Can You Identify These Historical Figures from One Picture?
Updated: Jul. 29, 2021Think you're a history buff? Put your knowledge to the test and see how many faces you remember from history class!
Who is this inventor?
A. Eli Whitney
B. Alexander Graham Bell
C. Thomas Edison
D. Samuel Morse
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Who is this English queen?
A. Queen Elizabeth I
B. Queen Mary II
C. Queen Anne
D. Queen Victoria
Answer:
A. Queen Elizabeth I was crowned the English monarch at the young age of 25. She established Protestantism in England and maintained peace inside her previously divided country for 44 prosperous years. These are the most iconic royal wedding photos in history.
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D. Claude Monet painted pictures that inspired the famous art movement of Impressionism. Vincent van Gogh is another famous artist that still inspires painters today, although, he didn’t really cut off his ear which is one of the 9 famous moments in history that never actually happened.
Who is this author?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Mary Shelley
C. Louisa May Alcott
D. Charlotte Brontë
Answer:
B. Mary Shelley wrote the famous novel Frankenstein. Check out these fascinating facts about famous authors.
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C. Sacagawea was the one woman invited on the Lewis and Clark expedition to help the explorers navigate the Louisiana Territory.
Who is this American botanist?
A. Frederick Douglass
B. W.E.B. Du Bois
C. Booker T. Washington
D. George Washington Carver
Answer:
D. George Washington Carver is a prominent scientist who devised over 100 products such as dyes, plastics, and gasoline from one major crop, the peanut. If you didn’t know the peanut was so versatile, you probably also don’t know these 18 science facts you never learned in school.
Who is this historical woman?
A. Georgia O’Keeffe
B. Joan Mitchell
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Emily Dickinson
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C. James Buchanan was the 15th President of the United States. Don’t miss the U.S. presidential trivia questions everyone gets wrong.
Who is this abolitionist?
A. Elizabeth Freeman
B. Sojourner Truth
C. Harriet Tubman
D. Sarah Mapp Douglass
Answer:
B. Sojourner Truth was an escaped slave who became an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century. Don’t miss these 21 candid photos you’ll never find in history books.
Who is this great conqueror?
A. Julius Caesar
B. Cyrus the Great
C. Diocletian
D. Alexander the Great
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C. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 for her discovery of the element radium.
Which First Lady of the United States is this?
A. Betty Ford
B. Lady Bird Johnson
C. Pat Nixon
D. Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer:
C. Pat Nixon was the wife of 37th President Richard Nixon. Here are more facts you never knew about America’s first ladies.
Who is this historical figure?
A. Charles Lindbergh
B. Henry Ford
C. Orville Wright
D. Buzz Aldrin
Answer:
A. Charles Lindbergh made history when he took the first nonstop solo trip across the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to Paris in 1927. You’ll also want to check out these 10 historical figures who may not have ever existed.
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D. Crazy Horse was a Sioux Indian chief who helped defeat the American soldiers in the Battle of Little Bighorn in an effort to keep his people from being forced into Indian Reservations by the U.S. government. Brush up on more history trivia with these history questions most people don’t get correct.
