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Identifications Trivia Quiz

This quiz will test your knowledge of famous people who did important stuff. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by RobertJohnson. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
RobertJohnson

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
80,388

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1546

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who wrote Frankenstein? Hint

Robert Bancroft

Charles Dickens

Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Question 2 of 10

2. There have been many different designs of the Italian flag through the years designed by different people. Who is the most well known of these designers?

Answer: (One Word - French invader)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which U.S. President was the first secular president of Princeton University? Hint

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

James Gardner

Calvin Coolidge

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which baseball player was known as the Yankee Clipper?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which artist had a "Blue Period" and a "Cubist Phase"? Hint

Paul Klee

Robert Rauschenberg

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who is considered to have thought up the modern heliocentric concept of the solar system? Hint

Leonardo da Vinci

Christopher Columbus

Ptolemy

Copernicus

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who had the vision that would be the birth of the Mormon Church?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which major religious figure ascended to heaven on the Dome of the Rock? Hint

Jesus

Mohammed

Buddha

Moses

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which United States President's children had a pet pony named Algonquin?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who discovered four moons of Jupiter? Hint

Galileo

Columbus

Copernicus

Leonardo da Vinci

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote Frankenstein?

Answer: Mary Shelley

She wrote the novel as a part of a contest.

2. There have been many different designs of the Italian flag through the years designed by different people. Who is the most well known of these designers?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

It's true. Ajaccio, the town in which Bonaparte was born, was part of France at the time but had been, until a year before his birth, part of the Republic of Genoa. Bonaparte's parents were Italian but their son grew up to become one of history's most famous Frenchmen.

3. Which U.S. President was the first secular president of Princeton University?

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

At that time, being a president of a major university was a logical jumping off point for a run for president.

4. Which baseball player was known as the Yankee Clipper?

Answer: Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio held the batting streak record for a long time.

5. Which artist had a "Blue Period" and a "Cubist Phase"?

Answer: Pablo Picasso

Some of his most beautiful and influential paintings came out of these phases.

6. Who is considered to have thought up the modern heliocentric concept of the solar system?

Answer: Copernicus

He is credited with this idea, although he entrusted the publication of his ideas to Rheticus, and never published them during his lifetime.

7. Who had the vision that would be the birth of the Mormon Church?

Answer: Joseph Smith

He received his vision in upstate New York, and led his followers in a journey that would eventually cross the desert to Utah. Joseph Smith himself did not complete the journey; his life came to an end when he was murdered by dissidents from his church in Illinois in 1844.

8. Which major religious figure ascended to heaven on the Dome of the Rock?

Answer: Mohammed

This is why the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is so revered by Muslims.

9. Which United States President's children had a pet pony named Algonquin?

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Once one of his sons walked it up the White House staircase to cheer up his sick brother.

10. Who discovered four moons of Jupiter?

Answer: Galileo

Galileo was the first to train a telescope on the sky, and he discovered four moons of Jupiter, which he incorrectly identified as planets.

Source: Author RobertJohnson

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