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WorksheetsNational History Bee Test Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
American billionaire Andrew Carnegie made most of his fortune by building a company that produced and sold what commodity?
a)
coal
b)
steel
c)
copper
d)
oil
2.
In the 16th Century, the Ottomans ruled a vast empire from what modern-day nation?
a)
Turkey
b)
France
c)
Russia
d)
Spain
3.
Which of these regions was united by the Mauryan Empire in the 4th Century BC?
a)
China
b)
India
c)
Egypt
d)
West Africa
4.
Free Soil, Whig, Know-Nothing and Bull Moose are all...
a)
Cities in California
b)
Baseball teams
c)
U.S. political parties
d)
Civil Rights protest groups
5.
What name is given to the natural disaster that occurred in the Great Plains in the 1930s that saw the destruction of millions of acres of farmland?
a)
Dirt Drought
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Great Burn
d)
Crop Crash
6.
King Richard I and Saladin fought in what religious conflict?
a)
100 Years War
b)
Third Crusade
c)
English Civil War
d)
Second Opium War
7.
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees which right?
a)
Right to bear arms
b)
Right to a jury trial
c)
Right to free speech
d)
Right to privacy
8.
In 1955, Rosa Parks protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in what city?
a)
Montgomery
b)
Charlotte
c)
Nashville
d)
Atlanta
9.
The treaty that ended World War I was signed at what palace built by French king Louis XIV?
a)
Bastille
b)
Versailles
c)
Chartres
d)
Amiens
10.
What it the traditional religion of Japan?
a)
Shinto
b)
Islam
c)
Hinduism
d)
Buddhism
11.
"Griots" are storytellers that preserve the oral history of what region?
a)
Australia
b)
Central America
c)
West Africa
d)
China
12.
What term is used to describe the honorable code of behavior practiced by samurai?
a)
Seppuku
b)
Basho
c)
Bushido
d)
Naginata
13.
What US state was a kingdom ruled by Queen Liliuokalani before it was annexed in 1898?
a)
Texas
b)
Alaksa
c)
Vermont
d)
Hawaii
14.
Woodblock printing, gunpowder and the compass were all innovations of what ancient society?
a)
China
b)
India
c)
Japan
d)
Sumer
15.
Which U.S. president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?
a)
John Kennedy
b)
Gerald Form
c)
Ronald Reagan
d)
Richard Nixon
16.
What term describes the period in American history immediately following the Civil War?
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Cold War
d)
Roaring 20's
17.
Cyrus McCormick and John Deere were inventors who revolutionized which industry?
a)
Railroads
b)
Textile Mills
c)
Automobile
d)
Farming
18.
In what year did Genghis Khan unite the Mongols?
a)
1206 AD
b)
1806 AD
c)
206 AD
d)
1806 BC
19.
Siddhartha Gautama is the founder of what religion?
a)
Islam
b)
Christianity
c)
Shinto
d)
Buddhism
20.
Which of these religions is NOT polytheistic?
a)
Hinduism
b)
Judaism
c)
Shinto
d)
Ancient Greek beliefs
21.
Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong and Jacob Lawrence are all associated with what African-American cultural movement in the 1920s?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Brooklyn Renaissance
c)
Queens Renaissance
d)
Wall Street Renaissance
22.
Which of these best describes the "Rosetta Stone"?
a)
Tool used to aid in language translation
b)
Weapon used in Medieval Europe
c)
A religious object used in the practice of Buddhism
d)
A device used in ancient surgeries
23.
"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out"
This line come from a set of laws written in 1772 BC by a ruler of which of the following:
This line come from a set of laws written in 1772 BC by a ruler of which of the following:
a)
China
b)
Egypt
c)
India
d)
Babylon
24.
The West African kingdom of Ghana grew wealthy primarily by trading what commodity for gold?
a)
Iron
b)
Salt
c)
Corn
d)
Cotton
25.
