Famous People by Country Quiz
Match the personality to the country they come from. A 30-question quiz on where famous people were born, lived and worked.
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- Lionel Messi is from which country?
Answer: Argentina - Cristiano Ronaldo is from which country?
Answer: Portugal - Usain Bolt, the fastest sprinter in history, is from which country?
Answer: Jamaica - Sachin Tendulkar, cricket's greatest run-scorer, is from which country?
Answer: India - Babar Azam is from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Wasim Akram, the 'Sultan of Swing', is from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Imran Khan, who captained Pakistan to the 1992 World Cup, is from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Albert Einstein was born in which country?
Answer: Germany - Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India's independence movement, is from which country?
Answer: India - Nelson Mandela is from which country?
Answer: South Africa - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in which country?
Answer: Austria - Ludwig van Beethoven was born in which country?
Answer: Germany - William Shakespeare was born in which country?
Answer: England - Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, was born in which country?
Answer: Italy - Pablo Picasso was born in which country?
Answer: Spain - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, is from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate, is from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Marie Curie was born in which country?
Answer: Poland - Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species, was born in which country?
Answer: England - Isaac Newton was born in which country?
Answer: England - Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, a village that is in which present-day country?
Answer: Croatia - Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, in which present-day country?
Answer: North Macedonia - Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of which country during the Second World War?
Answer: United Kingdom - Abdus Salam, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, was from which country?
Answer: Pakistan - Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, was from which country?
Answer: India - Stephen Hawking was born in which country?
Answer: England - Ada Lovelace, often called the first computer programmer, was born in which country?
Answer: England - Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, was born in which country?
Answer: Russia - Charlie Chaplin was born in which country?
Answer: England - Abdul Sattar Edhi founded his welfare organisation in Karachi, in which country?
Answer: Pakistan
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