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WorksheetsWOKA - END OF YEAR QUIZ
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
This is "not very smart" King George III. Who was his granddaughter? She created the British Empire?
Virginia
Victoria
Alexandra
Alberta
George III and his granddaughter, the future Queen, came from the House of Hanover. So it means their nationality was actually:
Dutch
Swedish
French
German
Why was Queen Victoria called "the grandmother of Europe"?
because she only wore old fashioned clothes
because she was giving presents to orphan children
because she lived 100 years
because her children and garnadchildren married into many royal families in Europe
Who said that? „I never in my life met with such a thorough and cunning lazybones.”
Prince Albert on his son Bertie (future king Edward VII)
Queen Victoria on her servant Abdul
Lord Marlborough on Queen Victoria
Abdul the Servant on Prince Albert
What is the name of a luxurious British cruise line?
Rolls-Royce
Whittard
Cunard
Earl Grey
What was Emmeline Pankhurst fighting for?
the right to vote for women
the ban of child-workers in factories
the ban of slavery in the USA
the stop of WWI
Abraham Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot stand". Which armed conflict was he referring to?
World War I
World War II
Civil War
The War for Independence
The African-American regiments fighting in the American Civil War were called:
The Buffalo Soldiers
The Coyote Soldiers
The Wolverine Soldiers
The Mustang Soldiers
What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?
the last battle of the Civil War?
the assasination of Abraham Lincoln
a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army
the biggest battle of Native tribes in American history
What was the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station where all the people coming to the US entered the country?is
Angel Island
Liberty Island
Lazarus Island
Ellis Island
The decade of the 1920s in the USA is called:
The Roaring Twenties
The Howling Twenties
The Whispering Twenties
TheGrowling Twenties
Who sings the song?
Aretha Franklin
Tina Turner
Greta Garbo
Diana Ross
Who sings the song?
The Beatles
The Doors
Simon and Garfunkel
Bee Gees
Who's song is that?
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Prince
The Harlem Renaissance was:
an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s
the great exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City in the 1920
the style of architecture used in in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City in the 1920s
the group of African-American scholars who studied Italian art
She created Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Her book sold in billions of copies.
P.D. James
Agatha Christie
Ellis Peters
Daphne du Maurier
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?
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
"Gone with the Wind"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
"The Mask of Virtue"
What was senator McCarthy so afraid of that he wanted all Americans to beware 24/7?
sudden fire
Chinese bugs eating crops
communism
smallpox
Who was Malcolm X?
a person who killed Martin Luther King because they disagreed on everything
the most famous African-American poet, first to win the Nobel Prize
the first African-American who was a candidate for President
an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement
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.
Woody Allen
Stanley Kubrick
Clint Eastwood
Francis Ford Coppola
