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Were They Alive During This?
Were these people alive at the same time as these events?
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Last updated: October 30, 2021
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| First submitted | October 29, 2021 |
| Times taken | 14,546 |
| Average score | 73.3% |
| Rating | 4.89 |
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Was William Shakespeare alive during the Battle of Hastings?
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Battle of Hastings: 1066, Shakespeare: 1564 – 1616
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Was Richard Nixon alive during the First World War?
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Nixon: 1913 –1994, First World War: 1914 – 1918
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Was Leonardo da Vinci alive when Columbus landed in the Americas?
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Leonardo: 1452 – 1519, Columbus landing: 1492
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Was Adolf Hitler alive when Oscars were first awarded in Hollywood?
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Hitler: 1889 –1945, Academy Awards: 1929 (officially used "Oscars" in 1939)
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Was Julius Caesar alive during the construction of Machu Picchu?
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Caesar: 100 – 44 BCE, Machu Picchu: 1450s
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Was Queen Elizabeth II alive when the Titanic sank?
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Titanic sank: 1912, Elizabeth II: 1926 – present
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Was Charles Dickens alive during the American Civil War?
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Dickens: 1812 –1870, American Civil War: 1861 – 1865
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Was Jesus of Nazareth alive when Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii?
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Jesus: c. 4 BCE – 30 CE, Pompeii destroyed: 79
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Was Mahatma Gandhi alive when man landed on the moon?
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Gandhi: 1869 –1948, Moonlanding: 1969
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Was Britney Spears alive when the Berlin Wall fell?
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Britney: 1981 – present, Berlin Wall fell: 1989
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Was Napoleon alive when the Wright brothers first flew an airplane?
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Napoleon: 1769 – 1821, First airplane flight: 1903
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Was John Lennon alive when Hawaii became a US state?
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Lennon: 1940 –1980, Hawaii becomes state: 1959
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Was Chairman Mao alive during the Industrial Revolution?
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Industrial Revolution: 1760 – 1840, Chairman Mao: 1893 – 1976
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Was Martin Luther King Jr. alive when slavery was legal in the US?
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MLK: 1929 – 1968, Slavery abolished: 1865
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Were woolly mammoths alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built?
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Great Pyramid completed: 2560 BCE, mammoths go extinct: 2000 BCE
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The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.
Otherwise, if you're going by the myth of the bible, he ascended to heaven. Unless you think he's alive up there, which causes all kinds of theological-metaphysical problems.