WorksheetsH20 Key People
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 32mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
“The challenges of life cannot be "texting a few words", that prayer should be given pride of place over their internet "chats", and that God's memory was not a "hard disk" filled with files on everyone, but more of a compassionate heart that wants to help them "erase" evil. I was named Time Person of the Year in 2013 for trying to bring more attention to people living in poverty and people who are disabled. I am the most powerful man in the Catholic Church, who am I?
a)
Pope Benedict XVI
b)
Pope Francis I
c)
Pope John Paul II
d)
Pope John Paul I
2.
“Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.” "If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won't be the Europe we wished for". Who am I?
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
Neville Chamberlain
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Angela Merkel
3.
Once I learned to communicate I said “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt.” Who am I?
a)
Keller
b)
Mandela
c)
Mother Teresa
d)
Earhart
4.
My legacy includes ordering the dropping of 2 atomic bombs on Japan, who knew these weapons would be so precise in ending the World War II. I was instrumental in the USA creating the hydrogen bomb. Who am I?
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Kennedy
c)
Truman
d)
Reagan
5.
“I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.”
a)
Gandhi
b)
Gates
c)
Dr. King Jr.
d)
Trudeau
6.
I had a Superman Complex and altered photos of myself. One of my greatest achievements as the leader of Fascist Italy was defeating Ethiopia; for all of my leadership skills I was later captured, shot and later hung for my people to see;who am I?
a)
Hitler
b)
Mussolini
c)
Rommel
d)
Stalin
7.
“I fear we have just awoken the sleeping giant” was spoken after the shocking and successful invasion of Hawaii in 1941" I was the leader of my country at the time, Who Am I?
a)
Ho Chi Minh
b)
Zedong
c)
Hirohito
d)
Jinping
8.
My nickname is the Bulldog because of how I rallied my country to victory, and saved the World from Nazis rule during World War II. “If you are going through hell, keep going. “You asked: What is our aim! I can answer in one word Victory! Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be”. Who Am I?
a)
Chamberlain
b)
Churchill
c)
Clemenceau
d)
Roosevelt
9.
“If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. I created the internet. I recently spoke “We should build a world where I have control of my data and sell it to you. Users should have control, access to and ownership of their data.”
a)
Englert & Higgs
b)
Watson & Crick
c)
Tesla
d)
Berners-Lee
10.
I was the Supreme leader of Iran and became a champion of Islamic ideals. I lead the Iranian Revolution and supported the Iranian hostage crisis.
a)
Jinping
b)
Khrushchev
c)
Ayatollah Khomeini
d)
Rasputin
11.
I was the leader of the Soviet Union during the end of the Cold War. I spoke 2 key words that changed world history: “perestroika and “glasnost” and ultimately these 2 words helped to end the Cold War, but I think I am remembered more for the fact that I have a birth mark on my forehead. Who am I?
a)
Gorbachev
b)
Putin
c)
Khrushchev
d)
Nicholas II
12.
I think the secret to success is quite simple, “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. Who am I?
a)
Helu
b)
Kroc
c)
Ford
d)
Edison
13.
“When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.” Amazingly I never received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this vaccine. Who am I?
a)
Watson & Crick
b)
Edison
c)
Salk
d)
Einstein
14.
“Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” If this doesn’t work we will smoke’em out, smoke’em out, smoke’em out." To be honest I am not sure what I am saying sometimes. Who Am I?
a)
Reagan
b)
Nixon
c)
Kennedy
d)
Bush Jr.
15.
I was a revolutionary that stated “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” I brought Communism to the largest population in the world in 1947, but also was responsible for the largest genocide in world history, in which over 50 million people were killed, and my people worshipped me. Who am I?
a)
Ho Chi Minh
b)
Kim Jong-un
c)
Putin
d)
Zedong
16.
The discovery of the molecular structure of DNA which is the genetic blueprint of the human body, that’s all we accomplished; who am I?
a)
Watson & Crick
b)
Englert & Higgs
c)
Salk
d)
Franklin & Wilkins
17.
