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Who is who?

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This person was named in ‘Time’ magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

a)

John Kennedy

b)

Gabrielle Chanel

c)

Joanne Rowling

2.

This person had a very poor upbringing

a)

Victor Tsoi

b)

Coco Chanel

c)

S. Korolev

3.

The idea for this character came from nowhere while the author

was on a train to London.

a)

A. Solzhenistyn

b)

J.K. Rowling

c)

I. Kurchatov

4.

this person was the youngest who held his position of the career

a)

M. Lomonosov

b)

Y. Gagarin

c)

J. Kennedy

5.

This name has become part of many languages when we want to say someone is a genius

a)

L. Da Vinci

b)

Tsiolkovsky

c)

Einstein

6.

This person took a strong interest in many charities and important causes

a)

M. Thatcher

b)

Lady D

c)

I. Ghandi

7.

This person was a businessman and a politician at the same time

a)

J. Kennedy

b)

B. Obama

c)

D. Trump

8.

the first novelist ever to become a billionaire from writing

a)

J. R. Tolkien

b)

W. Shakespeare

c)

J. K. Rowling

9.

Her tough style earned her the nickname “The Iron Lady”.

a)

Princess Diana

b)

M. Thatcher

c)

I. Ghandi

10.

The very first creator of social network

a)

P. Durov

b)

M. Zuckerberg

c)

L. Roshal

11.

His efforts to end racial discrimination earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Micheal Jackson

c)

Che Gevara

12.

She worked for over forty years, looking after the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.

a)

Lady D

b)

Mother Theresa

c)

Coco Chanel

13.

He became famous for his anti-war views. His painting "Guernica" showed the horror of war.

a)

Edvard Munk

b)

A. Malevich

c)

Picasso

14.

She has never given a press interview, and no one knows her political views

a)

v. Tereshkova

b)

Coco Chanel

c)

Queen Elisabeth II

15.

This person is known for firing from his own company

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Bill Gates

c)

M. Zuckerberg

16.

This person started learning the keyboard when he was three and composed his first pieces of music aged five.

a)

Paganini

b)

Bach

c)

Mozart

17.

This person became popular by combining his music and lyrics with philosophy.

a)

Makarevich

b)

Tsoi

c)

B2

18.

One of the writer's most terrible childhood memories is the death of a girl of the same age: the unfortunate girl was about nine years old, she survived violence and died in the hospital. The image of a tortured child would later appear repeatedly in his novels.

a)

Gogol

b)

Dostoevski

c)

Solzhenitsyn

19.

This writer was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but never received it

a)

Solzhenitsyn

b)

Tolstoi

c)

Sakharov

20.

1961, on April 12, a man was launched into space for the first time. This hero was Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. However, despite the fact that the cosmonaut's name was widely known to the public, the name of the designer of the rocket on which Yuri flew remained a secret for everyone.

a)

Leonid Roshal

b)

S. Korolev

c)

A. Sakharov

21.

When he was 21 years old, his father consulted with the famous pianist Kundinger about teaching his son music. The same decided that the boy had no talent, and at that age it was too late to start professional classes.

a)

M. Glinka

b)

P. Tchaikovsky

c)

Richter

22.

In exile (ссылка), he was forbidden to engage in any literary activity or even just write. For this reason, the man memorized different texts by turning over the rosary (четки) in his hands.

a)

Solzhenitsyn

b)

Kurchatov

c)

Lermontov