How many of these famous historical people do you know?

This quiz was heavily inspired by an autobiographical dictionary I've been flipping through. It's filled with thousands of people who have all made a significant difference in our world. I'd like to learn about them, I thought making this would be a good revision tool as well as a fun pastime.

So! Let's see how well you do. You will be asked who did a certain thing, and then provided with five options, pick the right person's name, you score a point. Simples.

Created by: phoebepie
  1. Who was the Radical MP for Ipswich in 1880?
  2. Who beat Brian London in 1959 to gain the British heavy-weight title?
  3. Who wrote the poem Still I Rise?
  4. Who patented a transparent earthenware resembling porcelain, thus pioneering the english pottery industry?
  5. Who founded the Blaue Reiter Expressionist Group in Munich, 1911?
  6. Who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with George Whipple?
  7. Who was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war between 1861-1862?
  8. Who designed the churches of St John's, Westminster (1714-28) and St Paul's, Deptford (1712-30)?
  9. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932?
  10. Who is hailed as the 'creator of modern computing'?
  11. Who was assassinated in a palace coup instigated by Miura Goro?
  12. Who married Frank E Butler after beating him in a shooting match?
  13. Who momentously beat Bobby Riggs in a tennis match on the 20th of September 1973?
  14. Who invented Nitroglycerin in 1847?
  15. Who discovered penicillin?
  16. Who announced via radio address on the 3rd of September 1939 that Britain was at war with Germany?
  17. Who ran the first four-minute mile?
  18. Who was the first human to enter space?
  19. Who was the longest-serving US president?
  20. Who invented the World Wide Web?

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