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World History

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of the ancient world wonders, the “Hanging Gardens,” was found in which city?

a)

Babylon

b)

Damascus

c)

Beirut

d)

Cairo

2.

Greenland was a colony of which country until 1981?

a)

Iceland

b)

Denmark

c)

Finland

d)

Norway

3.

How many days in a week were there in ancient Roman times?

a)

7

b)

9

c)

8

d)

10

4.

In 1927, who became the first man to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Jimmy Doolittle

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Bob Hoover

5.

What was the family name of the Russian rulers from the 17th century until the 1917 revolution?

a)

Romanov

b)

Pavlov

c)

Dostoyevsky

d)

Pushkin

6.

The ancient Egyptians worshiped dung beetle?

a)

The scarab

b)

The ladybug

c)

The darkling beetle

d)

The weevil

7.

How did Alexander the Great solve the puzzle of the Gordion knot?

a)

He spent an hour untying it

b)

He cut it with a sword

c)

He had his wife do it

d)

He gave up

8.

Who was the first man to walk on the moon

a)

Buzz Aldrin

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Buzz Lightyear

d)

John Glenn

9.

Which infamous prison was stormed on July 14th, 1789?

a)

The Bastille in Paris

b)

Alcatraz

c)

Sing Sing Prison

d)

Shawshank

10.

Where were the first modern Olympics held?

a)

Berlin, Germany

b)

Queretaro, Mexico

c)

Athens, Greece

d)

London, England

11.

Roald Amundsen led a successful expedition to what location in 1911?

a)

The South Pole

b)

The North Pole

c)

The Amazon

d)

The center of the Earth

12.

The Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and which other ancient Greek state?

a)

Sparta

b)

Thebes

c)

Corinth

d)

Fremont

13.

Who built the first car in America?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Elon Musk

d)

Nikola Tesla

14.

What is the name of the first human civilization?

a)

Mesopotamian

b)

Egyptian

c)

Indian

d)

Nubian

15.

Who is known for running through the streets crying Eureka?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Archimedes

d)

Democritus

16.

The Incan Empire is located in which modern-day country?

a)

Peru

b)

Ecuador

c)

Mexico

d)

Bolivia

17.

Who painted the mural of “The Last Supper”?

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Raphael

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Donatello

18.

Who was the first Western explorer to reach China?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Marco Polo

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Francis Drake

19.

Eva Peron was the first lady of what country?

a)

Argentina

b)

Chile

c)

Brazil

d)

Uruguay

20.

Which civilization was centered around the city of Tenochtitlan?

a)

Aztec

b)

Mayan

c)

Inka

d)

Nasca

21.

Which country did England send convicts to between 1788 and 1868?

a)

Australia

b)

Moldova

c)

Mexico

d)

Brazil

22.

What is the name of the island Napoleon was exiled to?

a)

Elba

b)

Cuba

c)

Crete

d)

Madagascar

23.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?

a)

England

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

Brazil

24.

What is the smallest country in the world?

a)

Vatican City

b)

Luxemburg

c)

San Marino

d)

Mali

25.

What country won the first football World Cup?

a)

Uruguay

b)

Brazil

c)

Mexico

d)

Sri Lanka