Famous People Quiz for 30 April 2013
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Question 1: Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 1660-1669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
A
B
William Pitt the Elder
James Boswell
C
Oscar Wilde
D
Samuel Pepys