"I was the first person on the surface of the moon “but the landing was his biggest concern, "the unknowns were rampant," and "there were just a thousand things to worry about.” Once in the moon I most famously spoke “Once giant step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Who Am I?
a)
Earhart
b)
Armstrong
c)
Lindberg
d)
Hillary
18.
I survived the Bay of Pigs invasion where the CIA and Cuban exiles tried to assassinate me and then became the leader of Cuba, I was the longest serving Communist leader in 20th century history. Who Am I?
a)
Kennedy
b)
Rommel
c)
Stalin
d)
Castro
19.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. The important thing is not to stop questioning, curiosity has its own reason for existing. I had an IQ of 160 and created the theory of relativity. In 2011 a piece of my brain was put on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Who am I?
a)
Edison
b)
Einstein
c)
Jobs
d)
Gates
20.
“I think it’s fair to say that the personal computer has become the most empowering tool we have ever created. The tool of communication, the tool of creativity.” “I believe if you show people the problems and you show them solutions they will be moved to act.” Who am I?
a)
Tesla
b)
Jobs
c)
Ford
d)
Gates
21.
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation."
a)
Ferdinand
b)
Dr. King Jr.
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Parks
22.
I was a famous German General in World War II, I was known as the “Desert Fox”; “Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.” Who am I?
a)
Hitler
b)
Roosevelt
c)
Rommel
d)
von Manstein
23.
"We will chase terrorists everywhere. If in an airport, then in the airport. So if we find them in the toilet, excuse me, we’ll waste them in the outhouse.” I was a member of the Soviet KGB, then I became the leader of the KGB, then I was elected President of Russia, who am I?
a)
Putin
b)
Rasputin
c)
Nicholas II
d)
Rasputin
24.
I was the head of the nuclear Manhattan project and am known as the father of the atomic bomb; “After creating the atomic bomb I believed “I am death the destroyer of worlds”. Who am I?
a)
Wilson
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Oppenheimer
25.
We are…here to see that every people in the world shall choose its own masters and govern its own destinies”. This was spoken during the 1918 peace talks and treaty negotiations by the man who created the idea for the League of Nations. Who am I?
a)
Wilson
b)
Roosevelt
c)
Ban Ki Moon
d)
Clemenceau
26.
I was the first lady of the Civil Rights movement in the USA, I refused to give up my seat the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama; “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.” Who am I?
a)
Earhart
b)
Parks
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Mother Teresa
27.
I was the 3rd richest man in recorded history; I famously spoke “all around me is cowardice and deceit.” I was the last ruler of Absolutist Russia then my family and I were murdered, who am I?
a)
Ivan "the Terrible"
b)
Nicholas II
c)
Alexander I
d)
Peter "the Great"
28.
I was the leader of one of the BIG 3 countries after World War One and I wanted to severely punish Germany after World War One, I also hosted the Peace Conference at the Palace of Versailles. Who Am I?
a)
Atlee
b)
Wilson
c)
Lloyd George
d)
Clemenceau
29.
I once said, “You can make a positive out of a negative if you work hard enough”. Our motto is Satisfaction Guaranteed. I was the founder of Walmart.
a)
Kroc
b)
Walton
c)
Ferdinand
d)
Helu
30.
“If the American imperialists provoke us a bit, we will not hesitate to slap them with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. The United States must choose! It’s up to you whether the nation called the United States exists on this planet or not.” I am the current leader of North Korea, Who am I?
a)
Ho Chi Minh
b)
Kim Jon-il
Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il
c)
Kim Jong-un
d)
King Il Sung
31.
I am the United Kingdom’s longest serving monarch of over 64 years. In my lifetime Canada’s developed as a nation has been remarkable. This vast, rich and varied country has inspired its own and attracted many others by its adherence to certain values. Some are enshrined in law but I should imagine just as many are simply found in the hearts of ordinary Canadians.”
a)
Queen Mary
b)
Queen Victoria
c)
Queen Elizabeth I
d)
Queen Elizabeth II
32.
