Historical Figures

Question 1

Simon Bolivar

Answer 1

South and Central American general. Liberated Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru from Spanish rule in the 19th century.

Question 2

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 2

British general and revolutionary who ruled as Lord Protector without a king during the mid-1600s

Question 3

Jefferson Davis

Answer 3

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Question 4

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 4

abolitionist

Question 5

Che Guevara

Answer 5

Communist revolutionary in South and Central America

Question 6

Henry VIII

Answer 6

British monarch who began the Church of England in the 16th century

Question 7

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 7

Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Bolshevik and Communist. First leader of the Soviet Union.

Question 8

Louis XIV

Answer 8

the “Sun King.” Height of French monarcy

Question 9

Louis XVI

Answer 9

French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution

Question 10

Mao Tse-Tung (or Zedong)

Answer 10

Chinese revolutionary who established Communism in mainland China.

Question 11

Napoleon

Answer 11

Ruled France and much of Europe following the French revolution.

Question 12

Carry Nation

Answer 12

Leader of the temperance movement

Question 13

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 13

French revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the French Revolution

Question 14

Adam Smith

Answer 14

British economist and author. Wrote The Wealth of Nations which outlines laissez-faire (free market) capitalism.

Question 15

Joseph Stalin

Answer 15

Soviet leader during World War II and the Cold War years