Abeka Quiz 24/25 Grade 5 History - England and the British Isles

​ ​ (a)   wanted to purify the Church of England, and​ (b)   wanted to separate from the Church of England entirely.

• Pilgrims
• Puritans
• Separatists

The leader of the Roundheads, ______, won the war against the Cavaliers.

• Oliver Cromwell

• King Charles I

• William Shakespeare

• King James I

​📖 (a)   wrote one the most beloved books of all times, Pilgrim's Progress.

📖​ ​ (b)   , a great poet, wrote Paradise Lost, about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

• John Bunyan
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare

• Charles Dickens

______ discovered the law of gravity.

• Sir Isaac Newton

• William Harvey

• Francis Bacon

• Robert Hooke

Answer explanation

🔸Sir Isaac Newton: Discovered the law of gravity

🔸Francis Bacon: Devised the scientific method

🔸William Gilbert: Wrote the first English science book

🔸William Harvey: Discovered the circulation of blood in the body

🔸Robert Boyle: The "Father of Modern Chemistry"

🔸Edmund Halley: Astronomer who predicted Halley's Comet

🔸Robert Hooke: First man to see a living cell

______ sponsored the Authorized Version of the Bible translated in 1611.

• King Henry VIII

• King James I

• Queen Elizabeth I

• King Charles I

Answer explanation

This was the best-loved and most widely used English translation of God's Word ever produced.

Match the capitals to the correct country.

• Scotland

• London

• Northern Ireland

• Edinburgh

• Ireland

• Belfast

• Wales

• Dublin

• England

• Cardiff

Answer explanation

The period that brought a change to the world when machines were constructed on scientific principles to do work.

• Technological Advancement
• Industrial Revolution
• Digital Age
• Agricultural Revolution

______ perfected the steam engine.

• James Watt

• Taught evolution, false idea that man had descended from animals

• Florence Nightingale

• Started the modern nursing profession and opened the first school for nurses in England

• Winston Churchill

• Worked hard to restore Christian heritage of Great Britain by promoting family values and the private ownership of property

• Charles Darwin

• Leader of the British government during WWII

• Margaret Thatcher

• Perfected the steam engine

_________ promised at 11 years old, "I will be good," when she became queen and later ruled England for almost 64 years.

• Margaret Thatcher

• Queen Anne

• Queen Elizabeth

• Queen Victoria

​ (a)   wrote A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield.

​ (b)   wrote the children's classic, The Jungle Book.

• Charles Dickenson
• Rudyard Kipling
• Robert Browning