“Ours can be the first generation to end poverty – and the last generation to address climate change before it is too late." “Be a global citizen. Act with passion and compassion. Help us make this world safer and more sustainable today and for the generations that will follow us. That is our moral responsibility.
a)
Ban Ki Moon
b)
Mother Teresa
c)
Helu
d)
Pope Francis
33.
The US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical…it is our duty to make jihad (holy war)…so that we drive the Americans away from all Muslim countries. There was a bounty on my head for $27 million, but I was killed by US forces in 2011 and my body was dumped into the ocean.
a)
El Chapo Guzman
b)
al-Baghdadi
c)
al Zarqawi
d)
Bin Laden
34.
I have tried to help out the poorest people in the world because I truly believe that “in this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love”. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”.
a)
Pope Francis
b)
Pope John Paul II
c)
Mother Teresa
d)
Susan B. Anthony
35.
I was British Prime Minister in the 1930’s that famously stated I have created “peace in our time.” I stated this after speaking with Adolf Hitler thinking that World War II was not going to happen.
a)
Chamberlain
b)
Churchill
c)
Atlee
d)
Cameron
36.
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Gandhi
c)
Dr. King Jr.
d)
Mandela
37.
I was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean; "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
a)
Lingberg
b)
Wright Brothers
c)
Tesla
d)
Earhart
38.
I was an amazing scientist, engineer and inventor who changed world history, "It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus."
a)
Bell
b)
Fermi
c)
Marconi
d)
Tesla
39.
I just happen to be in a coffee shop at the right time and place when a member of the Austro-Hungarian Royal family drove by.” The bullet from my gun started the First World War in world history
a)
Booth
b)
Princip
c)
Oswald
d)
Ray
40.
“Yesterday…a date which will live in infamy. . The United States of American was suddenly and deliberately attacked…” spoken in 1941. I was suffering a sinus infection so it is believed my doctor gave me cocaine before my famous speech to the American people.
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Hoover
c)
Johnson
d)
Carter
41.
The theory behind what gives matter mass, the "God Particle”, this has helped humanity understand the nature of all matter in the universe, For our work to discovery and prove this exists, we have won the Noble Prize in Physics and some say one of the greatest discoveries in the world of science, ever!
a)
Einstein
b)
Kajita & Mcdonald
c)
Englert and Higgs
d)
Amano & Akasaki
42.
I was assassinated in Sarajevo, my death sparked the first Great War of the 20th century?
a)
Princip
b)
Kennedy
c)
Lincoln
d)
Ferdinand
43.
I gave my people land, food and bread. I said “that no revolutionary movement can endure without a stable organization of leaders”. This was spoken in 1917 as I was a student of Marx and his ideas. My body is still preserved in the Kremlin in Moscow.
a)
Lenin
b)
Marx
c)
Zedong
d)
Stalin
44.
I was a gardener, world traveler and pastry chef, before I became a revolutionary whose country became Communist and first defeated the French, in Indochina and later my people defeated the United States.
a)
Shang Kia Shek
b)
Ho Chi Minh
c)
Mao Zedong
d)
Kim Il Sun
45.
Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories...America is a place where you can write your own destiny.”
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Obama
c)
Washington
d)
Lincoln
46.
“Cyber theft of commercial secrets and hacking attacks against government networks are both illegal; such acts are criminal offences and should be punished according to law and relevant international conventions”; I want to expand Chinese influence in the world, I am the leader of the most populated and largest Communist country in the world?
a)
Jinping
b)
Jintao
c)
Xiannian
d)
Geun-hye
47.
