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Nineweeks history

Total questions: 65

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Is the record of what has happened to mankind:

a)
future events
b)
mythology
c)
geography
d)
history
2.

The largest canyon in the United States is the

a)
Grand Canyon
b)
Antelope Canyon
c)
Yosemite Valley
d)
Zion Canyon
3.

He was a Virginian who gained valuable military experience during the French and Indian War and had the reputation for being brave and wise

a)

Young Thomas Jefferson

b)

Young James Madison

c)

Young Robert E. Lee

d)

Young George Washington

4.

Were the Indians who joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving

a)
No, the Pilgrims celebrated alone without any Native Americans.
b)
Yes, the Sioux tribe joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving.
c)
No, only the English settlers attended the first Thanksgiving.
d)
Yes, the Wampanoag tribe joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving.
5.

Zimmermann Note, which war?

a)
World War II
b)
Vietnam War
c)
Korean War
d)
World War I
6.

The Emancipation Proclamation, which war?

a)

Civil War

b)
World War I
c)

Revolutionary War

d)
World War II
7.

V-E Day, which war?

a)
Korean War
b)
Vietnam War
c)
World War I
d)
World War II
8.

Battle of Gettysburg, which war?

a)
Vietnam War
b)
World War II
c)
World War I
d)

Civil War

9.

"Remember the Maine", which war?

a)
Spanish-American War
b)
Vietnam War
c)
World War I
d)
Korean War
10.

Capital of Canada

a)
Vancouver
b)
Montreal
c)
Toronto
d)
Ottawa
11.

The Nazi leader of Germany during World War II

a)
Joseph Goebbels
b)
Hermann Göring
c)
Heinrich Himmler
d)
Adolf Hitler
12.

A person who wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values

a)
Progressive
b)
Revolutionary
c)
Modernist
d)

Conservative

13.

An Islamic terrorist group responsible for the attacks including the attack of September 11th, 2001

a)
ISIS
b)
Boko Haram
c)
Hezbollah
d)
Al-Qaeda
14.

The "Angel of the Battlefield" and founder of the American Red Cross

a)
Clara Barton
b)
Mary Eliza Mahoney
c)
Dorothea Dix
d)
Florence Nightingale
15.

The legislation that guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities was the

a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Fair Housing Act of 1968
c)
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
16.

The major mountain range in South America is the

a)
Rocky Mountains
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Himalayas
d)
Andes
17.

The President during the Cuban Missile Crisis was

a)
Richard Nixon
b)
Lyndon B. Johnson
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
John F. Kennedy
18.

The first woman justice was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by

a)
George W. Bush
b)
Ronald Reagan
c)
Bill Clinton
d)
Barack Obama
19.

The Fascist leader of Italy during World War II

a)
Benito Mussolini
b)
Francisco Franco
c)
Adolf Hitler
d)
Joseph Stalin
20.

The black educator who served as Social Advisor of Minority Affairs to Franklin D Roosevelt was

a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Mary McLeod Bethune
21.

The first President ever to resign from office was

a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Richard Nixon
d)
George Washington
22.

Is the home of the world's largest tropical rain forest

a)

Amazon River Basin

b)
Congo Rainforest
c)
Sundarbans
d)
Taiga Forest
23.

The explorer who led the expedition which discovered the North Pole

a)
Ernest Shackleton
b)
Roald Amundsen
c)
Robert Peary
d)
Christopher Columbus
24.

The "George Washington of South America"

a)
Simón Bolívar
b)
Hugo Chávez
c)
Fidel Castro
d)
José de San Martín
25.

The inventor of the mechanical reaper

a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Cyrus McCormick
d)
Henry Ford
26.

The highest navigable lake in South America

a)
Lake Titicaca
b)

Lake Coatepeque

c)
Lake Maracaibo
d)
Lake Poopó
27.

The commander of the Allied Powers in World War II who later became president

a)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
b)
Harry S. Truman
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
George S. Patton
28.

The black educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute

a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Marcus Garvey
29.

The capital of Brazil

a)
Brasília
b)
Salvador
c)
São Paulo
d)
Rio de Janeiro
30.

Is the plain or hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by tall grasses

a)

Prairie

b)
Mountain
c)
Forest
d)
Desert
31.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor, which war?

a)
World War I
b)
Vietnam War
c)
Korean War
d)
World War II
32.

