40 Historical People Quiz *

Bieber isn't on here?

Justin biebers not exactly the same as Washington, Homer and Shakespeare

Bieber is nothing

Agreed.

There are a lot of other accepted spellings of Lao-Tsu

Christianity is founded on a belief in Jesus as more than a historical figure, but he did not found the religion.

But if you're going to leave the question in, "Christ" should be an acceptable answer.

Paul is definitely the founder of Christianity as an institutionalized religion based on the purported works/teachings/life/philosophy of Christ. Jesus himself was a peace-and-love practitioner of Judaism. You could easily just change the question to make Jesus correct, though. "Central figure of Christianity" or something like that.

If it's CHRISTianity it was founded by CHRIST. Quizmaster has his/her facts straight.

@quizmeister jesus practiced judaism, but being born as the christ, he founded christianity. just because you start something doesn't mean you have to do it

@pseudonymous, Christianity is a religion. Jesus did not found a religion. He is the subject of the Christianity which was created as a religion that follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. It would be more accurate to label Paul as the founder, as he was the one who traveled around spreading the gospel and teaching others to follow Christ.

I think you should ban any player who is so obtuse as to question these answers, when it is perfectly clear to (nearly) all, what answer is required.

cphornaday- I know, right? Imagine people who spend their spare time on quiz sites being so pedantic!

How are we defining religion? Jesus set out the requirements for Christianity in his teaching, although he never referred to it as Christianity - obviously. I think Jesus is the right answer, but if we're going to get fussy, why St Paul? Why not St Peter, who is considered the first leader of the church? He was an apostle (given that Jesus designated apostles, I think he can reasonably be considered the founder of the religion) before Paul was. If Paul is the founder, then the believers who believed in the years before Paul's conversion didn't have a religion. Which all leads back to how we define religion. But really, anyone who doesn't get the answer right for this question because they kept entering St Paul, refusing to put Jesus because it's not the right answer, needs to chill out.

Um. St Paul? That was my first guess anyway.

Wow, can you imagine the responses if the answer had been Paul? This is an....uh...."amazing" group!

Jesus did not found a religion worshiping himself. He only sought spiritually enlightened reforms of Judaism. Christianity was a religion invented by his followers AFTER his death. At first it was just a radical sect of Judaism, but then St. Paul spread the faith to the world and redefined it as a new religion. So "St Paul" would be the correct answer, but I would also accept "the apostles" because they were the first to believe in the divinity of Christ. "jesus" is still wrong for this question.

Christianity was not founded until after Jesus was killed. He couldn't have found it!

Maybe it was God

I think, technically speaking, it's Paul. And some might consider even Peter if you consider that he was "the rock" that Jesus built his church.

Christianity is a religion based on the teaching Jesus preached/created. Therefore, he created the religion. Also, you can't have Christianity without Christ. All the other historical figures-St. Paul, Peter, etc.- are important but Christianity would still be a religion because of Jesus's teachings.

I agree, Christianity was not founded by the (quite possibly invented) person of Jesus. Jesus was Jewish and claimed to be the Jewish messiah, ushering in the end of days and god's kingdom. When that didn't happen.. the remnants of his messiah/apocalypse cult had to figure out something to do. Paul among others formed the religion that became Christianity. Just because they use "Christ" in the name doesn't mean anything. I mean, was Wendy's founded by Wendy? Or by Dave Thomas?

When you think Jesus you think Christianity and vice versa.

That makes him the perfect answer for a "name the first person you think of when you hear this word" quiz.

It's Napoleon Bonaparte. And Simon Bolivar is just for South America, and not even all of it, NOT the entire Latin America.

But so many people call the guy Napoleon and just drop the last name, so does it really matter that much?

I typed in Bonaparte so it matters if you're menopausal and suffering severe ability to recall basic facts!!

Lol. Majority of people don't know their Australian history.

I wish I knew less

Nice quiz!!!

Wasn´t Alexander Macedonian?

Alexander the Great was from Pella, in Macedonia - the state in Greece, not the country.

26/40. Amelia Earharth was on the tip of my tongue and I REALLY should've known Napoleon!

Ugh, I only missed one obvious one. I hate those brain freezes.

Quite an arbitrary list...worldly and broad minded...but definitely arbitrary.

everyone should stop critizing little details on the quizzes

While you are putting in quotes, shouldn't there be some around the "Inventor" of the light bulb? Either that, or you are going to have to add a whole bunch of acceptable names -- Humphry Davy to start.

100% first try. Nice quiz!

Got all but two! Yeah! Would you accept Guttenberg? I added an extra "T" cuz didn't know how to spell it. Good quiz.

This quiz was Laozi.

I spelled Gutenberg, Guttenberg by accident. Maybe you could accept that?

I second that!

How did a lot more people get "I have a dream" than "Protestant reformer"? You can't write Martin Luther King without Martin Luther.

36 of 40...i'll take it!

You should accept Lao Tse for Laozi.

Needs more time! at LEAST another minute

Alexander the Great was Macedonian, not Greek. Yes, the place of his birth is currently in the nation state we know as Greece, but during his lifetime he was from the kingdom of Macedonia, and was not considered part of the Greek city-states.

I think this is a fun quiz. Everyone who is criticizing the quiz needs to get over themselves or make a new quiz that they find acceptable.

Hear, hear.

