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Core Questions 1

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What percentage of the vote did the Socialists [who were against the Kaiser] usually get?

a)

10%

b)

20%

c)

30%

d)

50%

2.

How many Germans died because of lack of food during World War 1?

a)

250,000

b)

500,000

c)

750,000

d)

1,000,000

3.

How much did Germany pay under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

£1 billion

b)

£3.3 billion

c)

£4 billion

d)

£6.6 billion

4.

Who was the leader of the Spartacus League who was murdered during the uprising in Berlin in 1919?

a)

Rosa Luxembourg

b)

Dr Kapp

c)

Gustav Stressemann

d)

Ernst Rohm

5.

How many Germans were unemployed in 1932?

a)

1 million

b)

3 million

c)

4 million

d)

6 million

6.

300 members of which group were killed during the Night of the Long Knives?

a)

100

b)

200

c)

300

d)

400

7.

How did the Nazis create jobs?

a)

Making weapons like tanks

b)

Creating the National Parks

c)

Conscripted men into the army

d)

Sacking men from johs

8.

How many loudspeakers did the Nazis put up to broadcast propaganda?

a)

6000

b)

8000

c)

10000

d)

12000

9.

What the Nuremberg Laws [1935] ban?

a)

Jews taking part in the Olympics

b)

Jews marrying Aryans

c)

Jews from going to synagogue

d)

Jews working as doctors

10.

How many sets of leaflets did the White Rose Anti-Nazi group put out?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

6

d)

10

11.

About when was the microscope invented?

a)

1300

b)

1500

c)

1600

d)

1800

12.

Why couldn't blood transfusions be done before 1901?

a)

They thought blood was a humour till then

b)

They didn't know about blood groups

c)

They thought blood was a poison

d)

Religion banned it

13.

Who discovered germs caused illness?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

James Simpson

c)

Robert Koch

d)

Louis Pasteur

14.

What chance event lead to the discovery of penicillin?

a)

The mould landed on dishes of germs which had been accidentally left out.

b)

Fleming ordered the wrong dishes

c)

Fleming sneezed on a dish of mould

d)

Fleming hated his work and was about to quit but went to the wrong office and saw the mould

15.

What disease did cowpox gave people protection from deadly Smallpox?

a)

Cholera

b)

Cowpox

c)

The English Sweat

d)

Flu

16.

Which is a mistake Galen made?

a)

That blood was made in the liver and burnt up

b)

That the jaw bone was made of two bones

c)

The heart was a pump

d)

Blood came in groups

17.

John Snow proved what?

a)

Cholera spread by air

b)

Cholera spread by miasma

c)

Cholera was caused by an imbalance of the humours

d)

Cholera spread by water

18.

Whose use of chloroform during childbirth made it respectable?

a)

Queen Elizabeth

b)

Lady Tennyson

c)

Mrs Crachett

d)

Queen Victoria

19.

In what year was the NHS set up?

a)

1448

b)

1648

c)

1848

d)

1948

20.

Name a Medieval hospital founded by the Church?

a)

Scunthorpe General

b)

Holby City

c)

Leicester Royal Infirmary

d)

St Batholomew's

21.

What chance event helped the Normans win the Battle of Hastings?

a)

The Saxons charging down the hill after the Normans weakening the Shield Wall

b)

The Normans using archers to weaken the shield wall

c)

William taking his helmet off to show he was still alive

d)

The Saxons were tired after marching from Yorkshire

22.

The Anglo-Saxon church had a lot of simony. What is simony?

a)

Selling church land

b)

Marrying a priest

c)

Selling church offices

d)

Eating meat on Fridays

23.

In 1066 there were 60 monasteries. How many were there in 1135?

a)

60

b)

100

c)

250

d)

500

24.

What was the law which said if a Norman was killed everyone in a community was responsible?

a)

Murdrum

b)

Oath

c)

Trial by Ordeal

d)

Feckle by Order

25.

William replaced 6 Earls with how many Barons and Bishops?

a)

60

b)

120

c)

200

d)

500

26.

How old was Edward the Confessor's nephew, Edgar the Atheling?

a)

7

b)

14

c)

21

d)

28

27.

Why was building Lincoln Castle bad for the people of Lincoln?

a)

The Normans pulled down houses to make way for the castle.

b)

It meant they knocked down the cathedral

c)

Robbers wouldn't attack them

d)

The Welsh would now attack Lincolnshire

28.

What happened to Harold at the end of the Battle of Hastings?

a)

He beat William and won

b)

He escaped to Scotland

c)

He gave the throne to Edgar the Atheling

d)

He was killed

29.

Why didn't Harold have archers?

a)

He thought they were soft

b)

England didn't have archers

c)

Most archers came from the West Country and he didn't have time to gather them.

d)

Bows were no good against knights

30.

What event started the Korean War?

a)

Communist North Korea invaded South Korea

b)

South Korea invaded North Korea

c)

The USA invaded North Korea

d)

China invaded Korea

31.

After the Korean War American spending on Arms went from $12 billion to how much?

a)

$20 billion

b)

$30 billion

c)

$50 billion

d)

$60 bbillion

32.

How much money did the USA give to South Vietnam to fight the communists before 1964?

a)

$13

b)

$1.3 million

c)

$1.3 billion

d)

$13 billion

33.

How many Vietnamese women and children were killed at My Lai?

a)

None

b)

250

c)

500

d)

750

34.

Why was coverage of the news in Vietnam different to WW"?

a)

It was on TV

b)

It was on the radio

c)

No news was given

d)

It was in the cinema

35.

How many students were killed at the Kent State Massacre

a)

2

b)

4

c)

6

d)

8

36.

How many Vietcong fighters were killed during the Tet Offensive?

a)

100

b)

1,000

c)

10,000

d)

100,000

37.

Name one way South Vietnamese young men avoided being in the ARVN [South Vietnamese Army]?

a)

Pretending to be Vietcong

b)

Bribing officials

c)

Pretending to be Americans

d)

Pretending to be women

38.

How many acres of forest were destroyed during the Vietnam War?

a)

1 million acres

b)

2.2 million acres

c)

2.8 million acres

d)

3.4 million acres

39.

What was the Vietcong tactic 'hanging on to the Yankees belts'?

a)

Staying close so the US couldn't use artillery

b)

Waiste high trip wires

c)

Bobby trapping clothes

d)

Setting mines that exploded at waiste level

40.

What anaethetic did James Simpson discover?

a)

Carbolic Spray

b)

Opium

c)

Chloroform

d)

Alcohol