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50 People Quiz Questions — Free
Test your people knowledge with 50 hand-verified quiz questions, ranging from straightforward warm-up questions to real head-scratchers that will challenge even the most well-read players in the room. Celebrities, world leaders, inventors, and athletes. Who did what, and what are they really called?
All questions are free to play with no account or download required. They work equally well for a competitive pub quiz with scorekeeping, a casual family game night, or a quick solo knowledge check. Questions span easy, medium and hard difficulty to suit groups of all ages and knowledge levels.
Sample People Questions
15 easy, 15 hard and 20 medium questions available. Preview the first 15 below.
Who founded Facebook?
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Mark Zuckerberg
- Elon Musk
- Mark Zuckerberg ✓
- Jeff Bezos
- Bill Gates
Who founded Amazon?
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Jeff Bezos
- Jeff Bezos ✓
- Larry Page
- Elon Musk
- Mark Zuckerberg
Who founded Microsoft?
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Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Bill Gates ✓
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Elon Musk
What is Dwayne Johnson's famous wrestling nickname?
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The Rock
- The Stone
- The Rock ✓
- The Mountain
- The Tank
Who delivered the famous 'I have a dream' speech in 1963?
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Martin Luther King Jr.
- Nelson Mandela
- Barack Obama
- Martin Luther King Jr. ✓
- Malcolm X
Who invented the World Wide Web?
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Tim Berners-Lee
- Bill Gates
- Tim Berners-Lee ✓
- Steve Jobs
- Vint Cerf
He invented it in 1989 at CERN.
Which Beatle wrote 'Let It Be'?
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Paul McCartney
- John Lennon
- George Harrison
- Paul McCartney ✓
- Ringo Starr
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Leonardo da Vinci ✓
- Caravaggio
Who wrote the Harry Potter series?
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J.K. Rowling
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- C.S. Lewis
- J.K. Rowling ✓
- Philip Pullman
Which scientist is credited with discovering penicillin?
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Alexander Fleming
- Louis Pasteur
- Alexander Fleming ✓
- Joseph Lister
- Marie Curie
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
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Marie Curie
- Florence Nightingale
- Rosalind Franklin
- Marie Curie ✓
- Dorothy Hodgkin
Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and again in Chemistry in 1911.
Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Alexander Graham Bell ✓
- Guglielmo Marconi
Which British scientist is famous for the story of an apple falling and inspiring his theory of gravity?
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Isaac Newton
- Charles Darwin
- Michael Faraday
- Isaac Newton ✓
- Stephen Hawking
Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
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Roald Amundsen
- Ernest Shackleton
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Roald Amundsen ✓
- Edmund Hillary
Amundsen's Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911.
Which actress played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films?
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Emma Watson
- Emma Watson ✓
- Emma Stone
- Keira Knightley
- Helena Bonham Carter
About People Quizzes
Celebrities, world leaders, inventors, and athletes. Who did what, and what are they really called?
Every people question in the Shalose bank has been hand-checked for accuracy. Questions are categorised by difficulty so you can start easy and build to harder rounds, or use Mixed mode to shuffle all difficulties together for an unpredictable quiz experience.
- 50 questions across easy, medium and hard difficulty
- Multiple choice, true/false and number rounds included
- Works on any device — phone, tablet or desktop
- Free forever — no sign-up, no downloads, no ads
- Built-in timer (15s, 30s or 60s) to keep the pace up
- Automatic scorecard for up to four competing teams
Perfect for
- Pub quiz nights where people is a dedicated round
- Family game nights with players of mixed ages and knowledge levels
- School and workplace quiz events and team-building sessions
- Charity fundraisers and community events looking for ready-made content
- Solo practice if you are preparing for a competitive quiz league