Statistics for Famous People, Places, and Things Quiz

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  • The average score is 72 of 177

Answer Stats

DescriptionFamous Person/Thing% Correct
The creator of Mickey MouseWalt Disney
94%
The inventor of the Ford Model T CarHenry Ford
88%
The first President of the United StatesGeorge Washington
84%
The wife of the first African-American presidentMichelle Obama
82%
The author of the Harry Potter seriesJ.K. Rowling
81%
The first African-American President of the United StatesBarack Obama
78%
The painter of the "Mona Lisa"Leonardo da Vinci
78%
The first man on the moonNeil Armstrong
78%
The woman who refused to give up her seatRosa Parks
78%
The president during the Civil WarAbraham Lincoln
76%
The famous author of "The Diary of Anne Frank"Anne Frank
76%
A scientist who discovered the three laws of physicsIsaac Newton
75%
The fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynastyQueen Elizabeth
75%
The inventor of Apple productsSteve Jobs
75%
The inventor of the lightbulbThomas Alva Edison
75%
Creator of MicrosoftBill Gates
74%
He was a famous jazz musician who sang "What a Wonderful World"Louis Armstrong
74%
A famous female scientist who died from too much radiationMarie Curie
74%
A musician who was part of the Jackson 5Michael Jackson
74%
An English band that consisted of Paul McCartneyThe Beatles
74%
The playwright who wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hamlet"William Shakespeare
74%
A famous actor who is famous for his martial arts fight against Chuck NorrisBruce Lee
72%
A famous man who stood for civil rights in IndiaGandhi
72%
"I have a dream . . ."Martin Luther King Jr.
72%
The inventor of the telephoneAlexander Graham Bell
71%
The creator of MARVELStan Lee
71%
She was the wife of the president who served four termsEleanor Roosevelt
69%
A major character in the Bible who walked on water and was crucifiedJesus
69%
The two men who were the first to flyThe Wright Brothers
68%
A genius who discovered the theory of relativityAlbert Einstein
66%
The only president to serve four termsFranklin Roosevelt
66%
A famous architectFrank Lloyd Wright
66%
He was the first Catholic president, but was assassinated by Lee Harvey OswaldJohn F. Kennedy
66%
The director of Jurassic Park and JawsSteven Spielberg
66%
The 26th President ofthe United StatesTheodore Roosevelt
66%
The wife of the president who was shot by Lee Harvey OswaldJacqueline Kennedy
65%
A famous Confederate general in the Civil WarRobert E. Lee
65%
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War IIWinston Churchill
65%
The creator of the movie "Psycho"Alfred Hitchcock
63%
The author of "A Christmas Carol"Charles Dickens
62%
The creator of Star WarsGeorge Lucas
62%
The female pilot who disappeared over the Pacific OceanAmelia Earhart
60%
The author of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"Mark Twain
60%
Considered the greatest heavyweight in sport's historyMuhammad Ali
60%
The longest reigning monarch in the UK historyQueen Victoria
60%
Where the president residesWhite House
60%
The man who claims to have found America (Hint: Not Amerigo)Christopher Columbus
59%
The best of all escape artistsHarry Houdini
59%
A Spanish painter who is best known for his abstract paintingsPablo Picasso
59%
A band who's lead singer is Mick JaggerThe Rolling Stones
59%
A pirate who had black facial hairBlackbeard
57%
The author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"Roald Dahl
57%
A female musician/actress who starred in "9 to 5"Dolly Parton
56%
He was stabbed on the Ides of MarchJulius Caesar
56%
He is famous for his journey to the Galapagos Islands where he made a theory about evolutionCharles Darwin
54%
The blind man who invented a way for blind people to communicateLouis Braille
54%
A musician who wrote and sang an Oscar winning song from The Lion KingElton John
53%
A woman who grew up blind and deafHelen Keller
53%
A famous American monument who was a gift from FranceStatue of Liberty
53%
A princess and wife of Prince CharlesPrincess Diana
