Big names - Little facts

Test your knowledge on the biggest names in history, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Virginia Wolfe. Try Queendom's "Big Names - Little Facts" quiz!

1.	In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was:

The first black man to have won it

The youngest man to have won it

The first American to have won it

The last man to have won it

I don't know

2.	Who was the fortieth president of the United States?

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Bill Clinton

I don't know

3.	What term did Winston Churchill use to refer to his bouts of depression?

Ornery horse

The blues

Melancholia

Black dog

I don't know

4.	Who was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier's second husband?

Ingmar Bergman

Arthur Miller

Aristotle Onnassis

Frank Sinatra

I don't know

5.	During World War I, Mati Hara was employed as a dancer, courtisan and:

Spy

Sergeant-General

Photographer

Nurse

I don't know

6.	Which of the following famous people was NOT missing at least a portion of one finger?

Jerry Garcia

Boris Yeltsin

Fidel Castro

Buster Keaton

I don't know

7.	Who is portrayed on the American one-hundred dollar bill?

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

U.S. Grant

I don't know

8.	Where was Harry Houdini born?

Budapest, Hungary

Wisconsin, U.S.A.

London, England

Athens, Greece

I don't know

9.	How did Virginia Wolfe die in 1941?

She contracted malaria while touring Africa

She died of a heart attack

She was killed by a tour bus

She drowned herself

I don't know

10.	Who said, "Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock"?

Winston Churchill

Gertrude Stein

Pope John Paul II

Pablo Picasso

I don't know

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