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Famous People
Answer questions about famous people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the first man on the Moon | Neil Armstrong |
| The 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, the only president to resign the office. He had previously served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to that as both a U.S. Representative and Senator | Richard Nixon |
| was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. | George S. Patton |
| was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic | Nelson Mandela |
| is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens | Donald Trump |
| was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities | Marco Polo |
| was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. | Hernan Cortes |
| was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. | John F. Kennedy |
| was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. assumed the presidency as he was Vice President of the United States at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Andrew Johnson |
| was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, | Queen Victoria |
| was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary. He was leader of the Nazi Party, and rose to power in Germany as Chancellor in 1933 and Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II i | Adolf Hitler |
| was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party. He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943; he constitutionally led the country until 1925, when he dropped the pretense of democracy | Benito Mussolini |
| was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and among those most directly responsible for the Holocaust. | Heinrich Himmler |
| , was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. | Vladimir Lenin |
| , was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890. | Otto von Bismarck |
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