Statistics for Famous People, Places, and Things Quiz

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Description	Famous Person/Thing	% Correct
The creator of Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	94%
The inventor of the Ford Model T Car	Henry Ford	88%
The first President of the United States	George Washington	84%
The wife of the first African-American president	Michelle Obama	83%
The author of the Harry Potter series	J.K. Rowling	81%
The first African-American President of the United States	Barack Obama	78%
The first man on the moon	Neil Armstrong	78%
The woman who refused to give up her seat	Rosa Parks	78%
The famous author of "The Diary of Anne Frank"	Anne Frank	77%
The painter of the "Mona Lisa"	Leonardo da Vinci	77%
The president during the Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	75%
The inventor of Apple products	Steve Jobs	75%
The inventor of the lightbulb	Thomas Alva Edison	75%
A scientist who discovered the three laws of physics	Isaac Newton	74%
He was a famous jazz musician who sang "What a Wonderful World"	Louis Armstrong	74%
A musician who was part of the Jackson 5	Michael Jackson	74%
The fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty	Queen Elizabeth	74%
An English band that consisted of Paul McCartney	The Beatles	74%
The playwright who wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hamlet"	William Shakespeare	74%
Creator of Microsoft	Bill Gates	72%
A famous actor who is famous for his martial arts fight against Chuck Norris	Bruce Lee	72%
A famous female scientist who died from too much radiation	Marie Curie	72%
"I have a dream . . ."	Martin Luther King Jr.	72%
The inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	71%
A famous man who stood for civil rights in India	Gandhi	71%
The creator of MARVEL	Stan Lee	71%
She was the wife of the president who served four terms	Eleanor Roosevelt	70%
A major character in the Bible who walked on water and was crucified	Jesus	70%
The two men who were the first to fly	The Wright Brothers	68%
The only president to serve four terms	Franklin Roosevelt	67%
A famous architect	Frank Lloyd Wright	67%
He was the first Catholic president, but was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald	John F. Kennedy	67%
The 26th President ofthe United States	Theodore Roosevelt	67%
A genius who discovered the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	65%
The wife of the president who was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald	Jacqueline Kennedy	65%
A famous Confederate general in the Civil War	Robert E. Lee	65%
The director of Jurassic Park and Jaws	Steven Spielberg	65%
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II	Winston Churchill	65%
The creator of the movie "Psycho"	Alfred Hitchcock	62%
The creator of Star Wars	George Lucas	62%
The author of "A Christmas Carol"	Charles Dickens	61%
The author of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"	Mark Twain	61%
Considered the greatest heavyweight in sport's history	Muhammad Ali	61%
The female pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean	Amelia Earhart	59%
The man who claims to have found America (Hint: Not Amerigo)	Christopher Columbus	59%
The best of all escape artists	Harry Houdini	59%
The longest reigning monarch in the UK history	Queen Victoria	59%
Where the president resides	White House	59%
A pirate who had black facial hair	Blackbeard	58%
A Spanish painter who is best known for his abstract paintings	Pablo Picasso	58%
A band who's lead singer is Mick Jagger	The Rolling Stones	58%
A female musician/actress who starred in "9 to 5"	Dolly Parton	57%
The author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"	Roald Dahl	57%
He is famous for his journey to the Galapagos Islands where he made a theory about evolution	Charles Darwin	55%
He was stabbed on the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	55%
The blind man who invented a way for blind people to communicate	Louis Braille	55%
A musician who wrote and sang an Oscar winning song from The Lion King	Elton John	54%
A woman who grew up blind and deaf	Helen Keller	52%
A famous American monument who was a gift from France	Statue of Liberty	52%
The Crocodile Hunter	Steve Irwin	52%
He flew a kite with a key in a lightning storm	Ben Franklin	51%
A princess and wife of Prince Charles	Princess Diana	51%
A composer who composed "The Magic Flute"	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	51%
An American artist who was the leading figure in pop art	Andy Warhol	49%
The famous baseball player who played for the New York Yankees	Babe Ruth	49%
A wall in China	Great Wall of China	49%
The creator of the delicious Hershey franchise	Milton Hershey	49%
The tallst mountain in the world	Mount Everest	49%
The famous African who was put in prison because of his civil rights actions	Nelson Mandela	49%
The third President of the United States	Thomas Jefferson	49%
An African American blind musician	Stevie Wonder	48%
The river that is home to the most famous rainforest in Brazil	Amazon	46%
The author of "The Cat in the Hat"	Dr. Seuss	46%
A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean	Panama Canal	46%
A music festival that happened in the 1960s	Woodstock	46%
A former first lady and Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton	45%
A building in India that has a reflecting pool in front of it	Taj Mahal	45%
The wife of the second President of the United States	Abigail Adams	43%
"Thank ya, thank ya very much"	Elvis Presley	43%
The man who found out that the planets revolve around the sun	Galileo	43%
The creator of the Muppets	Jim Henson	43%
A Roman Catholic Religious Sister who was a missionary in India	Mother Teresa	43%
An ancient city buried by the volcano Mt. Vesuvius	Pompeii	43%
Two brothers who are famous for their collection of fairy tales	The Brothers Grimm	43%
A mexican painter who is best known for her self portraits	Frida Kahlo	42%
The founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	42%
A monument in the badlands in South Dakota that has four presidents on it	Mount Rushmore	42%
A prison off the coast of San Francisco	Alcatraz	41%
When colonists in Boston threw bxes of tea into the Boston Harbor	Boston Tea Party	41%
