People trivia questions
2356 multiple-choice People trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which US President said: I am not a crook.?
- Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. These words were delivered by which US President?
- Which famous boxer said that he would float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.?
- Which scientist is credited with the following quote: I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.?
- Which famous politician said: We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.?
- Who made a speech, known by the popular name I Have a Dream?
- What famous person delivered these words: I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.?
- Which fashion designer made this statement: Fashion passes, style remains.?
- Which US President said the following words: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.?
- Who is credited with delivering the following words: 100% of the shots you dont take dont go in.?
- These words belong to which famous writer: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.?
- One of the following terrorist leaders can be described as a tall and thin man with an olive complexion and a cane, who is left-handed and always wears a plain white turban.
- The Roman emperor, Tiberius, was a left-handed ruler, who belonged to what dynasty?
- Raphael was a left-handed painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance. One of these works does not belong to him.
- Which of these rulers / politicians was not left-handed?
- Nelson Rockefeller, the left-handed 41st Vice President of the United States of America, was a governor of this state before becoming Vice President.
- Jay Leno is a left-handed American comedian, who suffers from what disease?
- The left-handed actor, Jim Carrey, played what character in the 2004 Hollywood production, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
- This is the last movie in which the lefty, Charlie Chaplin appeared.
- The left-handed Hollywood actor, Morgan Freeman, was born in which city?
- After achieving success with his horror stories, this writer called himself Richard Bachman because he wanted to see if his novels would sell without his already famous name on them.
- Lewis Carroll conceived Alices Adventures in Wonderland as nursery tales for the daughter of a friend.
- Paul Eluard was a major exponent of surrealism. Many of his poems reflect the hardship after his separation with his first wife Gala, who left him for Salvador Dali.
- Besides a poet, Pablo Neruda was also a diplomat and a Communist leader. He changed his original name because he didnt want his father to find out he was a poet.
- Anatole France was probably the most famous French man of letters of his time. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Stendhal hated his father so he took the first opportunity to leave for Paris, where he became a lieutenant in Napoleon’s army. He began his literary career after the fall of Napoleon in 1814.
- Moliere became famous as the father of French high comedy. He coined the phrase castigat ridendo mores (to criticise customs through humour) which is sometimes mistaken for a genuine Latin proverb.
- Saki was a master of short stories. It is said that his pen name could be a reference to a monkey with the same name.
- O. Henry was working as a bank teller when he was sent to jail for embezzlement. He spent 3 years in jail where he started writing his short stories.
- This Roman dictator proclaimed himself a god and built statues and temples to himself in Rome. He even ordered his statue to be placed in Jerusalem, so Jews can worship him.