Q4 Famous People 50 0 The statue of which famous person is at the West end of Westminster Bridge in London? Queen Boadicea Nelson Drake Cleopatra In 1799 who introduced income tax? William Pitt Lord Grenville Sir Robert Walpole Sir Robert Peel Who made the first direct flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland? Alcock and Brown The Wright Brothers H. Hinkler Charles Lindbergh Whom does the statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen commemorate? Hans Christian Andersen The Brothers Grimm Henrik Ibsen Edvard Grieg Who founded the Boy Scout movement in 1908? Robert Baden-Powell Thomas Barnado Thomas Arnold William Booth Who was the Supreme Allied Commander of the Invasion of Europe in 1944? Eisenhower Montgomery Mountbatten MacArthur Who constructed the Suez Canal? Lesseps Eiffel Brunel Telford Who introduced the "Penny Post"? Rowland Hill George Fox John Howard William Gladstone What is the name of Princess Margaret's daughter? Sarah Elizabeth Mary Anne The huge cliff carvings at Mt.Rushmore depict four USA Presidents: Roosevelt, Lincoln& Washington. Who is the 4th? Jefferson Truman Eisenhower Jackson What nationality was Marie Tussaud who founded the famouswaxworks exhibition? Swiss French Belgian English Which USA President was in office when war was declared on Germany during WW1? Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt Warren Harding William Taft Who was the first woman MP to take her seat at Westminster? Lady Astor Countess of Iveagh Dame Irene Ward Sylvia Pankhurst What is Cliff Richard's real surname? Webb Cooper Parker Harris Which saint's day falls on 30th November? Andrew David George Patrick Who invented the aeroplane? Wright Marconi Baird Parsons Which English king paid the Danes to go away rather than drive them out by fighting? Ethelred Duncan I Egbert Alfred Who is the only American President to have resigned from office? Nixon McKinley Johnson Cleveland Whom did John Wilkes Booth assassinate? Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther King John Lennon John Kennedy With which sport is Ian Bothamassociated? Cricket Football Rugby Snooker Who directed the box office successes "Jaws" and "E.T."? Steven Spielberg Richard Attenborough Ken Russell Roman Polanski Who starred in "A Star is Born" and in 1983 directed andtook the leading role in "Yentl"? Barbra Streisand Warren Beatty Jane Fonda Kris Kristofferson Who starred in the late 60's film, "The Graduate"? Dustin Hoffman Paul Newman Steve McQueen Robert Redford Of what is Saint Cecilia the patron saint? Music France Children Literature Who was the founder of the Quakers? George Fox William Booth Mary Baker Eddy William Penn Which Russian novelist wrote "Crime and Punishment"? Feodor Dostoyevsky Alexander Solzhenitsyn Maxim Gorky Leo Tolstoy In which city were Oscar WildeGeorge Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats all born? Dublin Belfast Wexford Cork On which island did Napoleon die? St Helena Capri Elba Corsica Which author was called "Tusitala", the Teller of Tales by the natives of Samoa in the South Seas? Robert Louis Stevenson Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Sir Walter Scott Who wrote the poem called "Jabberwocky"? Lewis Carroll Spike Milligan Roald Dahl Edward Lear Who was the brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne? Branwell Arnold Anthony Robert Which saint is said to stand at the gates of Heaven? St Peter St Michael St John St Paul Who had the pseudonym "Boz"? Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde Daniel Defoe James Boswell Who flew in the "Spirit of St Louis"? Charles Lindbergh Orville Wright Amy Johnson John Alcock Who was Jesus' "beloved disciple"? John Peter Paul Matthew Which scientist sailed in the Beagle? Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel Edward Jenner Thomas Huxley Who starred with Paul Newman in "The Sting"? Robert Redford Steve McQueen Dustin Hoffman Warren Beatty Whom did Neil Kinnock succeed as Leader of the Labour Party? Michael Foot James Callaghan Dennis Healey Harold Wilson With whom did Peter Cook team up in the 60's to form a comedy duo? Dudley Moore John Cleese Marty Feldman Jonathan Miller Which leader was assassinated while reviewing a military parade in October 1981? President Sadat President Tito Ayatollah Khomeini Mao Tse-tung Which Old Testament king was noted for his wisdom? Soloman Methuselah David Zedekiah What is Princess Anne's daughter called? Zara Selina Ellen Zoe Which DJ works voluntarily at Broadmoor and Leeds Infirmary? Jimmy Saville Tony Blackburn Terry Wogan Jimmy Young In which year was Prince Charles born? 1948 1952 1950 1946 Whom did Constantine Chernenkosucceed as leader of the USSR? Yuri Andropov Alexei Kosygin Nikita Krushchev Leonid Brezhnev When was Prince William born? 21st June, 1982 14th October, 1982 23rd March, 1982 5th August, 1982 Who was the first man to splitthe atom? Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Frank Oppenheimer Von Laue Who was the British Prime Minister when Victory in Europe was declared at the endof World War II? Winston Churchill Neville Chamberlain Clement Attlee Stanley Baldwin Who fought for a fair deal forthe Red Indians in America? Davy Crockett George Custer Buffalo Bill Andrew Jackson Which missionary looked after the lepers in Honolulu in the 19th Century and consequently died of the disease? Father Damien St Thomas Aquinas St Teresa St Francis Xavier