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History

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did Barbie doll appear for the first time?

a)

1939

b)

1949

c)

1959

d)

1969

2.

And what about crisps?

a)

1803

b)

1853

c)

1903

d)

1953

3.

What did Soviet Leader - Nikita Khrushchev - do on the United Nations meeting in 1960?

a)

He spat on one of the delegates.

b)

He fell asleep.

c)

He banged his shoe against the delegate-desk.

d)

He protested by sitting on the floor.

4.

A fashion for women to paint their toenails began in:

a)

1923

b)

1935

c)

1950

d)

1968

5.

First T-shirt appeared in:

a)

1933

b)

1942

c)

1954

d)

1963

6.

The first Polish park, near the Krasiński Palace, was created in:

a)

1477

b)

1577

c)

1677

d)

1777

7.

Hot-dog and hamburger appeared in:

a)

1900

b)

1910

c)

1940

d)

1950

8.

And jeans (approximately)?

a)

1815

b)

1850

c)

1905

d)

1929

9.

What about women's stockings?

a)

1938

b)

1949

c)

1954

d)

1959

10.

A microwave had its birth in:

a)

1933

b)

1947

c)

1957

d)

1971

11.

Supposedly, when Marie Antoinette - the wife of French king Louis XVI - heard that French peasants don't have bread to eat, she answered: "Let them eat..."

a)

ice cream

b)

biscuits

c)

cake

d)

hay

12.

Which Polish communist ruler famously said: "Władzy raz zdobytej nie oddamy nigdy!" (apparently he was wrong)?

a)

Bolesław Bierut

b)

Edward Gierek

c)

Władysław Gomułka

d)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

13.

Which American president got involved in a famous Watergate affair?

a)

Franklin Delano Roosvelt

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Bill Clinton

d)

Richard Nixon

14.

And which one admitted to smoking cannabis (although - as he declared - he didn't inhale)?

a)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Bill Clinton

d)

Richard Nixon

15.

As a young man, Adolf Hitler wanted to become:

a)

a painter

b)

a musician

c)

a writer

d)

a doctor

16.

And Joseph Stalin in his youth aimed to be a:

a)

lawyer

b)

priest

c)

teacher

d)

philosopher

17.

The last time the British Isles were successfully invaded by a foreign power was in:

a)

1066

b)

1215

c)

1485

d)

1688

18.

Supposedly, on his deathbed a priest asked him whether he renounces Devil - to which he replied “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."" Which famous French philosopher was that?

a)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

b)

Denis Diderot

c)

Voltaire

d)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert