
    Leo Delibes
    Maurice Ravel
    Camille Saint-Saens


9. This man of aristocratic origins became the Emperor of Mexico, perhaps the only emperor in the Western Hemisphere in modern days.
    Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
    Maximillian
    Benito Juarez
    Montezuma II


10. This man was a soldier, explorer, and politician. He blazed trails to the The Oregon Territories and California, served as one of the first two Senators from California, ran for president before the Civil War; and served as a general in command of the Western US during the Civil War.
    John Charles Fremont
    Meriwether Lewis
    Kit Carson
    Buffalo Bill Cody


11. British explorer and missionary in Africa, discovered and named Victoria falls, opposed the Portuguese slave trade in East Africa, died in Africa but is buried in Westminster Abbey.
    David Livingstone
    Sir Richard Burton
    Henry Stanley
    John Hanning Speke


12. A Dutch painter, now known for his revolutionary approach to painting, spent most of his adult life near poverty depending on his brother for support, sold only one painting during his life, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
    Paul Gauguin
    Toulouse-Lautrec
    Georges Seurat
    Vincent van Gogh


13. An American writer brought up as a Unitarian later became a prime exponent of Transcendentalism. He wrote prolifically about an intuitive personal relation between Man and God, and about intellectual and moral attitudes.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Henry David Thoreau
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nathaniel Hawthorne


14. This Southern sympathizing actor, a member of a famous family of actors of the time, committed a murder that shook the world.
    Edwin Thomas Booth
    Maurice Barrymore
    Junius Brutus Booth
    John Wilkes Booth


15. This French author is perhaps best known for his work 'La Dame aux Camelias' known in English as 'Camille' which served as the plot for Verdi's opera 'La Traviata'.
    Jean Henri Dunant
    Alexander Dumas, pere
    Alexander Dumas, fils
    George Du Maurier


16. This German political philosopher and activist and seminal writer was arguably the prime thinker behind a social and political movement which has influenced the world for more than a hundred years.
    John Adler
    Friedrich Engels
    Karl Marx
    Georg Hegel


17. This African-American was a former slave who became a militant force for abolitionism before the Civil War; and a promoter of African-American regiments during the Civil War; and a voice for racial equality after the Civil War.
    Stephen A. Douglas
    Gawin Douglas
    William O. Douglas
    Frederick Douglass


18. U.S. writer and physician. He taught anatomy and worked to prevent contagious diseases. As a writer, he is known for his 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' and poems such as 'The Chambered Nautilus'.
    James Russell Lowell
    William Vaughn Moody
    Oliver Wendel Holmes
    John Hunt Morgan


19. U.S. writer author of one of the best known American novels of the 19th century (or any other, for that matter). It is a 'whale' of a book.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Herman Melville
    Washington Irving
    Nathaniel Hawthorne


20. An American icon for 'Outlaw', this man was a 'raider' during the American Civil War, then robbed banks and trains, and was finally shot by one of his own compatriots.
    Jesse James
    Billy Bonney
    Cole Younger
    Ike Clanton


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