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HISTORICAL FIGURES

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to him "All matter is comprised of tiny, definite particles called atoms".

a)

W. SHAKESPEARE

b)

A. GRAHAM BELL

c)

J. DALTON

d)

ADAM SMITH

2.

Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone

a)

W. SHAKESPEARE

b)

A. GRAHAM BELL

c)

J. DALTON

d)

ADAM SMITH

3.

He married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, when he was 18.

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

The first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.

a)

A. GRAHAM BELL

b)

ADAM SMITH

c)

W & O WRIGHT

d)

W. SHAKESPEARE

5.

In late 1888, He dropped out of high School

after his junior year.

a)

ORVILLE WRIGHT

b)

ADAM SMITH

c)

WILBUR WRIGHT

d)

W. SHAKESPEARE

6.

He had three brothers Hasar, Hachiun, and Temuge,

one sister Temulen, and two half brothers – Bogter and Belgutei.

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

His early life was difficult. At age of nine, his father arranged a marriage for him.

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

He grew up in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. His mother was the daughter of a local farmer and his father was a glove-maker.

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

ACCORDING TO HIM:

“This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it”

-..................

a)

ORVILLE WRIGHT

b)

J. DALTON

c)

WILBUR WRIGHT

d)

W. SHAKESPEARE

10.

ACCORDING TO HIM

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

-.......................

a)

W. SHAKESPEARE

b)

J. DALTON

c)

WILBUR WRIGHT

d)

A. GRAHAM BELL

11.

He was known as “The Father of Economics” or “The Father of Capitalism”.

a)

W. SHAKESPEARE

b)

J. DALTON

c)

ADAM SMITH

d)

A. GRAHAM BELL

12.

In 1889,He started printing business, having designed and built his own printing press

a)

W. WRIGHT

b)

J. DALTON

c)

ADAM SMITH

d)

O. WRIGHT

13.

He wrote two classic works, The theory of moral sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the wealth of Nations (1776

a)

W. WRIGHT

b)

A.GRAHAM BELL

c)

ADAM SMITH

d)

O. WRIGHT

14.

He never married and had only a few close friends. As a Quaker, he lived a modest and unassuming personal life.

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

He had two brothers: Melville James and Edward Charles, both of whom would die of tuberculosis.

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain.

a)

W. WRIGHT

b)

W.SHAKESPEAR

c)

ADAM SMITH

d)

O. WRIGHT

17.

Both he and his brother were born color-blind

a)

J. DALTON

b)

ADAM SMITH

c)

W.SHAKESPEAR

d)

O. WRIGHT

18.

In his work, He introduced his theory of absolute advantage. He wrote and published the theory of Moral Sentiments.

a)

A. GRAHAM BELL

b)

J. DALTON

c)

W.SHAKESPEAR

d)

ADAM SMITH

19.

He was the founder and first great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire. Which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death

a)
b)
c)
d)
20.

His most famous piece of work which is known all over the world is Romeo and Juliet ( 1595 )

a)

A. GRAHAM BELL

b)

J. DALTON

c)

W.SHAKESPEAR

d)

ADAM SMITH