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 #714

Famous People Quiz for 20 September 2022

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. Who compiled the 5 volume "The Canon of Medicine", completed in 1025 and still in use as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe?

A
Hippocrates
B
Galen
C
Aristotle
D
Ibn Sina, or (in the West) Avicenna
Select from the options above.
2

Q2. Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?

A
Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
B
Alfred Einstein (1879-1955)
C
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
D
James Watt (1736-1819)
Select from the options above.
3

Q3. Which author, in his 2006 graphic novel series, put Marvel icons including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Magneto and more into the context of an Elizabethan London in 1602?

A
Daniel Lieske
B
Neil Gaiman
C
Art Spiegel
D
Philip Pullman
Select from the options above.
4

Q4. Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor"?

A
Eddie Murphy
B
Will Smith
C
Robin Williams
D
Billy Crystal
Select from the options above.
5

Q5. Gordon Bennett, a leading figure on the world stage in the 19th century, made his substantial fortune in what field?

A
Banking
B
Engineering
C
Journalism
D
Transport
Select from the options above.
6

Q6. Which of these is famous for dancing in the rain with an umbrella in a film?

A
John Wayne
B
Fred Astaire
C
Gene Kelly
D
Cary Grant
Select from the options above.
7

Q7. Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century?

A
St Vincent de Paul
B
Dr Thomas Barnardo
C
Sir Truby King
D
General William Booth
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.