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WorksheetsOur Cornwall - Alverton KS1 History Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of these statements is TRUE about the Stone Age in Cornwall?
Tools were made from stone, bones, wood and antlers.
Flint was a very important type of stone.
Most people were nomadic hunter-gathers.
Hill forts were built for protection from enemies.
Tick ALL the statements that are TRUE about the Bronze Age in Cornwall.
Tools and weapons are made of bronze.
Tools and weapons are made from iron.
People live in small villages of round houses.
People begin to make textiles and trade overseas.
When did Christianity first arrive to Cornwall?
With the Vikings about 800 AD.
With St Piran about 450 AD.
With the Normans in 1066 AD
With the Romans in 43 AD.
What is the Domesday Book of 1086?
A book about England and Wales ordered by William the Conqueror.
A Roman book all about Britain.
A Viking book about England.
An Anglo-Saxon guide to England and Wales.
Penzance (Pensans) first appears in written records in 1284 but
what does the name 'Pensans' mean?
Nice Beach
Good Fishing
Holy Headland
Land of Tin
Tick ALL the statements that are TRUE about fishing in Newlyn.
Newlyn was a good place to land fish.
Pilchards were an important export.
Both men and women worked in the fishing trade.
Today Newlyn is still an important fishing port.
Tick all the statements that are TRUE about mining in and around Penzance.
There was a mine at Wherrytown in Penzance.
Most mining happened on the 'tin coast' between St Just and Pendeen.
Men, women and children all worked in mining.
Why did Cornish miners emigrate overseas from the 1860s?
Tick TWO reasons.
They wanted to live somewhere sunny.
Cornish mines began closing down.
They didn't like pasties.
Cornish miners had skills that were in demand around the world.
Who was Sir Humphry Davy?
An explorer who discovered America.
A man who wrote a diary during the Great Fire of London.
A scientist who invented the miners safety lamp.
A palaeontologist from Lyme Regis.
The train brought tourism to Penzance but what were seaside holidays like in the past? Tick all the statements that are TRUE.
Ladies swam from wheeled 'bathing machines'.
People liked to go on Jet Skis.
People wore long swimming costumes.
Walking on piers and promenades was popular.