The first permanent settlement in the New World was

a)
Plymouth
b)
Roanoke
c)
New Amsterdam
d)
Jamestown
33.

November 11, 1918, which war?

a)
The Vietnam War
b)
The Korean War
c)
World War I
d)
World War II
34.

One of the driest regions in the world, found in South America, is the

a)
Gobi Desert
b)
Atacama Desert
c)
Sahara Desert
d)
Kalahari Desert
35.

The Rough Riders, which war?

a)
World War I
b)
Vietnam War
c)
Korean War
d)
Spanish-American War
36.

American Patriot who said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"

a)
Nathan Hale
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
George Washington
37.

Virginian who said, "Give me liberty or give me death"

a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
George Washington
c)
James Madison
d)
Patrick Henry
38.

The first use of atomic bombs, which war?

a)
World War I
b)
Cold War
c)
Vietnam War
d)
World War II
39.

The man who developed the assembly line method of production

a)
Elon Musk
b)
Henry J. Kaiser
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Thomas Edison
40.

The two countries were the U.S. military attacked terrorists in the "War on Terror"

a)
Pakistan, Yemen
b)
Syria, Iran
c)
Libya, Somalia
d)
Afghanistan, Iraq
41.

The first man to walk on the moon

a)
Buzz Aldrin
b)
Yuri Gagarin
c)
Michael Collins
d)
Neil Armstrong
42.

One of the world's ten most admired women of her time was (singer)

a)

Marian Anderson

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Elizabeth Elliot

43.

The black minister who was very active in the civil rights movement

a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
Malcolm X
44.

The most famous early South American Indian civilization was the

a)
Inca Empire
b)
Chavin Culture
c)
Aztec Empire
d)
Mayan Civilization
45.

The Communist leader who agreed to plan a "perestroika", or "restructuring"

a)
Vladimir Lenin
b)
Mikhail Gorbachev
c)
Leonid Brezhnev
d)
Joseph Stalin
46.

The Communist leader of Russia during WWII was

a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Mikhail Gorbachev
c)
Vladimir Lenin
d)
Leon Trotsky
47.

The President who helped bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was

a)
Richard Nixon
b)
Ronald Reagan
c)
Bill Clinton
d)
Jimmy Carter
48.

Operation Desert Storm was directed against the country of

a)
Iran
b)
Syria
c)
Saudi Arabia
d)
Iraq
49.

America's most famous evangelist of the 19th century

a)
Dwight L. Moody
b)
Charles Finney
c)
Billy Graham
d)
Jonathan Edwards
50.

The inventor of the telegraph

a)
Nikola Tesla
b)
Samuel Morse
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
51.

One of the inventors of the airplane

a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Henry Ford
d)

Orville Wright

52.

The "Plant Genius" who found 285 uses for the peanut

a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Eli Whitney
d)
George Washington Carver
53.

The inventor of the electric lightbulb

a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Nikola Tesla
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
54.

The president during World War I

a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Calvin Coolidge
55.

The inventor of the first liquid fuel rocket

a)
Elon Musk
b)
Wernher von Braun
c)
Robert H. Goddard
d)
Hermann Oberth
56.

Capital of Nebraska

a)
Lincoln
b)
Omaha
c)

New York

d)
Nebraska City
57.

Capital of Maine

a)

New York

b)
Portland
c)
Bangor
d)
Augusta
58.

Capital of Hawwaii

a)
Kauai
b)
Oahu
c)
Maui
d)
Honolulu
59.

Capital of Arizona

a)
Phoenix
b)
Sedona
c)
Flagstaff
d)
Tucson
60.

Capital of Alabama

a)
Montgomery
b)
Birmingham
c)
Huntsville
d)
Mobile
61.

Capital of Montana

a)
Bozeman
b)
Helena
c)
Missoula
d)
Billings
62.

Capital of Texas

a)
Dallas
b)
Houston
c)
San Antonio
d)
Austin
63.

Capital of Alaska

a)
Juneau
b)
Sitka
c)
Fairbanks
d)
Anchorage
64.

Capital of Wisconsin

a)
Milwaukee
b)
Green Bay
c)
Madisonville
d)
Madison
65.

Capital of Virginia

a)
Richmond
b)
Virginia Beach
c)
Norfolk
d)
Charlottesville