Historical Figures Quiz

1. You are examining notebooks about finches, variation among species, and natural selection following a voyage on HMS Beagle. Who produced them?

2. A hospital reformer uses mortality records and statistical diagrams to argue for improved sanitation after serving during the Crimean War. Who is she?

3. Accounts describe a ruler of Mali making a lavish pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 and distributing large amounts of gold along the route. Who was he?

4. A speaker who had escaped slavery links abolition and women's rights in the speech commonly known as “Ain't I a Woman?” Which figure fits these clues?

5. Who published a 1543 work proposing that Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun?

6. Which figure is associated with developing a practical movable-type printing system in 15th-century Europe?

7. A Renaissance artist in Florence wants support from the statesman and patron called “the Magnificent.” Whose circle would the artist seek to join?

8. Which ruler unified several warring states in 221 BCE and ordered standardization of writing, currency, weights, and measures across his empire?

9. Which Ottoman sultan led the conquest of Constantinople in 1453?

10. Which ancient ruler is most closely associated with a written Babylonian law code displayed on a stone monument?

11. An independence leader organizes a mass march to the sea to protest a colonial government's monopoly and tax on salt. Who is being described?

12. An anti-apartheid activist spends 27 years in prison and later becomes South Africa's president in 1994. Who is being described?

13. A Russian ruler travels through Western Europe on the Great Embassy and later establishes St. Petersburg as a new capital. Who is he?

14. Royal edicts carved on rocks and pillars describe remorse after the Kalinga War and promote dhamma, tolerance, and welfare. Which ruler issued them?

15. Which Mexican artist became famous for symbolic self-portraits shaped partly by chronic pain following a serious bus accident?

16. Which leader, born into slavery, became a leading general of the Haitian Revolution but died before Haiti declared independence?