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Famous People from History 130423 is a selection of 10 questions. Famous People from History 130423 is the filename to differentiate it from other History quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Which merchant traveller first visited China in 1271?
A Marco Polo (or he may have made it all up – it was a long time ago)
2 For what were Pavlova, Nijinsky and Fonteyn all famous?
A Ballet dancing
3 Who was the first woman to fly the Atlantic single-handed?
A Amelia Earhart
4 Who was the first monarch of the House of Tudor?
A Henry VII (he was the one who he defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field and buried him under what became a Leeds carpark)
5 The infant son of which famous American aviator was kidnapped and murdered in March 1932?
A (Charles) Lindbergh
6 Who succeeded King William IV when he died in 1837?
A Queen Victoria
7 Who conquered the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953?
A (Sherpa) Tenzing Norgay
8 Who commanded the light brigade at the Battle of Balaclava?
A Lord Cardigan (responsible for one of the most famous and ill-fated events in British military history – the Charge of the Light Brigade)
9 Which Sioux tribesman led the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876?
A Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake)
10 Who gave the famous speech known as the Gettysburg Address, on 19th November 1863?
A Abraham Lincoln