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Who Was? Trivia

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sitting Bull was the leader of what Native American tribe?

a)

The Cheyenne

b)

The Arapaho

c)

The Lakota Sioux

d)

The Crow

2.

This First Lady of the United States gave a famous tour of the White House on broadcast television.

a)

Michelle Obama

b)

Jacqueline Kennedy

c)

Nancy Reagan

d)

Barbara Bush

3.

After graduating from Columbia University, this former president moved to Chicago, Illinois, to become a community organizer.

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Barack Obama

d)

John F. Kennedy

4.

What young woman who was deaf and blind said, “I should be as free as another,” upon being accepted into Radcliffe College?

a)

Rachel Carson

b)

Judy Blume

c)

Helen Keller

d)

Anne Frank

5.

What was Mother Teresa’s given first name?

a)

Drana

b)

Agnes

c)

Palma

d)

Sabella

6.

This president, while still in college, wrote the bestselling book, Why English Slept, making him an expert on WWII.

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Barack Obama

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

7.

Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this woman helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Abigail Adams

8.

What major award did Martin Luther King Jr. win for his civil rights activism?

a)

The Nobel Peace Prize

b)

The Pulitzer Prize

c)

An Academy Award

d)

A Grammy

9.

This president helped create five national parks and preserve 150 national forests across the United States.

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

George Washington

10.

This president was the Commanding General of the War of Independence, which lasted from 1775–1783.

a)

George Washington

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Benjamin Franklin

11.

In 1955, this woman’s refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Coretta Scott King

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Rosa Parks

12.

Not only a former president of the United States, this president was also president of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

George Bush

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Ronald Reagan

13.

This president ran as a Republican candidate in 1860, dubbed “The Rail Candidate” because he had split wooden rails as a boy.

a)

Ronald Reagan

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

George Washington

d)

Andrew Jackson