Since the beginning of time, many influential people around the world have made a difference in society, culture and science in meaningful ways. Many of these icons are world leaders, scientists, philosophers, artists, writers, musicians, pioneers and even everyday people that managed to make their mark on history.
While Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle felt that the study of famous figures is a key to understanding history, English philosopher Herbert Spencer was of the belief that historical individuals were of little importance. Irrespective of the philosophical debates on the subject, it cannot be denied that studying about the famous men and women in world history is truly an enriching experience.
This quiz is for the history buffs, those who love the act of learning so much that it transcends subject matter. Of course, acing a quiz like this won't come easy. Are you ready to take your brain over the hurdles?
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Only History Buffs Can Identify 50 Legendary People Quiz Questions
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Ulysses S. Grant
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John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
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Edith Cowan
Mother Teresa
Dranafile Bojaxhiu
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Gabriela Mistral
Frida Kahlo
María Izquierdo
Carmen Miranda
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Queen Elizabeth II
Agatha Christie
Mary Ann Evans
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Charles Darwin
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Birutė Galdikas
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Franklin
Amy Johnson
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Miguel de Cervantes
William Wordsworth
Dante Alighieri
William Shakespeare
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Betty Ford
Margaret Thatcher
Mary Lou Munts
Margaret Chase Smith
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Johannes Kepler
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
René Descartes
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André Breton
Marcel Duchamp
René Magritte
Salvador Dalí
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Walt Disney
Wayne Allwine
Clarence Nash
Wilfred Jackson
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Buster Keaton
Rowan Atkinson
Charlie Chaplin
Louis Armstrong
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Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Rembrandt
Johannes Gutenberg
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Francis Uble
Alfred Russel Wallace
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Charles Darwin
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George VI
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
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Dalai Lama
Sher Bahadur Deuba
Thich Nhat Hanh
Madhav Kumar Nepal
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B. R. Ambedkar
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore
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Steve Biko
Desmond Tutu
Nelson Mandela
Dali Tambo
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Blanche of Castile
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Joan of Arc
Isabelle Romée
Who is this?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
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Sun Tzu
Deng Xiaoping
Mao Zedong
Confucius
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Maximilien Robespierre
Georges Danton
Alfred Dreyfus
Who is this?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frédéric Chopin
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Akhenaten
Bastet
Nefertiti
Hathor
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Hypatia
Cleopatra
Olympias
Artemisia
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Camille Pissarro
Henri Matisse
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
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Libertad Lamarque
Eva Perón
Isabel Martínez
Julie Covington
Who is this?
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
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Germaine Greer
Amelia Earhart
Grace Hopper
Margaret Sanger
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Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Cicero
Alexander the Great
Who is this?
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
William J. Clinton
Ronald Reagan
Who is this?
Bill Russell
Bobby Marshall
Pelé
Ronaldo
Who is this?
Billie Jean King
Pat Summitt
Gertrude Ederle
Nadia Comăneci
Who is this?
Edward VI
Henry VIII
Thomas Cromwell
Arthur, Prince of Wales
Who is this?
Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
Harriet Tubman
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Jackie Kennedy
Marilyn Monroe
Audrey Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
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James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
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Marie Curie
Lise Meitner
Katherine Johnson
Barbara McClintock
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Jefferson
Harry S. Truman
Who is this?
Joe Louis
Sugar Ray Leonard
Evander Holyfield
Muhammad Ali
Who is this?
Ella Fitzgerald
Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Blackwell
Who is this?
Susan B. Anthony
Helen Keller
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Laura Bridgman
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Charles Darwin
Galileo Galilei
Michael Faraday
Isaac Newton
Who is this?
Claude Debussy
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Liszt
Robert Schumann
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James Monroe
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who is this?
Madame de Pompadour
Marie Thérèse of France
Marie Antoinette
Anne Lister
Who is this?
Shōtoku Taishi
Genghis Khan
Mao Zedong
Attila the Hun
Who is this?
Malcolm X
Thomas Paine
Martin Luther King Jr.
Elijah Muhammad
Who is this?
Hank Aaron
Lou Gehrig
Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
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Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
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46 / 50 I wouldn`t have got many right if they didn`t have the answers there to pick from
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