QUIZ WHIZ
1.What was T.E. Lawrence’s nickname?
(A) Tom Swift
(B) Lawrence of Arabia
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D)Tom Thumb
2.Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
(A) Hippocrates
(B) Hippocrene
(C) Augustus
(D)Hesiod
3.What war correspondent reported on the Battle of Omdurman?
(A) Ernie Pyle
(B) Ernest Hemingway
(C) Bernard Fall
(D)Winston Churchill
4. The Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin was
(A) Alexander Fleming
(B) Albert Einstein
(C) Archimedes
(D) Aryabhatta
5. For what was Beau Brummell known?
(A) Fashion
(B) Revolutionary politics
(C) Food
(D) Journalism
6. In what modern-day country was Karl Marx, the communist philosopher, born?
(A) France
(B) China
(C) Germany
(D) Russia
7. Which of these was a philosopher during the Renaissance period?
(A) Jean-Paul Sartre
(B) Erasmus
(C) Karl Popper
(D) Charles Darwin
8. Which of these was not the first name of a Brontë sister?
(A) Emily
(B) Mary
(C) Anne
(D) Charlotte
9. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit…
(A) Was a German Physicist
(B) Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
(C) Devised temperature scale
(D) All of the above
10. Who was the only 20th century US President to cause a bathtub to overflow just by getting into as he was so big?
(A) William McKinley
(B) Theodore Roosevelt
(C) William Howard Taft
(D) Woodrow Wilson
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