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  • Who is this?
    Muhammad Ali
  • What is the name of this event?
    9/11, Attack on the Twin Towers
  • Which company invented the first cell phone?
    Apple
    Motorola
    Nokia
  • What is the name of this artist?
    Vincent van Gough
  • Which British Monarch changed the religion from Catholicism to Church of England and beheaded 2 of his wives?
    James the 6th
    William the Conqueror
    Henry the 8th
  • Which 3 countries made up the 'big 3' of the Allied forces who defeated Nazi Germay in WW2?
    UK, USA, Soviet Union
  • In 1436, Johannes Gutenberg invented the ....
    printing press
  • She wrote a famous journal during World War 2 as a teenager
    Rebecca Gratz
    Anne Frank
    Judy Garland
  • Who is this?
    Ho Chi Minh
  • Who is this famous Emperor of the Mongolian Empire? (hint: The Great Wall of China was built to keep him out)
    Genghis Khan
  • What is the name of this building built almost 2000 years ago in Italy?
    The Colosseum
    The Roman Ruins
    The Colossus
  • The first vaccine was invented in 1796 for
    Smallpox
    Monkeypox
    SARS
  • What does it mean if you call a person the GOAT?
    Greatest of All Time
    They sound like a goat
    They look like a goat
  • Which is the date & year of Vietnam Independence Day?
    2nd September 1945
  • Who controlled East Germany after World War II, until 1990?
    Soviet Union/ USSR (now Russia)
  • Which artist has the most Billboard number 1 hits in history?
    Beach boys
    Backstreet Boys
    Beetles
  • The French Revolution occurred in...
    1709
    1879
    1789
  • Who is this?
    Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Which author (person who writes books) became the first billionaire?
    JK Rowling
  • Who ruled Vietnam from 40 - 43AD?
    Hai Bà Trưng
  • Who is this?
    Ronaldo Nazario
  • In 1929, the world experienced a huge increase in poverty and joblessness called
    The Great Elevation
    The Great Depression
    The Great Competition
  • _______; Generation X; Millennial; Gen Z
    Baby Boomers
  • Marie Curie is known for
    Inventing the computer chip
    Finding new treatments for Cancer
    First person to fly around the world
  • Which American president is this?
    Joe Biden
  • Josephine Esther Mentzer founded which beauty company?
    L'Oreal
    Estee Lauder
    Revlon
  • What is it?
    The Berlin Wall
    The German Wall
    The Great Wall of China
  • Who was the American President between 1961-1963?
    John F. Kennedy
    Bill Clinton
    George W. Bush
  • When was bread first made?
    3,000 years ago
    300 years ago
    30,000 years ago
  • In 1939, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to...
    win an Oscar for a film
    win a Pulitzer Prize for a book
    win a Grammy for a song
  • His name & birthday?
    Jesus Christ, 25 December
  • Which philosopher said "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit"
    Marx
    Plato
    Aristotle
  • Who invented gunpowder in the 9th Century?
    the Germans
    the Chinese
    the Americans
  • Oprah Winfrey is a media entrepreneur and has a net worth of
    $25 billion
    $2.5 billion
    $25 million
  • Who is this?
    Walt Disney
  • When did people first land on the moon?
    1966
    1964
    1969
  • In 1928 Alexander Fleming invented....
    Penicillin
    Morphine
    Aspirin
  • Who is the longest serving monarch (King or Queen) in the UK?
    Queen Elizabeth II
  • Who is this?
    Nelson Mandela
  • Marilyn Monroe was an American
    singer
    actor
    model