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Historical Figures Quiz

Leaders, rulers and revolutionaries who shaped history. A 30-question quiz on the historical figures behind the great changes of their time.

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  1. In which year was Pakistan founded?
    Answer: 1947
  2. Who was Pakistan's first Governor-General?
    Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  3. How many years did Nelson Mandela spend in prison?
    Answer: 27 years
  4. On which island did Nelson Mandela spend most of his years in prison?
    Answer: Robben Island
  5. In which year was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?
    Answer: 1948
  6. Abraham Lincoln was which number president of the United States?
    Answer: 16th
  7. In which year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
    Answer: 1492
  8. What was Florence Nightingale's famous nickname?
    Answer: The Lady with the Lamp
  9. Barack Obama was which number president of the United States?
    Answer: 44th
  10. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
    Answer: Neil Armstrong
  11. What does the title 'Quaid-e-Azam', given to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, mean?
    Answer: Great Leader
  12. In which year did Nelson Mandela win the Nobel Peace Prize?
    Answer: 1993
  13. In which year did Nelson Mandela become president of South Africa?
    Answer: 1994
  14. In which year did Gandhi lead the Salt March to protest the British salt tax?
    Answer: 1930
  15. In which year did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Answer: 1863
  16. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
    Answer: John Wilkes Booth
  17. Which philosopher tutored the young Alexander the Great?
    Answer: Aristotle
  18. Which Egyptian city did Alexander the Great found in 331 BCE?
    Answer: Alexandria
  19. Cleopatra VII belonged to which dynasty?
    Answer: Ptolemaic dynasty
  20. Which French city did Joan of Arc help free from an English siege in 1429?
    Answer: Orléans
  21. In which year did Winston Churchill win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Answer: 1953
  22. Where did Winston Churchill deliver his famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech on 4 June 1940?
    Answer: The House of Commons
  23. In which year did Alexander the Great defeat Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela?
    Answer: 331 BCE
  24. What was Genghis Khan's birth name?
    Answer: Temujin
  25. In which year did Genghis Khan found the Mongol Empire?
    Answer: 1206
  26. In which year was Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen?
    Answer: 1431
  27. In which year was Joan of Arc canonized as a saint?
    Answer: 1920
  28. In which year did Allama Iqbal deliver his Allahabad Address?
    Answer: 1930
  29. In which year did Abdul Sattar Edhi found the Edhi Foundation?
    Answer: 1951
  30. In which year did Mother Teresa found the Missionaries of Charity?
    Answer: 1950

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