"C" Historical People Trivia Quiz

Answer: James

Captain Cook was a British naval officer, explorer and navigator. He was the first man to cross the Antarctic Circle and surveyed the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and Australia. In 1779, he was clubbed to death in Hawaii.

Answer: Yes

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was prime minister during the Second World War. In 1953, Sir Winston received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1963, the United States of America made him an honorary citizen. He died in 1965.

Answer: China

Confucius (551-479 BC) is the European version of his name, which was K'ung Fu-tzu or Master K'ung. Confucianism is not a religion but a philosophy about how a person should live.

Answer: True

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in 1889 in England. In 1910, he went to America. From 1915, he made silent movies there. He is best remembered for his role as a tramp that wore baggy pants and a bowler hat. He died in 1977.

Silent movies were the first type of movies made. They had no sound and what people said was written on the bottom of the screen.

Answer: 19th Century (1800-1899)

Frederic Chopin was born in 1810 in Poland and died at 39 years old in 1849 from tuberculosis. He played his first public concert when he was eight. He wrote many pieces of music for the piano.

Answer: Native American Indian chief

Cochise was born around 1825 and was a Chirichua Apache. Cochise was regarded as a great warrior (using guerrilla warfare tactics) and an expert horseman. He fought mostly in Arizona and Mexico. Cochise agreed to stop fighting in 1872 and went to live on a reservation in Arizona. He died on 8th June 1874.

Answer: True

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was originally Polish but lived most of her life in France. She won her first Nobel Prize in 1903 (in physics) and again in 1911 (in chemistry). She and her husband discovered radium and researched the uses of radioactive elements.

Answer: Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great was born in 1729 and was a German princess. Her birth name was Sophie Fredericke Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1745 she married Grand Duke Peter of Holstein, who was the next heir to the Russian throne, and was crowned empress in 1762. Catherine the Great founded the first Russian school for girls and a medical college to provide public health care.

Answer: Writer

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and died in 1976 in England. She is renowned for her detective and mystery novels. Agatha Christie also wrote romantic novels but used the name of Mary Westmacott.

Answer: Queen

Cleopatra was the last Macedonian queen of Egypt. She ruled with a brother called Ptolemy XII and then later with another brother, Ptolemy XIII. It is believed that she killed herself by letting an asp bite her.

(Thanks to my daughter for helping me research and write this quiz)