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, it’s ourselves.” “People do not decide to be extraordinary, they decide to accomplish extra ordinary things.” I was the first person to climb to the top of the world with my Sherpa Tanzig Norgay. I am quoted as saying, “we knocked the b#$tard off: He did a majority of the work and I just climbed.
a)
Mallory
b)
Krakauer
c)
Hillary
d)
Irvine
48.
_“If birds can glide for long periods of time, then…why can’t I?” “More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination”. The first powered airplane flew 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina
a)
Yeager
b)
Wright Brothers
c)
Sullenberger
d)
Da Vinci
49.
I was known as the “holy healer” in Russia but I was poisoned, shot and later drowned in one of the most famous deaths in world history, they have also written a pop culture song about me.
a)
Ivan "the Terrible"
b)
Peter "the Great"
c)
Alexander I
d)
Rasputin
50.
And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” This world leader helped prevent World War III from happening in Cuba, but this speech did not save his life as he was later assassinated in Dallas, Texas
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Truman
d)
Kennedy
51.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Some of my inventions include: the phonograph, long lasting electric light bulbs and the motion picture camera. I was the greatest inventor of the 20th century.
a)
Edison
b)
Marconi
c)
Fermi
d)
Tesla
52.
Stay hungry, stay foolish! Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me, going to bed at night saying we’re doing something wonderful that’s what matters to me. I created the “i" generation
a)
Dell
b)
Packard
c)
Cook
d)
Jobs
53.
The Watergate Scandal broke and I spoke out publicly that “I was not a crook”; “when the President does it that means it is not illegal," but I lied, and I resigned as US President. I was later pardoned.
a)
Carter
b)
Nixon
c)
Clinton
d)
Reagan
54.
I was the first person to fly 3, 600 miles, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris. Later my son was involved in the Crime of the Century in which he was kidnapped and later murdered.
a)
Lindberg
b)
Yeager
c)
von Richthofen
d)
Hartmann
55.
“If we were to divide mankind into 3 groups, the founders of culture, the bearers of culture, and destroyers of culture only the Aryan (race) could be considered.” This Aryan race would be used to rule the Third Reich, but my master plan failed and I committed suicide in 1945.
a)
Goebbels
b)
Himmler
c)
Goring
d)
Hitler
56.
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” I was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island; “as I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. I later became the first African man to be democratically elected as the leader of South Africa. “No one is born hating, another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…”
a)
Aung San Suu Kyi
b)
Gandhi
c)
Dalai Lama
d)
Mandela
57.
Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.” “I think the wealth should be reinvested to create more wealth. The fruit of wealth is income and it is important to develop the distribution of income.
a)
Buffet
b)
Gates
c)
Jobs
d)
Helu
58.
I was a US General and President; “Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone.
a)
Patton
b)
Eisenhower
c)
MacArthur
d)
Nimitz
59.
“We are fifty years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance (to collectivize and industrialize) in ten years.” I saved my country from the Nazis with my scorched earth policy. “Death solves all problems; no man, no problem”
a)
Lenin
b)
Zedong
c)
Stalin
d)
Putin
60.
“Be the change you want to see in the world” was spoken by this famous man who believed in peaceful resistance. I ended Imperialism in my country but for my efforts was later murdered in 1947 by a Muslim extremist.
a)
Mandela
b)
Malcolm X
c)
Dalai Lama
d)
Gandhi
61.
I was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and famously stated “whether you like it or not history is on our side. We will bring you down
a)
Brezhnev
b)
Stalin
c)
Khrushchev
d)
Andropov
62.
“Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall,” famously spoken in Berlin during the Cold War. I was almost assassinated in Washington, DC, 69 days into my presidency. I was a Hollywood actor turned world leader.
a)
Bush Sr.
b)
Clinton
c)
Reagan
d)
Bush Jr.
63.
I drove the Industrial Revolution in the USA with mass production, mechanization and the assembly line; “failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently; I also was given the highest order by the Nazis in Germany in 1938 over my support of Adolf Hitler.
a)
Chrysler
b)
Daimler
c)
Ford
d)
Dodge
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