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Science, History and Geography

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Great Fire of London start?

a)

September 2, 1366

b)

September 2, 1666

c)

September 2, 1466

d)

September 2, 1566

2.
On what street did the Great Fire start?
a)
Fleet Street
b)
Pudding Street
c)
Lombard Street
d)
Fetter Lane
3.

How did the Great Fire start?

a)

Someone let off a firework

b)

There was an attack.

c)

Someone in a bakery forgot to put a fire out in their oven

d)

It remains a mystery to this day

4.

How do we know where the Great Fire started?

a)

Through the study of a map

b)

The London Gazette Newspaper

c)

Samuel Pepy's diaries

d)

Portrait of King Charles II

5.
What contributed to the rapid spreading of the Great Fire?
a)
All of these
b)
The summer had been very hot and dry.
c)
The  wooden houses were tightly-packed.
d)
Strong winds from the east.
6.

What famous landmark was destroyed by the fire?

a)

Whitehall Palace

b)

St. Paul's Cathedral

c)

Tower of London

d)

Tower Bridge

7.
King Charles II did nothing to help stop the fire from spreading.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
How long did the Great Fire Last?
a)
All night-it had ended by the morning.
b)
Four days.
c)
A week.
d)
A month.
9.
Guess. How many people are believed to have died as a result of the Great Fire?
a)
714,003
b)
6
c)
211
d)
The number of deaths is unknown.
10.

What is the name of the most famous river in London?

a)

River Thames

b)

Trent River

c)

Tyne River

d)

The Mercy

11.
8. What did the firefighters do to stop the fire?
a)
They blew up the houses and shops one street away from the fire
b)
They chased the rats into the fire
c)
They threw buckets of sand on the fire
d)
They pumped water from the River Thames
12.
When is Bonfire Night?
a)
on the 31st of December
b)
on the 5th of November
c)
on the 15th of November
d)
on the 31st of October
13.
What did Guy Fawkes plan to blow up?
a)
Buckingham Palace
b)
Westimnster Abbey
c)
the Houses of Parliament
d)
London Eye
14.
Which king did Guy Fawkes want to kill?
a)
James I
b)
Henry II
c)
Charles I
d)
Arthur
15.
When was the gunpowder plot?
a)
1655
b)
1555
c)
1505
d)
1605
16.

What does this picture represent?

a)

bonfire

b)

gunpowder

c)

barrel

d)

cellar

17.

What does this picture represent?

a)

gunpowder

b)

cellar

c)

bonfire

d)

guy

18.

This is a _________

a)

cellar

b)

barrel

c)

guy

d)

fireworks

19.
a)
guy
b)
cellar
c)
Houses of Parliament
d)
fireworks
20.

When did the Gunpowder plot take place?

a)

5 November 1605

b)

4 November 1605

c)

5 December 1605

d)

5 November 1603

21.

Who were the plotters?

a)

Protestants

b)

Catholics

c)

Soldiers

d)

Foreign mercenaries

22.

Who was the leader of the plotters?

a)

Guy Fawkes

b)

King James I

c)

Robert Catesby

d)

Lord Monteagle

23.

How many barrels of Gunpowder where found underneath Parliament?

a)

35

b)

36

c)

37

d)

34

24.

How was the plot revealed?

a)

The guards found Guy Fawkes accidentally.

b)

An anonymous letter was sent to Lord Monteagle.

c)

Lord Monteagle was a conspirator and he confessed.

d)

Robert Cecil was a conspirator and he confessed.

25.

How did King James find the names of the plotters?

a)

By torturing Guy Fawkes, King James' government learnt the names and identities of his co-conspirators.

b)

It was written in a letter.

c)

The guards found all of them in the cellar.

d)

They all confessed.

26.

What happened to the plotters?

a)

They were put in prison.

b)

They were let go.

c)

The English authorities killed or captured most of them. The ones who were captured were sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered.

d)

They broke their necks.

27.
What catastrophe struck Londoners in 1665
a)
the Great Plague
b)
the Great Fire
c)
the Great Rain
d)
the Great Draught
28.

In which year did the Great Plague happen?

a)

1663

b)

1664

c)

1665

d)

1666

29.

'An infectious disease which spreads widely, sometimes across different countries' is what?

a)

Epidemic

b)

Contagious

c)

Bubonic

d)

Pneumonic

30.

What job did this person have?

a)

Farmer

b)

Bishop

c)

Pope

d)

Doctor

31.

What caused the Great Plague?

a)

Dogs and cats

b)

Fleas on rats from Asia.

c)

Bats from China.

32.

The disease spread quickly because

a)

a lot of people travelled abroad.

b)

rats were quick

c)

towns were very dirty.

33.
Pressure is the effect of
a)
the weight of all the air above pressing down
b)
water vapor in the atmosphere
c)
greenhouse gases
d)
solar radiation
34.
This instrument measures air pressure
a)
thermometer
b)
anemometer
c)
barometer
d)
wind vane
35.
What does the air consist of?
a)
molecules
b)
helium
c)
density
d)
weather
36.
What direction do the molecules go in the air?
a)
everywhere
b)
no where
c)
there are no molecules
d)
downward
37.
As you climb up a mountain what happens to the air pressure?
a)
decreases
b)
increases
c)
stays the same
38.
Winds are caused by differences in
a)
precipitation
b)
humidity
c)
air pressure
d)
turbulence
39.

Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Rosalind Franklin

40.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

41.
Created the periodic table of elements.
a)
Marie Curie
b)
Niels Bohr
c)
Enrico Fermi
d)
Dmitri Mendeleev
42.

This scientist coined the term "radioactivity".

a)

Richard Feynman

b)

Marcello Malpighi

c)

Neils Bohr

d)

Marie Curie

43.
Inventor of the first practical telephone.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Steve Jobs
c)
James Clerk Maxwell
d)
Pierre Curie
44.

Who invented the first light bulb?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Wright brothers

d)

Charles Morse

45.
A Paleontologist studies ______
a)
plants
b)
insects
c)
fossils
d)
animals
46.

Who invented the first automobile?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Nathan Toyota

47.

Botanists study ________

a)

fossils

b)

plants

c)

insects

d)

animals

48.

_____________ study animals?

a)

Paleontologists

b)

Zoologists

c)

Entomologists

d)

Botanists

49.
Who invented the first airplane?
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Wright brothers
c)
Thomas Edison
50.
Who invented the lightning rod?
a)
Benjamin Franklin
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Alexander Bell

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