Which of these civilizations developed one of the world's first alphabets and traded an expensive purple dye?
a)
Vikings
b)
Incas
c)
Aborigines
d)
Phoenicians
26.
Homer was a poet who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". What ancient war did he chronicle?
a)
100 Years War
b)
Roman Civil War
c)
Trojan War
d)
Persian Wars
27.
Who was president of the United States when World War I began?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Grover Cleveland
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
James Madison
28.
"Yellow Journalism" played a major role in the start of what turn-of-the-century war?
a)
War of 1812
b)
Civil War
c)
Spanish American War
d)
World War II
29.
Which of these was a direct consequence of the 1676 Bacon's Rebellion in colonial Virginia?
a)
An increased income tax
b)
Separation of church and state
c)
The election of George Washington
d)
An increase in the use of slave labor
30.
The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg took place in which U.S. State?
a)
California
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
South Carolina
d)
Alabama
31.
What term is used to refer to the leaders of Ancient Egypt?
a)
Sufi
b)
Pharaoh
c)
Sultan
d)
Papyrus
32.
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
a)
Vladmir Lenin
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Karl Marx
d)
Nikita Khrushchev
33.
Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro conquered what South American civilization?
a)
Incan
b)
Aztec
c)
Cherokee
d)
Olmec
34.
"Populism" was a 19th century protest movement amongst rural Westerners engaged in what profession?
a)
Education
b)
Agriculture
c)
Journalism
d)
Transporation
35.
Which of these terms refers to the system that divided Indian society into distinct social groups?
a)
Sudra
b)
Caste
c)
Brahmin
d)
Sanskrit
36.
Which of these groups was most directly affected by the "Trail of Tears"
a)
Native Americans
b)
Immigrants from Mexico
c)
Labor unions
d)
African Americans
37.
"Shoguns" were military rulers in what country?
a)
China
b)
Mongolia
c)
Japan
d)
Korea
38.
The "Reign of Terror" was a part of what larger conflict?
a)
U.S. Civil War
b)
World War I
c)
French Revolution
d)
Thirty Years War
39.
What snake was used to describe Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War?
a)
Rattlesnakes
b)
Copperheads
c)
Pythons
d)
Cobras
40.
What was the name of the series of economic recovery programs implemented by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression?
a)
Fair Deal
b)
New Deal
c)
Affordable Deal
d)
Happy Deal
41.
Which of these was not an important European explorer?
a)
Dante Alighieri
b)
Ferdinand Magellan
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Hernan Cortez
42.
American inventor Robert Fulton developed the first successful...
a)
electric light bulb
b)
steamboat
c)
movie camera
d)
sewing machine
43.
Frederick Douglass was best known for speaking out against which of these
a)
The Constitution
b)
Slavery
c)
Civil Rights
d)
Labor unions
44.
Which of these is the year that the French and Indian War began?
a)
1684
b)
1724
c)
1754
d)
1794
45.
Minarets, Mihrabs and Qibla Walls are features of what type of religious building?
a)
Mosques
b)
Egyptian Pyramids
c)
Cathedrals
d)
Jewish Temples
46.
During the War of 1812, the United States fought against which European nation?
a)
Germany
b)
Great Britain
c)
Poland
d)
Spain
47.
What was the most common spoken language in the Roman Empire?
a)
Sanskrit
b)
Aramatic
c)
Latin
d)
Hebrew
48.
In the 1966 case of Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that what must happen whenever a person is arrested?
a)
the accused must be read the rights
b)
the accused must be photographed
c)
the accused must be fingerprinted
d)
the accused must speak with a lawyer
49.
The House of Lords and the House of Commons are parts of what British legislative body?
a)
Congress
b)
Cabinet
c)
The Board
d)
Parliament
50.
The Federalist Papers were written to encourage which of the following
a)
Ratification of the Constitution
b)
U.S. entry into World War II
c)
Stricter child labor laws
d)
Annexation of California
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