51%
The Crocodile HunterSteve Irwin
51%
A composer who composed "The Magic Flute"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
51%
An American artist who was the leading figure in pop artAndy Warhol
50%
The famous baseball player who played for the New York YankeesBabe Ruth
50%
He flew a kite with a key in a lightning stormBen Franklin
50%
A wall in ChinaGreat Wall of China
50%
The tallst mountain in the worldMount Everest
50%
The creator of the delicious Hershey franchiseMilton Hershey
49%
The famous African who was put in prison because of his civil rights actionsNelson Mandela
49%
An African American blind musicianStevie Wonder
49%
The third President of the United StatesThomas Jefferson
49%
The river that is home to the most famous rainforest in BrazilAmazon
47%
A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific OceanPanama Canal
47%
A music festival that happened in the 1960sWoodstock
47%
The author of "The Cat in the Hat"Dr. Seuss
46%
A building in India that has a reflecting pool in front of itTaj Mahal
46%
The man who found out that the planets revolve around the sunGalileo
44%
A former first lady and Secretary of StateHillary Clinton
44%
A Roman Catholic Religious Sister who was a missionary in IndiaMother Teresa
44%
An ancient city buried by the volcano Mt. VesuviusPompeii
44%
The wife of the second President of the United StatesAbigail Adams
43%
"Thank ya, thank ya very much"Elvis Presley
43%
A mexican painter who is best known for her self portraitsFrida Kahlo
43%
The founder and Great Khan of the Mongol EmpireGenghis Khan
43%
The creator of the MuppetsJim Henson
43%
A monument in the badlands in South Dakota that has four presidents on itMount Rushmore
43%
Two brothers who are famous for their collection of fairy talesThe Brothers Grimm
43%
A prison off the coast of San FranciscoAlcatraz
41%
When colonists in Boston threw bxes of tea into the Boston HarborBoston Tea Party
41%
When prospectors came from all over the country to get a mineral in CaliforniaGold Rush
41%
A runaway slave most famous for her work in the Underground RailroadHarriet Tubman
40%
A woman who pretended she was a woman in the armyJoan of Arc
40%
The President of the United States who liked jelly beansRonald Reagan
40%
A circle of stones that no one knows why they are thereStonehenge
40%
What two airplanes flew into on September 11, 2001Twin Towers
40%
She was a famous sharpshooter of the Wild WestAnnie Oakley
38%
A famous painter of lilypadsClaude Monet
38%
A French researcher who invented scuba gearJacques Cousteau
38%
The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogyJ.R.R. Tolkien
38%
The huge football championship gameSuper Bowl
38%
A document that was signed by Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Ben Franklin, among othersDeclaration of Independence
37%
Where immigrants came to become a citizenEllis Island
37%
A famous fort in Texas that was used in the Mexican-American WarAlamo
35%
A cluster of reefs off the coast of AustraliaGreat Barrier Reef
35%
An African American Olympic gold-medalist who competed at the berlin games in GermanyJesse Owens
35%
When the Japanese bombed a place in HawaiiPearl Harbor
34%
The beginning of World War II; the day of the Normandy landingsD-Day
32%
An author who wrote The Raven and The Pit and the PendullumEdgar Allen Poe
32%
The first person to circumnavigate the worldFerdinand Magellan
32%
A huge blimp that burned down in a fiery crashHindenburg
32%
The star of I Love LucyLucille Ball
32%
Moe, Larry, and CurlyThe Three Stooges
32%
The famous Union general during the Civil WarUlysses S. Grant
32%
A Native American killed at the Battle of Little BighornSitting Bull
31%
The event that was nearly a decade long in the 1930sGreat Depression
29%
She is famous for living with chimpsJane Goodall
29%
The founder of Ripley's Believe It Or NotRobert Ripley
28%
A bridge that connects Brooklyn to ManhattanBrooklyn Bridge
26%
A female French leader who was beheaded during the French RevolutionMarie Antoinette
