People from History Quiz

Answer the following as either true or false.

1. Lenin was born in Germany.

2. Lenin was a Fascist.

3. The Russian Revolution in 1917 helped Germany in its fight in World War Two.

4. In a Communist system the idea is to redistribute wealth so everyone is more or less equal.

5. Lenin lived a long life and ruled Russia for many years.

6. After the 1917 Revolution Russia became known as the USSR.

7. Lenin was a very religious man and highly supported the church.

8. Machiavelli was from Spain.

9. Machiavelli wrote a famous book called the King.

10. Machiavelli believed rulers should be loved not feared.

11. To be Machiavellian means to do whatever you need to do to get what you want.

12. Kim Jun Un of North Korea is a good example of a Machiavellian style leader.

History Quiz - Watson and Crick/Bill Gates

1. What did Watson and Crick discover? _________________

2. Approximately when was this discovered a. 100 years ago, b. 60 years ago c. 30 years
ago d. 200 years ago
3. What countries were Watson and Crick from? __________________ and
__________________
4. What is the name of the company Bill Gates started that made him rich?
_________________
5. True of False: Bill Bates invented the first DOS operating system that his company
licensed to IBM.
6. Bill Gates is known as a philanthropist. What does that mean? Clue, what is he doing
with his wealth?Name: ____________________ Class: ____________________
Quiz:

Yesterday we saw two important historical figures in student presentations. Were you
paying attention? Let’s see:

1. What cause or struggle did Margaret Sanger fight for?

2. 2. What invention in the 1960s greatly changed the lives of millions of women around
the world?

3. When Margaret Sanger was a young woman how were families in general different from
today?

4. Who were the Normans before they were known as the Normans ? Where did they
originally come from?
5. What language did the Normans introduce to England that had a huge impact on the
English language?

6. Last week we saw the issues of gun control in the USA. In a short paragraph describe
the situation in the USA with respect to gun ownership and gun violence. (5 marks for
writing a paragraph with proper English conventions being followed and some accurate
facts on the issue.

Quiz:
Yesterday we saw two important historical figures in student presentations. Were you
paying attention? Let’s see:

1. What cause or struggle did Margaret Sanger fight for?

2. What invention in the 1960s greatly changed the lives of millions of women around the
world?

3. When Margaret Sanger was a young woman how were families in general different from
today?

4. Who were the Normans before they were known as the Normans ? Where did they
originally come from?

5. What language did the Normans introduce to England that had a huge impact on the
English language?

6. Last week we saw the issues of gun control in the USA. In a short paragraph describe
the situation in the USA with respect to gun ownership and gun violence. (5 marks for
writing a paragraph with proper English conventions being followed and some accurate
facts on the issue.

Name: _______________________ Class: _______________

Match the historical figures we have seen in the last few classes to the description. Four
of the statements have mistakes in the details, although they still clearly identify the
person. Identify both the person and circle the four specific mistakes for mastering level.

1. _____________This person was a monk who worked with tomato plants to see how
they grew.

2. _____________Cows were very important in this person’s discovery of an end of small

pox.

3. _____________This person’s scientific discovery, related to later discoveries of DNA,

was not really appreciated until a few years after his death.

4. _____________Genetics is the study of how all living organisms inherit certain traits
from their “parents”.

5. _____________This person did not do well in school but would later rise up to be
president of the United Kingdom during World War 2.

6. _____________This person was a very talented person, artist, journalist, soldier and
politician, including winning the Oscar Prize in literature for his writing.

7. _____________This person took the puss from a girl infected with Cow Pox and put it
into a little girl. The girl became immune to deadly smallpox.

8. _____________The word vaccination comes from the root word for cow in Latin.

9. _____________This person led Great Britain during World War One.

10. _____________This person is responsible for perhaps saving more lives than anyone in
history due to his scientific discovery.

World History Quiz Name: ______________________ Class: ______________

Clearly Indicate with the full word True or False whether the following statements are
TRUE or FALSE. Correct the false part for 2 marks per false statement. Only five
statements contain false facts.

1. _____ The airplane was first flown in the United Kingdom.

2. _____ The inventors of the airplane were the Wright Brothers.

3. _____ Before building their airplane they experimented with motorcycles.

4. _____ The first flight was only about 2 football fields in length and a few seconds.

5. _____ Mao’s Communist Party was an extreme right political party.

6. _____ When Mao was young he read the works of people like Karl Marx.

7. _____ The Great Leap Backward was an effort to modernize China.

8. _____ Millions of people died from Mao’s policies, from starvation, execution and
other forms of persecution.

9. _____ Despite the heavy price the people paid, Mao is still revered, almost worshiped
in China.

10. _____ In the 1960s Mao started what was called the Cultural Revolution, an attempt to
get rid of everything from the past like religion.

11. ____ Experts believe Mao is one of the people responsible for the most death and
suffering in history, in third place behind Stalin and Hitler.