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Who was the first person in space?

  • Yuri Gagarin
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Who was the first European to sail into New York Harbor?

  • Henry Hudson
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Who was the first Chinese leader to use the term "Emperor" or "Huang Ti"?

  • Chin Shih Huang
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Who was the first African-American female astronaut?

  • Dr. Mae Jemison
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Who was the famous Polish female scientist who won a Nobel Prize?

  • Marie Curie
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Who was the famous botanist who traveled with Captain Cook on his first voyage?

  • Joseph Banks
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Who was the dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989?

  • Ceausescu
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Who was the Czech foreign minister who died mysteriously following the Communist coup in that country in 1948?

  • Jan Masaryk
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Who was the creator of the Mongol empire?

  • Genghis Khan
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Who was the creator of the "Barbie" doll?

  • Ruth Handler
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Who was the Confederate spy who became a bodyguard for the Pope at the Vatican?

  • John Surratt
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Who was the Clark University physicist responsible for "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"?

  • Robert Goddard
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Who was the cartoon mascot for Kellogg's "Pop-Tarts" in 1971?

  • Milton the Toaster
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Who was the captain of the "Pinta" on Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492?

  • Martin Alonso Pinzon
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Who was the British Navy Minister during WW1?

  • Winston Churchill
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Who was the American Pop Artist, who lived from 1928-1987?

  • Andy Warhol
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Who was Prime Minister of Canada during World War II?

  • William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Who was Odette Sansom in World War II?

  • Female British Spy
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Who was nicknamed the "Iron Chancellor" and known as the unifier of Germany?

  • Otto Von Bismarck
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Who was known as the "Mad Monarch"?

  • George III
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Who was known as a pioneer in aviation and disappeared over the mid-Pacific in 1937?

  • Amelia Earhart
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Who was in charge of the German Luftwaffe during World War II?

  • Hermann Goering
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Who was George H. W. Bush's Vice President?

  • Dan Quayle
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Who was founder and chairman of America Online Corporation?

  • Steve Case
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Who was first chosen to be Nasser's Vice President and was once President?

  • Anwar Sadat
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Who was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman better known as?

  • Nellie Bly
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Who was Australia's Prime Minister at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

  • John Curtin
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Who was arrested after killing at least 34 people on the Australian island of Tasmania in 1996?

  • Martin Bryant
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Who voted for the first time in the elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait in 2006?

  • Women
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Who took over as the top civilian administrator of Iraq in May 2003?

  • Paul Bremer
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Who succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister in 1940?

  • Winston Churchill
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Who succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as Egyptian leader?

  • Anwar Al Sadat
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Who signed the German surrender in World War II?

  • Alfred Jodl
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Who set a record for days in space by a woman in 1995?

  • Elena Kondova
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Who said "it is far safer to be feared than loved"?

  • Niccolo Machiavelli
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Who said "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?

  • Alexander Pope
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Who ruled as Soviet dictator from 1924 until 1953?

  • Josef Stalin
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Who put forth the Theory of Relativity in 1905?

  • Albert Einstein
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Who promoted the development of the Volkswagen "Beetle"?

  • Adolf Hitler
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Who preceded Fidel Castro as political leader of Cuba?

  • Fulgencio Batista
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Who painted the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  • Michelangelo
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Who painted "The Ship of Fools"?

  • Hieronymus Bosch
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Who painted "The Kiss"?

  • Gustav Klimt
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Who painted the famous picture of Napoleon crossing the Alps?

  • Jacques-Louis David
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Who painted "Madonna of the Rosary", in which St. Dominic has been given a rosary by "the Virgin"?

  • Caravaggio
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Who painted a view of Phillies Diner at night?

  • Hopper
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Who out of the following was famous for his paintings?

  • Pablo Picasso
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Who named a urinal "Fountain" and exhibited it in 1917?

  • Marcel Duchamp
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Who led the Solidarity movement and became President of Poland in 1990?

  • Walesa
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Who killed the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521?

  • Lapu-Lapu
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