26%
A Roman monument that was home to gladiator battlesColosseum
25%
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, bravest name in the land of the free . . ."Davy Crockett
25%
The author of "Little House on the Prairie"Laura Ingalls Wilder
25%
What some slaves used to escape plantations, and Harriet Tubman was a part of itUnderground Railroad
25%
The woman who sewed the American FlagBetsy Ross
24%
A 1930s comedic actor who was in a lot of silent filmsCharlie Chaplin
24%
A girl who was shot by the Taliban trying to get an educationMalala Yousafzai
24%
The event that had a dozen men and women hung in the 1600sSalem Witch Trials
24%
The 28th President of the United StatesWoodrow Wilson
24%
A monument in Arizona that you can walk overGrand Canyon
22%
She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"Harriet Beecher Stowe
22%
A hurricane that happened in New Orleans in 2005Hurricane Katrina
22%
A popular pool gameMarco Polo
22%
The first American woman in spaceSally Ride
22%
Monuments in EgyptGreat Pyramids
21%
He planted apple trees in a lot of different places, all while wearing a pan on his headJohnny Appleseed
21%
"The British are coming! The British are coming!"Paul Revere
21%
When the champions of MLB play in OctoberWorld Series
21%
A group of waterfalls in between the USA and CanadaNiagra Falls
19%
She helped Lewis and Clarkon their huge expeditionSacagawea
19%
A famous woman who stod for women rights in AmericaSusan B. Anthony
19%
A famous NHL playerWayne Gretzky
19%
A leader who took over most of the Middle EastAlexander the Great
16%
A New York Yankees player who recently retiredDerek Jeter
16%
The place that is home to the statue of AthenaParthenon
16%
They happened in Beijing, London, and Rio, for exampleSummer Olympics
16%
The most famous abolitionist during the Civil WarFrederick Douglas
15%
The first african American in MLBJackie Robinson
15%
A female African American poetMaya Angelou
15%
An American singer-songwriter, artist, and writerBob Dylan
13%
Founder of the Red CrossClara Barton
13%
The turning point of the Civil WarBattle of Gettysburg
12%
An American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who's actions mad him one of the first folk heroesDaniel Boone
12%
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid seriesJeff Kinney
12%
The Ancient Egyptian king who ruled when he was just a boyKing Tut
12%
The creator of most famous board gamesMilton Bradley
12%
An African American scientist who experimented with peanutsGeorge Washingotn Carver
10%
The first Latin-American inducted into the Baseball Hall of FameRoberto Clemente
10%
The author of "Where the Wild Things Are"Maurice Sendak
9%
A natural disaster that demolished a Californian city on 1908San Francisco Earthquake
6%
A famous race horseSeabiscuit
6%
A civil rights leader who was born a slaveSojourner Truth
6%
The first Latina Supreme Court JusticeSonia Sotomayor
6%
The author of the Brer Rabbit storiesBeatrix Potter
4%
An American labor leader and civil rights activistCesar Chavez
4%
When the pilgrims came over to America and had a feast with the Native AmericansFirst Thanksgiving
4%
An expedition consisting of two men and one Native American who traveled across the countryLewis and Clark Expedition
4%
A musician who was the focus of a song by Eric ChurchBruce Springsteen
3%
He made an expedition to AntarcticaErnest Shackleton
3%
An American feminist, journalist, and social and political activistGloria Steinem
3%
The fire that was supposedly caused when a cow knocked a lantern onto a pile of hayGreat Chicago Fire
3%
A famous British cook and chefJulia Child
3%
When the dinosaurs roamed the EarthAge of the Dinosaurs
1%
A famous science fiction authorJules Verne
1%
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speechMarch on Washington
1%
An American marine biologist and conservationistRachel Carson
1%
America's first major ballerinaMaria Tallchief
0%
When cowboys had long cattle drives in the MidwestWild West
0%

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