Famous people
1. Who was the first female pilot to fly solo
over the Atlantic Ocean? Amelia Earhart
2. Who was the youngest person to win the Nobel prize? Malala
Yousafzai
3. Which is Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention? The
telephone.
5. What was the name of the Argentine doctor who developed the
heart bypass surgery?
Rene Favaloro
6. Who wrote the first computer program in History? Ada Lovelace
7. Who is known as “the lady of the lamp”? What profession
did she improve? Florence Nightingale – Nursing
8. Who said “Feet, what do I need them for when
I have wings to fly”? Frida Kahlo
9. Who was Queen during Shakespeare’s time? Elizabeth I
10. Who organized a peaceful resistance in India which led to
their Independence? Mahatma Gandhi
11. Who invented the airplane? The Wright brothers
12. What is Einstein’s most famous theory called? Theory
of relativity
13. Who proposed the theory of Evolution by natural
selection? Charles Darwin
14. Who formulated the laws of motion and universal
gravitation? Isaac Newton
15. What did Copernicus discover? That the Earth revolves
around the Sun
16. What did Susan B. Anthony fight for? Women’s
right to vote (she was a suffragette)
17. Who is said to have discovered electricity?
Benjamin Franklin
18. Who
founded the Missionaries of Charity? Mother Theresa
19. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel
prize and only person to win it in two different categories? Marie Curie
19. 1 Which elements did Marie Curie discover? Radium
and Polonium
19 .2 Which two Nobel prizes did she win? Physics
and Chemistry
20. How many argentines have won the Nobel Prize? Five
21. Who discovered penicillin? Alexander Fleming
22. How did Joan of Arc die? She was burned at the stake
23. Who invented the printing press during the Renaissance? Johannes
Gutenberg
24. Who is the founder of Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg
25. What famous tech company did Steve Jobs
co-found? Apple
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