Important People

Question 1

Samuel F.B. Morse

Answer 1

Invented the telegraph; Morse code

Question 2

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 2

Rivalry with Tesla regarding patent for the Radio

Question 3

Thomas Edison

Answer 3

Invented the light bulb, Phonograph and motion camera

Question 4

The Picts

Answer 4

The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods

Question 5

Sumerians

Answer 5

The Sumerians were the very first people to settle into Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 4800 BC marking the emergence of the first human civilization.

Question 6

Perceval

Answer 6

Main character in The Story of the Grail (French) where Perceval sought the Holy Grail

Question 7

Lazarus

Answer 7

Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days, is the subject of a prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death

Question 8

Karl Marx

Answer 8

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.

Wrote the political treatise “Das Kapital”

Question 9

Alexis De Tocqueville

Answer 9

was a French diplomat, political scientist, and historian

Wrote the political treatise “Democracy in America”

Question 10

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Answer 10

was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style

Question 11

Georges-Pierre Seurat

Answer 11

was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism

Question 12

Aristotle

Answer 12

Greek philosopher

Question 13

Archemedes

Answer 13

Greek mathmatician

Question 14

Hồ Chí Minh

Answer 14

was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader

Question 15

Hirohito

Answer 15

was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession

Question 16

Benvenuto Cellini

Answer 16

was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism

Question 17

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

Answer 17

was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields, including number theory

Question 18

Lao-tzu

Answer 18

was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions

Question 19

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Answer 19

was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history

Question 20

John Stuart Mill

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was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy.

Question 21

Thomas Hobbes

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in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,[2] was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy

Question 22

John Jacques Rousseau

Answer 22

from France

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 23

Mozart

Answer 23

was a composer from Austria

The Marriage of Figaro

Question 24

Tchaikovsky

Answer 24

was a composer from

The Nutcracker

Question 25

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 25

was a composer from Italy

composed Four Seasons

Question 26

Johann Straus

Answer 26

was a composer from Austria

Tritsch-Tratsch Polks

Question 27

Joseph Maurice Ravel

Answer 27

was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term

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