100% first try, 1:33 to go!

why won't it accept 'amelia earheart' for amelia earhart?

Because that's not her name. The same way it won't accept Jezus for Jesus or Gandy for Ghandi, it's not his or her name. :| that's why...

Agreed....

Tried Lecter for Hannibal.

RIP Neil Armstrong, a real American hero.

really great quiz. I was expecting it to be all about the USA (looking at the 1st two questions) but i was pleasantly surprised. (I'm not american).

I wish to point out that there were three UK Prime Ministers in WWII: Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940, Winston Churchill 1940-1945 and Clement Attlee 1945-1951. A more accurate question would be "UK PM for most of WWII".

but did you put churchill first?

Many of these questions refer to the person best known for the clue given.

100% 1:38 to spare. Good quiz.

Laughing at myself because I spelt Lenin as Lennon.

what about einstein?

I was glad to see that Samuel Clemens was accepted for Mark Twain.

Imho at least four of the items on the list shouldn't be there (too much US presidents). Other are missing. Probably Copernicus (he proved heliocentrism), Ghengis Khan (ruled the biggest empire in humankind's history), Lech Walesa (sparked fall of communism). Just my 2c.

Wrong, the British Empire was the largest empire in human history. The British controlled 36.6 million km² in land mass, whereas the Mongol empire had 33.2 million km².

There are more British leaders on that list than American leaders. Just saying.

Missed 4 but got all the others in plenty of time!

Alexander the Great was Macedonian

@Vatharian: how is 3 Presidents on an American quiz site "too many?" Not only that, all the Presidents named are world famous: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are not exactly James K. Polk, James Buchanan, and Chester A. Arthur. Also, the British had Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Thatcher, and Churchill (besides others like Shakespeare and Darwin who were not leaders). Your opinion just seems anti-American for the sake of being anti-American, because ONLY someone who had a chip on their shoulder regarding the USA would begrudge Washington, Lincoln, and FDR being on a list such as this.

Colombus did NOT "discover" the America's, Leif Erikson of the Vikings did.

No, the people that migrated over from Russia during the ice age did.

No, you are both wrong, Columbus didn't discover America, he discovered the New World, as it says.

Relax, folks. The quiz is looking for the name most closely associated with the item or event. I got 100% with 3:01 left, and while I was perfectly aware that Jesus did not technically found Christianity, and Columbus did not technically discover America, I understood that those were the intended answers. Chill out.

But "discovered" was in quotes. You could say Christ "founded" Christianity, but he didn't found Christianity.

How about adding some mor U.S. presidents like teddy roosevelt, etc. Or sports figures such as Abner Doubleday (supposedly invented baseball) Dr. James Naismith (invented basketball), and the namesake of the Stanley Cup, Lord Stanley.

you should make another one of these quizzes

I think Alexander the Great was Macedonian not greek. Good Quiz though

21/40..run out of time..urgh!

Jesus did not found Christianity. He was a Jew his whole life. The first writings about him appeared decades after his death.

100% with 2:14 left. It wasn't that hard. People need to give it up on the Christianity question. Sure, St. Paul was arguably the person who founded Christianity as a distinct religion, as opposed to a Jewish cult, but are you really telling me that after you typed in "Paul" or "St. Paul" and it got rejected you didn't think for one second to try "Jesus"? At the risk of a bunch of people on the internet calling me a racist and a misogynist, the inclusion of some of these people doesn't make sense and is probably best explained by an attempt to create diversity where it doesn't naturally exist. History is largely dominated by men; especially Asian and European ones. I doubt if anyone 1000 years from now will know or care about Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, or Margaret Thatcher. In the grand scheme of things, they just aren't that important. Elizabeth I and Jane Austen, I'll give you though.

I'd have to disagree, at least on MLK. He was obviously a big part of the civil rights movement, and while it may sound kinda bad, the fact that he was assassinated makes a martyr out of him, and the world has a tendency to remember those. Other than that I have to mostly agree.

People need to give up on getting defensive/offended/whatever about people having an intelligent discussion regarding the wording of the Christianity question. Nobody for a second is suggesting that those of us who questioned whether Jesus founded Christianity didn't know immediately that he would be the correct answer and most of us I daresay would have typed "Jesus" rather than checking whether St Paul or anyone else might also work.

Spent almost 2 minutes thinking I'd spelt Confucius wrong. Lousy Laozi!

Confucius (founder of Confucianism and the downfall of American industry), Josef Stalin and Plato.

Edison didn't invent the lightbulb - Joseph Swan did.

I just thought I could score 100%... than this first graduating person thing cropped up!

Some of these people who dont have a 100% guess rate like Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, etc is just sad

evolution isn't real

sure it is.

lol evolution isn't real, you're funny

tse tung and ze dong are not accepted for Mao?

40/40. Nice, well balanced quiz. I guesses lao tse and it was accepted. Am surprised that so few knew Bolivar, and that more people knew about Cromwell than Bolivar and Cook

I typed in "Elizabeth 1" but it didn't accept it.

Yeah cuz i really know all these people...

Alexander the Great was Macedonian

"Light bulb inventor" was not Edison. He invented an economically viable light bulb, not the light bulb. "Founder of Christianity" was not Christ, it was The Apostle Paul.

Please be more forgiving on the spelling. Earheart and Shakespeare are difficult to spell correctly.

It would be nice to have more acceptions of emelia earheart.