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People in History 110726 is a selection of 10 questions. People in History 110726 is the filename to differentiate it from other People 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 of King Henry VIII’s wives was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?
A Anne Boleyn
2 Which land did explorer Jacques Cartier claim for France in 1534?
A Canada
3 In which Indian city did Mother Teresa do her good works?
A Calcutta
4 What happened to British Prime Minister Spencer Percival on 11th May 1812?
A He was assassinated
5 Which American outlaw and legendary figure of the Wild West, was killed in 1882 by fellow gang member Bob Ford?
A Jesse James (Bob Ford shot James in the back of the head as they prepared to go on another robbery)
6 Which military and political leader said the famous phrase ‘An army marches on its stomach’?
A Napoleon (Bonaparte)
7 Who was the tyrant leader of the Khmer Rouge whose reign of terror killed some 3 million people in Cambodia in the 1970s?
A Pol Pot (for pedants, his real name was Saloth Sar [1925 – 1998])
8 Which French naval officer and underwater explorer invented the aqualung?
A Jacques Cousteau
9 Missionary David Livingstone disappeared in Africa in the 1860s; Henry Stanley led an expedition to find him. What was Stanley’s profession?
A Journalist (“Dr Livingstone I presume”)
10 Which explorer travelled in a ship called the Santa Maria?
A Christopher Columbus