When prospectors came from all over the country to get a mineral in California	Gold Rush	41%
A woman who pretended she was a woman in the army	Joan of Arc	41%
The President of the United States who liked jelly beans	Ronald Reagan	41%
She was a famous sharpshooter of the Wild West	Annie Oakley	39%
A runaway slave most famous for her work in the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman	39%
A circle of stones that no one knows why they are there	Stonehenge	39%
What two airplanes flew into on September 11, 2001	Twin Towers	39%
A famous painter of lilypads	Claude Monet	38%
A French researcher who invented scuba gear	Jacques Cousteau	38%
The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy	J.R.R. Tolkien	38%
The huge football championship game	Super Bowl	38%
A document that was signed by Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Ben Franklin, among others	Declaration of Independence	36%
Where immigrants came to become a citizen	Ellis Island	36%
A famous fort in Texas that was used in the Mexican-American War	Alamo	35%
A cluster of reefs off the coast of Australia	Great Barrier Reef	35%
An African American Olympic gold-medalist who competed at the berlin games in Germany	Jesse Owens	35%
When the Japanese bombed a place in Hawaii	Pearl Harbor	33%
Moe, Larry, and Curly	The Three Stooges	33%
The famous Union general during the Civil War	Ulysses S. Grant	33%
The beginning of World War II; the day of the Normandy landings	D-Day	32%
An author who wrote The Raven and The Pit and the Pendullum	Edgar Allen Poe	32%
The first person to circumnavigate the world	Ferdinand Magellan	32%
A huge blimp that burned down in a fiery crash	Hindenburg	32%
The star of I Love Lucy	Lucille Ball	32%
A Native American killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn	Sitting Bull	32%
She is famous for living with chimps	Jane Goodall	30%
The event that was nearly a decade long in the 1930s	Great Depression	29%
The founder of Ripley's Believe It Or Not	Robert Ripley	29%
A bridge that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan	Brooklyn Bridge	26%
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, bravest name in the land of the free . . ."	Davy Crockett	26%
The author of "Little House on the Prairie"	Laura Ingalls Wilder	26%
A female French leader who was beheaded during the French Revolution	Marie Antoinette	26%
The woman who sewed the American Flag	Betsy Ross	25%
A Roman monument that was home to gladiator battles	Colosseum	25%
What some slaves used to escape plantations, and Harriet Tubman was a part of it	Underground Railroad	25%
A 1930s comedic actor who was in a lot of silent films	Charlie Chaplin	23%
She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	Harriet Beecher Stowe	23%
A girl who was shot by the Taliban trying to get an education	Malala Yousafzai	23%
The event that had a dozen men and women hung in the 1600s	Salem Witch Trials	23%
The 28th President of the United States	Woodrow Wilson	23%
A monument in Arizona that you can walk over	Grand Canyon	22%
A hurricane that happened in New Orleans in 2005	Hurricane Katrina	22%
He planted apple trees in a lot of different places, all while wearing a pan on his head	Johnny Appleseed	22%
A popular pool game	Marco Polo	22%
"The British are coming! The British are coming!"	Paul Revere	22%
The first American woman in space	Sally Ride	22%
Monuments in Egypt	Great Pyramids	20%
When the champions of MLB play in October	World Series	20%
A group of waterfalls in between the USA and Canada	Niagra Falls	19%
She helped Lewis and Clarkon their huge expedition	Sacagawea	19%
A famous woman who stod for women rights in America	Susan B. Anthony	19%
A famous NHL player	Wayne Gretzky	19%
A leader who took over most of the Middle East	Alexander the Great	16%
A New York Yankees player who recently retired	Derek Jeter	16%
The first african American in MLB	Jackie Robinson	16%
The place that is home to the statue of Athena	Parthenon	16%
They happened in Beijing, London, and Rio, for example	Summer Olympics	16%
Founder of the Red Cross	Clara Barton	14%
The most famous abolitionist during the Civil War	Frederick Douglas	14%
A female African American poet	Maya Angelou	14%
An American singer-songwriter, artist, and writer	Bob Dylan	13%
An American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who's actions mad him one of the first folk heroes	Daniel Boone	13%
The Ancient Egyptian king who ruled when he was just a boy	King Tut	13%
The turning point of the Civil War	Battle of Gettysburg	12%
The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series	Jeff Kinney	12%
The creator of most famous board games	Milton Bradley	12%
An African American scientist who experimented with peanuts	George Washingotn Carver	10%
The first Latin-American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame	Roberto Clemente	10%
The author of "Where the Wild Things Are"	Maurice Sendak	9%
A natural disaster that demolished a Californian city on 1908	San Francisco Earthquake	6%
A famous race horse	Seabiscuit	6%
A civil rights leader who was born a slave	Sojourner Truth	6%
The first Latina Supreme Court Justice	Sonia Sotomayor	6%
The author of the Brer Rabbit stories	Beatrix Potter	4%
An American labor leader and civil rights activist	Cesar Chavez	4%
When the pilgrims came over to America and had a feast with the Native Americans	First Thanksgiving	4%
An expedition consisting of two men and one Native American who traveled across the country	Lewis and Clark Expedition	4%
A musician who was the focus of a song by Eric Church	Bruce Springsteen	3%
He made an expedition to Antarctica	Ernest Shackleton	3%
An American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist	Gloria Steinem	3%
The fire that was supposedly caused when a cow knocked a lantern onto a pile of hay	Great Chicago Fire	3%
A famous British cook and chef	Julia Child	3%
When the dinosaurs roamed the Earth	Age of the Dinosaurs	1%
A famous science fiction author	Jules Verne	1%
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech	March on Washington	1%
An American marine biologist and conservationist	Rachel Carson	1%
America's first major ballerina	Maria Tallchief	0%
When cowboys had long cattle drives in the Midwest	Wild West	0%