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Who was the first elected president of the United States of America?
George Washington.
Thailand's best-known royal poet. He wrote during the Rattanakosin period.
Sunthorn Phu
The fifth monarch under the House of Chakri. He modernized the governmental system and social society of Siam. A famous university is named after him.
Chulalongkorn
The founder of Apple?
Steve Jobs.
The first king of a unified Thailand, founder of the kingdom of Sukhothai.
King Sri Indraditya
How many kings did the Kingdom of Belgium have during its existence (up until the present day)? (You may be off by 2)
Seven (=7)
Who was the first head of the People´s Republic of China?
Mao Tse Tung.
Who was the famous Emperor of France who conquered several European countries?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who discovered America?
Christopher Columbus.
Who was the composer who is responsible for 9 symphonies, the last of which was composed while he was almost completely deaf?
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Who was the scientist who worked out "Theory of Relativity"?
Albert Einstein.
Who campaigned and fought for civil rights in America? He was assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King.
The greatest heavyweight boxer ever. He converted to Islam and changed his name.
Muhammad Ali.
A legendary martial artist movie star?
Bruce Lee.
Influential Thai philosopher in the 20th century. He was an innovative reinterpreter of Buddhist doctrine.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Appointed as Vietnam's first president in 1946.
Hồ Chí Minh
Who discovered the chemical element, radium?
Marie Curie.
Name one of the Chinese heads of state between Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping.
Deng Xiaoping / Jiang Zemin / Hu Jintao / Wen Jiabao
The founder of the Mongolian Empire
Gengis Khan.
Burmese independence activist and revolutionary. Founder of modern-day Myanmar. Nicknamed 'Father of the Nation'.
Aung San
Who composed music from the age of six and was the enemy of 'Salieri'?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Who was the last tsar to rule in Russia?
Tsar Nickolas II.
Who invented the telescope and was the first to claim that the earth moved round the sun?
Galileo.
King of Cambodia for the first time from 1941-1955 and a second time from 1993-2004. Nicknamed the 'King Father' of Cambodia.
Norodom Sihanouk
Who is the author of "On the Origin of Species"?
Charles Darwin.
Who established the Soviet Union?
Vladimir Lenin.