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WOKA - END OF YEAR QUIZ

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is "not very smart" King George III. Who was his granddaughter? She created the British Empire?

a)

Virginia

b)

Victoria

c)

Alexandra

d)

Alberta

2.

George III and his granddaughter, the future Queen, came from the House of Hanover. So it means their nationality was actually:

a)

Dutch

b)

Swedish

c)

French

d)

German

3.

Why was Queen Victoria called "the grandmother of Europe"?

a)

because she only wore old fashioned clothes

b)

because she was giving presents to orphan children

c)

because she lived 100 years

d)

because her children and garnadchildren married into many royal families in Europe

4.

Who said that? „I never in my life met with such a thorough and cunning lazybones.”

a)

Prince Albert on his son Bertie (future king Edward VII)

b)

Queen Victoria on her servant Abdul

c)

Lord Marlborough on Queen Victoria

d)

Abdul the Servant on Prince Albert

5.

What is the name of a luxurious British cruise line?

a)

Rolls-Royce

b)

Whittard

c)

Cunard

d)

Earl Grey

6.

What was Emmeline Pankhurst fighting for?

a)

the right to vote for women

b)

the ban of child-workers in factories

c)

the ban of slavery in the USA

d)

the stop of WWI

7.

Abraham Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot stand". Which armed conflict was he referring to?

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

Civil War

d)

The War for Independence

8.

The African-American regiments fighting in the American Civil War were called:

a)

The Buffalo Soldiers

b)

The Coyote Soldiers

c)

The Wolverine Soldiers

d)

The Mustang Soldiers

9.

What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?

a)

the last battle of the Civil War?

b)

the assasination of Abraham Lincoln

c)

a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army

d)

the biggest battle of Native tribes in American history

10.

What was the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station where all the people coming to the US entered the country?is

a)

Angel Island

b)

Liberty Island

c)

Lazarus Island

d)

Ellis Island

11.

The decade of the 1920s in the USA is called:

a)

The Roaring Twenties

b)

The Howling Twenties

c)

The Whispering Twenties

d)

TheGrowling Twenties

12.

Who sings the song?

a)

Aretha Franklin

b)

Tina Turner

c)

Greta Garbo

d)

Diana Ross

13.

Who sings the song?

a)

The Beatles

b)

The Doors

c)

Simon and Garfunkel

d)

Bee Gees

14.

Who's song is that?

a)

The Rolling Stones

b)

Led Zeppelin

c)

David Bowie

d)

Prince

15.

The Harlem Renaissance was:

a)

an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s

b)

the great exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City in the 1920

c)

the style of architecture used in in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City in the 1920s

d)

the group of African-American scholars who studied Italian art

16.

She created Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Her book sold in billions of copies.

a)

P.D. James

b)

Agatha Christie

c)

Ellis Peters

d)

Daphne du Maurier

17.

Vivien Leigh is most famous for her role of Scarlett O'Hara in an epic movie about the American Civil War. What is the title of the movie?

a)

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"

b)

"Gone with the Wind"

c)

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

d)

"The Mask of Virtue"

18.

What was senator McCarthy so afraid of that he wanted all Americans to beware 24/7?

a)

sudden fire

b)

Chinese bugs eating crops

c)

communism

d)

smallpox

19.

Who was Malcolm X?

a)

a person who killed Martin Luther King because they disagreed on everything

b)

the most famous African-American poet, first to win the Nobel Prize

c)

the first African-American who was a candidate for President

d)

an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement

20.

He is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian. His movies are sometimes called "intelectual comedies". Many of them are set in New York.

a)

Woody Allen

b)

Stanley Kubrick

c)

Clint Eastwood

d)

Francis Ford Coppola