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WorksheetsCore Questions 1
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
What percentage of the vote did the Socialists [who were against the Kaiser] usually get?
10%
20%
30%
50%
How many Germans died because of lack of food during World War 1?
250,000
500,000
750,000
1,000,000
How much did Germany pay under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
£1 billion
£3.3 billion
£4 billion
£6.6 billion
Who was the leader of the Spartacus League who was murdered during the uprising in Berlin in 1919?
Rosa Luxembourg
Dr Kapp
Gustav Stressemann
Ernst Rohm
How many Germans were unemployed in 1932?
1 million
3 million
4 million
6 million
300 members of which group were killed during the Night of the Long Knives?
100
200
300
400
How did the Nazis create jobs?
Making weapons like tanks
Creating the National Parks
Conscripted men into the army
Sacking men from johs
How many loudspeakers did the Nazis put up to broadcast propaganda?
6000
8000
10000
12000
What the Nuremberg Laws [1935] ban?
Jews taking part in the Olympics
Jews marrying Aryans
Jews from going to synagogue
Jews working as doctors
How many sets of leaflets did the White Rose Anti-Nazi group put out?
1
3
6
10
About when was the microscope invented?
1300
1500
1600
1800
Why couldn't blood transfusions be done before 1901?
They thought blood was a humour till then
They didn't know about blood groups
They thought blood was a poison
Religion banned it
Who discovered germs caused illness?
Joseph Lister
James Simpson
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
What chance event lead to the discovery of penicillin?
The mould landed on dishes of germs which had been accidentally left out.
Fleming ordered the wrong dishes
Fleming sneezed on a dish of mould
Fleming hated his work and was about to quit but went to the wrong office and saw the mould
What disease did cowpox gave people protection from deadly Smallpox?
Cholera
Cowpox
The English Sweat
Flu
Which is a mistake Galen made?
That blood was made in the liver and burnt up
That the jaw bone was made of two bones
The heart was a pump
Blood came in groups
John Snow proved what?
Cholera spread by air
Cholera spread by miasma
Cholera was caused by an imbalance of the humours
Cholera spread by water
Whose use of chloroform during childbirth made it respectable?
Queen Elizabeth
Lady Tennyson
Mrs Crachett
Queen Victoria
In what year was the NHS set up?
1448
1648
1848
1948
Name a Medieval hospital founded by the Church?
Scunthorpe General
Holby City
Leicester Royal Infirmary
St Batholomew's
What chance event helped the Normans win the Battle of Hastings?
The Saxons charging down the hill after the Normans weakening the Shield Wall
The Normans using archers to weaken the shield wall
William taking his helmet off to show he was still alive
The Saxons were tired after marching from Yorkshire
The Anglo-Saxon church had a lot of simony. What is simony?
Selling church land
Marrying a priest
Selling church offices
Eating meat on Fridays
In 1066 there were 60 monasteries. How many were there in 1135?
60
100
250
500
What was the law which said if a Norman was killed everyone in a community was responsible?
Murdrum
Oath
Trial by Ordeal
Feckle by Order
William replaced 6 Earls with how many Barons and Bishops?
60
120
200
500
How old was Edward the Confessor's nephew, Edgar the Atheling?
7
14
21
28
Why was building Lincoln Castle bad for the people of Lincoln?
The Normans pulled down houses to make way for the castle.
It meant they knocked down the cathedral
Robbers wouldn't attack them
The Welsh would now attack Lincolnshire
What happened to Harold at the end of the Battle of Hastings?
He beat William and won
He escaped to Scotland
He gave the throne to Edgar the Atheling
He was killed
Why didn't Harold have archers?
He thought they were soft
England didn't have archers
Most archers came from the West Country and he didn't have time to gather them.
Bows were no good against knights
What event started the Korean War?
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea
South Korea invaded North Korea
The USA invaded North Korea
China invaded Korea
After the Korean War American spending on Arms went from $12 billion to how much?
$20 billion
$30 billion
$50 billion
$60 bbillion
How much money did the USA give to South Vietnam to fight the communists before 1964?
$13
$1.3 million
$1.3 billion
$13 billion
How many Vietnamese women and children were killed at My Lai?
None
250
500
750
Why was coverage of the news in Vietnam different to WW"?
It was on TV
It was on the radio
No news was given
It was in the cinema
How many students were killed at the Kent State Massacre
2
4
6
8
How many Vietcong fighters were killed during the Tet Offensive?
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
Name one way South Vietnamese young men avoided being in the ARVN [South Vietnamese Army]?
Pretending to be Vietcong
Bribing officials
Pretending to be Americans
Pretending to be women
How many acres of forest were destroyed during the Vietnam War?
1 million acres
2.2 million acres
2.8 million acres
3.4 million acres
What was the Vietcong tactic 'hanging on to the Yankees belts'?
Staying close so the US couldn't use artillery
Waiste high trip wires
Bobby trapping clothes
Setting mines that exploded at waiste level
What anaethetic did James Simpson discover?
Carbolic Spray
Opium
Chloroform
Alcohol
