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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
The Stone Age lasted from approximately:
5000 - 1000 BC
2.5 million - 3000 BC
1500 - 450 AD
1000 - 500 AD
Who subdivided the Stone Age into Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods?
Charles Darwin
John Allen Brown
John Lubbock
De Mortillet
The Palaeolithic period is also called the:
New Stone Age
Old Stone Age
Middle Stone Age
Metal Age
Early humans during the Palaeolithic period survived mainly by:
Farming
Fishing only
Hunting and gathering
Trading
The earliest stone tools were discovered in:
Asia
Africa
Europe
South America
Which country pioneered large-scale silk production during the Middle Ages?
India
China
Japan
Greece
The Chinese developed which of the following technologies?
Gunpowder
Steam engines
Iron ships
Telegraph
Which Chinese invention was used to detect earthquakes?
Compass
Seismograph
Water clock
Gunpowder
The Church in Europe during the Middle Ages was responsible for:
Trade
Administration and education
Silk production
Road building
Which was the earliest established European university?
Paris
Oxford
Cambridge
Vienna
Which of the following came from China but was adapted in Europe?
Printing press
Horse-collar
Steamship
Telegraph
Who developed the 3 Laws of Motion?
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Aristotle
John Locke
The Industrial Revolution lasted from:
1450 - 1700
1750 - 1895
1600 - 1800
1900 - 2000
The "fly-shuttle" was used for:
Road building
Weaving
Farming
Mining
Known as the longest phase of human history which began approximately two million years ago and ended 40,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Mesolithic period
Neolithic period
Palaeolithic period
Bronze Age
Which transportation invention could pull 8 coal wagons at 5 mph?
Steamship
Puffing Billy
Steamboat
Carriage
The first communication device for long-distance messages was:
Telephone
Electric telegraph
Radio
Compass
The telephone was invented for:
Printing
Long-distance communication
Local trade
Writing
The Industrial Revolution replaced:
Machines with animals
Human and animal labor with machines
Stone with wood
Copper with tin
The Middle Ages lasted from
1000 - 1500 BC
450 - 1450 AD
2000 - 2500 AD
300 - 1000 BC
Which of the following was NOT a product traded by early Filipinos with China?
Beeswax
Colored glass beads
Computers
Cotton
Precolonial Filipinos wrote on:
Paper
Clay tablets
Bamboo and leaves
Silk
The Galleon Trade connected Manila with:
Singapore
Acapulco, Mexico
London, UK
Tokyo, Japan
Which group benefited most from the Galleon Trade as packers and middlemen?
Spanish friars
Chinese traders
Filipino peasants
Japanese merchants
During the American regime, which institution became the center of higher education in the Philippines?
Ateneo de Manila
University of Santo Tomas
University of the Philippines
Mapua Institute of Technology
The Bureau of Government Laboratories was reorganized as:
Bureau of Science
Bureau of Trade
Department of Education
National Research Council
The Japanese occupation led to:
Growth of science centers
Destruction of institutions and ruins of Manila
Increase of agricultural production
Establishment of DOST
The Commonwealth Constitution mandated:
Free trade with America
Scientific research and invention promotion
Military cooperation with Japan
Abolition of barangays
DOST is primarily responsible for:
Military defense
Science and technology policies, R&D projects
Political reforms
Trade relations with the U.S.
PCIERD focuses on:
Forestry
Industry, energy, emerging technologies
Transportation
Literature and arts
The __________ Age is characterized by tools made of stone, wood, and bone.
Bronze
Iron
Stone
The Lower Palaeolithic period marked the age of __________ evolution.
Plant
Animal
Human
Neanderthal man lived during the __________ Palaeolithic period.
Lower
Middle
Upper
Homo sapiens dominated the __________ Palaeolithic period.
Lower
Middle
Upper
The Mesolithic period is also known as the __________ Stone Age.
Old
Middle
New
The Neolithic Revolution introduced __________ and animal domestication.
Hunting
Fishing
Agriculture
The Bronze Age is known for combining __________ and tin to make bronze.
Iron
Silver
Copper
The Iron Age began around __________ BC.
2000
1750
1500
The Middle Ages were divided into the Dark Ages and the __________ Middle Ages.
Low
High
Late
The Chinese invention used for navigation is the __________.
Telescope
Compass
Sundial
The European feudal system was strongly influenced by the __________.
Army
Church
Merchants
The __________ developed the 3 Laws of Motion.
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
The Industrial Revolution began around the year __________.
1650
1700
1750
The "cotton gin" was invented for separating cotton from __________.
Soil
Leaves
Seeds
The first wireless communication device was the __________.
Telephone
Telegraph
Radio
Developed in California, United States in the late 1960s and led by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn.
Computer
Internet
Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed __________ as a research project in 1996.
Yahoo
What year was the domain google.com registered?
1995
1996
1997
Early Filipinos used what type of boat for coastal trade?
Vinta
Caracoa
Balangay
The National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) was established in year ______.
1925
1930
1933
