Historical Figures

Question 1

Simón Bolívar

Answer 1

1783-1830 AD

South/Central American General and liberator of Venezuela, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from Spanish rule.

Question 2

Fidel Castro

Answer 2

1926-

Cuban communist revolutionary and dictator.

Question 3

Winston Churchill

Answer 3

1874-1965 AD

British Prime Minister during WW2.

Question 4

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 4

1599-1658 AD

British General, member of Parliament, and revolutionary who ruled England in lieu of the King in the 1600’s.

Question 5

Jefferson Davis

Answer 5

1808-1889 AD

President of the Confederacy.

Question 6

Frederick Douglass

Answer 6

1817-1895 AD

African American abolitionist.

Question 7

Mahatma Gandhi

Answer 7

1869-1948 AD

Indian leader who helped India achieve independence through non-violent civil disobedience.

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 8

1805-1879 AD

An American abolitionist.

Question 9

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 9

1822-1885 AD

American President and General of the Union forces.

Question 10

Che Guevara

Answer 10

1928-1967 AD

Communist revolutionary in South/Central America.

Question 11

Henry Vlll

Answer 11

1491-1547 AD

British monarch who started the Anglican Church.

Question 12

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 12

1743-1826 AD

U.S. President and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 13

John F. Kennedy

Answer 13

1917-1963 AD

U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.

Question 14

Robert E. Lee

Answer 14

1807-1870 AD

Leader of the Confederate Army.

Question 15

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 15

1870-1924 AD

Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the first leader of the USSR.

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

1809-1865 AD

American president during the civil war.

Question 17

Louis XlV

Answer 17

1638-1715 AD

Known as the “Sun King” who ruled over the height of the French monarchy at Versailles.

Question 18

Louis XVl

Answer 18

1754-1793 AD

French King killed in the French Revolution.

Question 19

Mao Zedong

Answer 19

1893-1976 AD

Chinese revolutionary and leader.

Question 20

Karl Marx

Answer 20

1818-1883 AD

Philosopher who first discussed communism.

Question 21

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 21

1769-1821 AD

Emperor who ruled France and parts of Europe who took over after the Revolution.

Question 22

Carry Nation

Answer 22

1846-1911 AD

Leader of the temperance movement in America.

Question 23

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 23

1758-1794 AD

French Revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the Revolution.

Question 24

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 24

1882-1945 AD

U.S. President during WW2.

Question 25

Adam Smith

Answer 25

1723-1790 AD

British economist and author who wrote “The Wealth of Nations” about the free market system.

Question 26

Joseph Stalin

Answer 26

1879-1953 AD

Soviet leader during WW2 and the Cold War.

Question 27

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 27

1815-1902 AD

American leader of the women’s rights movement.

Question 28

Booker T. Washington

Answer 28

1856-1915 AD

African American spokesman and scholar.

Question 29

George Washington

Answer 29

1732-1799 AD

First U.S. President and commander of the colonial army.

Question 30

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 30

1820-1906 AD

American leader of women’s suffrage.