Famous Birthplaces Quiz
Einstein was born in Germany and Mozart in Austria, but Tolkien was born in South Africa and Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar. Each prompt names a famous person; tap the country, by today’s borders, where they were born.
Play this quiz →Free · no signup · 10 places · 100 seconds
How it works
A prompt appears at the top of the screen. Tap the country where they were born. Your first tap scores 3 points and a second try scores 2; miss twice and the answer is shown on the map before the next prompt. Ten prompts, 100 seconds, so a perfect round is 30 points.
It is also one of the categories in the daily geography challenge: one shared round a day, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep.
Every prompt in this quiz (47)
Each round draws ten of these famous people. The answers are on the map, not here.
Abraham Lincoln · president, Albert Einstein · scientist, Alexander Graham Bell · inventor, Anne Frank · diarist, Björk · singer, Bob Marley · singer, Chinua Achebe · author, Christopher Columbus · explorer, Cleopatra · queen, Confucius · philosopher, Cristiano Ronaldo · footballer, Ferdinand Magellan · explorer, Freddie Mercury · singer, Frédéric Chopin · composer, Frida Kahlo · painter, Gabriel García Márquez · author, Galileo Galilei · astronomer, Genghis Khan · ruler, Haile Selassie · emperor, Hans Christian Andersen · author, Hayao Miyazaki · animator, Ho Chi Minh · leader, Ibn Battuta · explorer, J. R. R. Tolkien · author, Kofi Annan · UN Secretary-General, Leo Tolstoy · author, Leonardo da Vinci · artist and inventor, Lionel Messi · footballer, Ludwig van Beethoven · composer, Mahatma Gandhi · independence leader, Marie Curie · scientist, Mother Teresa · nun and missionary, Napoleon Bonaparte · emperor, Nelson Mandela · president, Nikola Tesla · inventor, Pablo Neruda · poet, Pablo Picasso · painter, Pelé · footballer, Roald Amundsen · polar explorer, Rudyard Kipling · author, Simón Bolívar · liberator, Usain Bolt · sprinter, Vincent van Gogh · painter, Walt Disney · animator, Wangari Maathai · environmentalist, William Shakespeare · playwright, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · composer