Daily Quiz Daily

Our daily general knowledge quiz

Quiz Archive Archive

A complete history of our quiz challenges

By Subject Subjects

Choose from seven quiz categories

Personalised Personalised

Build a quiz by subject and difficulty

People Quiz #180

Famous People Quiz for 26 June 2012

A new people quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

0 out of ?
1

Q1. Which of these is a master woodcarver, famous for his work with Christopher Wren?

A
Jack Coutu
B
Advent Hunstone
C
Grinling Gibbons
D
Werburgh Welch
Select from the options above.
2

Q2. Who wrote "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo"?

Note: This question was updated in July 2020
A
Stephen Hawking
B
Desmond Morris
C
David Attenborough
D
P J O'Rourke
Select from the options above.
3

Q3. MC Kenzie and MC Reaper were members of which group?

A
Party Dark
B
So Solid Crew
C
Big Brovaz
D
Blazin Squad
Select from the options above.
4

Q4. What do Seung-Hui Cho, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Robert Steinhäuser, Charles Joseph Whitman, Tim Kretschmer, Marc Lépine, Dylan Bennet Klebold, Eric David Harris, Farda Gadirov, Bai Ningyang and Walter Seifert have in common?

A
They carried out massacres at schools
B
They captained dodgeball teams
C
They were members of US Olympic table tennis teams
D
They were policemen accused of racial bias during arrests
Select from the options above.
5

Q5. Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?

A
Emperor Maximillian II
B
Václav Havel
C
Nicolaus Copernicus
D
Saint Wenceslas
Select from the options above.
6

Q6. Which Scottish singer had a #1 hit in the UK with "All This Time" in 2004 after winning the second series of the UK talent show "Pop Idol"?

A
Darius Danesh
B
Will Young
C
Michelle McManus
D
Susanne Manning
Select from the options above.
7

Q7. Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, J Brown, Abs Breen and Sean Conlon were the founder members of which boy band?

A
East-17
B
Blue
C
5ive
D
Jump5
Select from the options above.
0%
There are 0 questions in this quiz.
You've completed 0 questions.
You've answered 0 questions correctly.
You've answered 0 questions incorrectly.