Can you name the famous person?

Phoebe Simcock, 30th Aug 2021
Tags: Life Quiz Culture Social Media

Questions 

1. I wrote 39 plays and 154 sonnets in my lifetime. I was known as the Bard of Avon 
2. I discovered penicillin from mould in 1928 and saved thousands of lives  
3. I was the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century   
4. I was the last king of England 
5. I adapted the pie chart and I was the founder of modern nursing  
6. I directed Jurassic Park and E.T The Extra Terrestrial 
7. I am the central figure of the world’s largest religion  
8. I lead the French Army to victory at the age of 18  
9. I am the first woman to be nominated for President of the United States by a major political party 
10. I created the world’s most famous mouse 
11. I have been credited for inventing the first practical telephone 
12. I organised the women’s Suffragette movement  
13. I was born in Athens and I have been credited as the founder of Western Philosophy  
14. I am a fashion designer responsible for bringing the punk movement into the mainstream 
15. I said ‘I have a dream’ in front of 250,000 people at the Lincoln memorial  
16. I painted Starry Night in 1889  
17. I wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility 
18. I was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean  
19. I lead the Norman-French army in the Battle of Hastings 
20. Neil Armstrong and I were the first two people on the moon  
21. I wrote the Lord of the Rings 
22. I sat outside the Swedish parliament every day for three weeks with a sign that said  ‘Skolstrejk för Klimatet’ 
23. I am the longest-lived and longest reigning British monarch
24. My diary gives great detail into the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague of London 
25. I was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize  
26. You probably learnt the rhyme about my six wives in History class 
27. I used an underground railroad to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people  
28. Born in 1981, I am regarded as one of the greatest female Tennis players of all time  
29. I am a saint who founded a charity that helps millions of vulnerable people all over the world  
30. I am a co-founder of Apple and one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios

Answers

1. Shakespeare  
2. Alexander Fleming 
3. Margaret Thatcher 
4. George VI 
5. Florence Nightingale  
6. Steven Spielberg  
7. Jesus Christ 
8. Joan of Arc  
9. Hilary Clinton 
10. Walt Disney 
11. Alexander Graham Bell  
12. Emmeline Pankhurst  
    
13. Socrates 
14. Vivienne Westwood 
15. Martin Luther King Jr. 
16. Vincent Van Gogh  
17. Jane Austen  
18. Amelia Earhart  
19. William the Conqueror 
20. Buzz Aldrin 
21. J.R.R Tolkien  
22. Greta Thunberg  
23. Queen Elizabeth II 
24. Samuel Pepys  
25. Marie Curie  
26. Henry VIII 
27. Harriet Tubman  
28. Serena Williams 
29. Mother Theresa 
30. Steve Jobs

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