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WorksheetsKB Week 7
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 33mins
This Dutch explorer was mutinied by his crew & cast out to sea to die.
Henry Hudson
Marco Polo
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman during what famous era?
The Middle Ages
The Age of Heroes
Odysseus' Adventures
Great Greek Wars
An Arthurian tale written in verse, this character completes the title, "_____ and the Green Knight".
King Arthur
Sir Gawain
Sir Lancelot
The Lady of the Lake
This man was a Baptist minister & prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the 50-60s.
Al Sharpton
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jesse Jackson Sr.
This is the most common element in the Universe that exists as a diatomic gas.
Helium
Carbon
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Along with Plato, this man is known as the “Father of Western Philosophy.”
Socrates
Confucius
Aristotle
Lao Tzu
Who is quoted as saying, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”?
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Mary Shelley penned this classic novel in 1818 as an early example of science fiction.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dracula
Frankenstein
Brave New World
The “Space Race” was between which 2 countries?
Russia and United States
United States and China
Soviet Union and United States
China and Russia
Which of Plato's dialogues included a description of his ideal government?
Democracy
The Academy
Cynicism
Republic
This man was a black Muslim civil rights activist in the 50-60s.
Al Sharpton
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
Jesse Jackson Sr.
Arachne boasted that her _____ was better than Athena's, which cost her her life as a human.
Beauty
Weaving
Intelligence
Speed
This character gave Excalibur to King Arthur, gave Merlin his magic, & raised Sir Lancelot.
Sir Percival
Lady of the Lake
Sir Lancelot
Queen Guinevere
This element has a relatively low boiling point and is useful as a refrigerant.
Aluminum
Mercury
Oxygen
Nitrogen
This explorer discovered the lands of Jamaica, Central America, South America, and the Bahamas.
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortés
James Cook
In Charlotte's Web, what word does Charlotte spin above Wilbur’s pen at the county fair?
Winning
Humble
Some Pig
Terrific
This man became the first human being to travel into space.
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
Aristotle was tutored by which ancient Greek philosopher?
Socrates
Plato
John Locke
René Descartes
This man assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 at a motel in Memphis.
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
Nathuram Vinayak
John Wilkes Booth
This woman was the first human woman in Greek mythology.
Danaë
Pandora
Penelope
Helen of Troy
King Arthur's chief adviser.
Merlin
Sir Lancelot
Queen Guinevere
Sir Gawain
This element is the most abundant element in Earth’s atmosphere.
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Carbon Dioxide
Nitrogen
This explorer was the first person to successfully circumnavigate the globe.
Hernan Cortés
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
This is the main character from Pride and Prejudice, an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen.
Emma Woodhouse
Elizabeth Bennet
Geogiana Darcy
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Who was the Commander of Apollo 11?
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Buzz Aldrin
This philosopher was put on trial for “corrupting the youth” of Athens.
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Epicurus
This man was the leader of the Black Power movement & popularized the term “Black Power.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Jesse Jackson Sr.
Stokely Carmichael
The ever-faithful wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus.
Danaë
Penelope
Cassandra
Pandora
This character is given credit for creating the Round Table as well as Stonehenge.
Lady of the Lake
King Arthur
Morgan le Fay
Merlin
Mercury is a dense element commonly used in this instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
Barometer
Thermometer
Anemometer
Hygrometer
These explorers were commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore land west of the Mississippi.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Henry Hudson and James Cook
Henry Hudson and Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier
This novel by Harper Lee from 1960 involves racial injustice & the destruction of innocence.
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The name of the telescope launching in 2021 is:
Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE)
Hubble Space Telescope
Herschel Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
Plato was a student of this ancient philosopher.
Aristotle
Confucius
Socrates
Epicurus
This person was the first black woman elected to Congress.
Ida B. Wells
Shirley Chisholm
Ella Baker
Septima Poinsette Clark
This character made a tapestry of the gods’ offenses against mankind.
Actaeon
Cassiopeia
Arachne
Atlas
Best known as a traitorous figure, this man crowns himself king while King Arthur is away.
Mordred
Sir Lancelot
King Mark
King Pellinore
This element (plus an electric current) was responsible for the Hindenburg disaster.
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Helium
Nitrogen
This explorer was killed in battle in 1521 in the Philippines.
Christopher Columbus
Jacques Cartier
Hernan Cortés
Ferdinand Magellan
This dystopian text includes genetically modified citizens & an intelligence-based social hierarchy.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Giver by Lois Lowry
What country transported the first man and woman into space?
Russia
China
Soviet Union
United States
This philosopher is responsible for creating the 3 Means of Persuasion: Logos, Ethos, Pathos.
Plato
Aristotle
Confucius
Socrates
This element is the most common element found in Earth’s crust.
Iron
Aluminum
Oxygen
Carbon
This Italian explorer’s father worked for Kublai Khan.
Hernan Cortés
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Marco Polo
In this Charles Dickens book an orphan boy is quoted as saying, "Please, sir, I want some more"
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Hard Times
This novel is an allegory (a metaphor) for the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 .
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger,
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Author of Dracula.
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
This woman is the main female lead in The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Boo Radley
Jane Eyre
Ophelia, Duchess of Pemberly
Daisy Buchanan
In Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, what is the oldest sister's name?
Margaret March
Josephine March
Elizabeth March
Amy March
What is the name of Robinson's companion in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe?
Captain
The Spainard
Xury
Friday
In the story Moby Dick by Herman Melville, who is the chief mate on board Pequod?
Boo Radley
Starbuck
Guy Montag
Rockwell
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, how does Dorian destroy the portrait?
He sells his soul.
He takes a knife to the portrait.
He lights it on fire.
He uses paint thinner to erase the image.
Who wrote the classic Wuthering Heights?
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Scout Finch
To whom does the title of the novel Frankenstein refer?
The doctor
The monster
The narrator
The author
In George Orwell's 1984, the superstate that houses what is now Great Britain is called...
Oceania
Pangea
Atlantis
Moravia
Which of these things did Huckleberry Finn NOT do in Mark Twain's classic?
Dress up as a girl
Fake his own death
Free his foster family's slaves
Get kidnapped
What is the name of Mr. Darcy's estate in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Norland Park
Thornfield Hill
Sandringham House
Pemberly
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath centers on a family of tenant farmers during ______.
The Great Depression
The Civil Rights Movement
The Gold Rush
The Civil War
In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the protagonist Jean Valjean was imprisoned for this crime.
Murder
Theft
Kidnapping
Arson
What furniture piece provided a portal to Narnia in C.S. Lewis's iconic children's series?
A cabinet
A closet
A wardrobe
A cupboard
Which Shakespearean classic inspired Disney's The Lion King?
Othello
Hamlet
MacBeth
King Lear
In which Jane Austen novel does the Bennet family appear?
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensability
Emma
Mansfield Park
Which novel follows a group of British boys and their attempt to govern themselves whilst stranded on an uninhabited island?
Gulliver's Travels
Lost Boys
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
The Modern Prometheus is the subtitle of which famous horror novel?
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein
Dracula
Phantom of the Opera
Which Pulitzer-winning novel published in 1960 is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s?
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gone with the Wind
Brave New World
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by which author?
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
Aldous Huxley
Robert Louis Stevenson
