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WorksheetsGENERAL EDUCATION – SET B (Worksheet Questions)
Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
In which year was Muhammad born?
570 ~ Mecca
631 ~ Arabia
344 ~ Baghdad
467 ~ Arabian Gulf
A ________ is a region that has very little rainfall.
drought
desert
ocean
mountain range
Which of these happened during the French Revolution?
Execution of Louis XIII
Founding of Lutheranism
Storming of the Bastile
Surrender of Napoleon
Americans and Britains met in France to end the American Revolution by signing the
Treaty of Ghent
Declaration of Independance
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of The Rights of Man
The "elastic clause" gives Congress the power to
amend the Constitution
declare actions of the president unconstitutional
pass laws needed to carry out its other powers
veto the supreme court
If the Supreme Court decides that a law or act of the President goes against the Constitution, it can ___ the law or act.
vote
approve
appeal
cancel
re-write
What man is most responsible for sparking the Protestant Reformation?
Tetzel
Cromwell
Augustine
Luther
Do Islamic people need to make a journey to Mecca or Haji once in their lifetime?
Yes
No
Maybe Yes
Maybe No
The Greek alphabet is based on which other alphabet?
Egyptian
Babylonian
Phoenician
Hittite
Where did the Athenians and Persians fight their first decisive battle?
Plataea
Marathon
Athens
Salamis
Who said, Give me liberty or give me death!
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
What does the list below reveal about Islam? - Muslims pray five times a day. - Muslim women dress modestly - Muslims don’t drink alcohol or eat pork. - Muslims give money to support charities.
Islam is a way of life.
Islam was popular in Arabia in the 700s.
Islam was the same as other religions.
Islam is a religion of hardship.
Last Queen of France
Marie Antoinette
Isabella
Joan of Arc
Cleopatra
Emperor Justinian is most famous for
creating a systematic body of laws
putting down a terrible revolt
reclaiming lost territory of the Roman Empire
making the city rich and wealthy
The Romans were heavily influenced by the Greek's
religion
architecture
alphabet
all of the above
Who told Martin Luther he could no longer be a member of the Church?
Pope Leo X
Henry VIII
God
Ann Boleyn
Who wrote the song, "Over There", which became the anthem for soldiers joining WWI?
George M. Cohan
Irving Berlin
Jim Thorpe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the end of the Roman Empire, all of these factors contributed to the fall of Rome except,
political instability
Christianity
economic and social problems
weakening frontiers
What type of Greek column is the simplest design?
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Bionic
How did industrialization have a NEGATIVE impact on society?
Increased labor needs in cities
Child labor
Safe working conditions
Increased pay
The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Unions response to NATO.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
The president can veto a bill.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
East Germany and Bulgaria were part of the Warsaw Pact.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
In 1787, abolitionists founded the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in what nation?
Britain
France
Germany
Spain
Who invented the flying shuttle?
John Fowler
John Kay
Andrew Meikle
Jethro Tull
Darren had been researching his family's history in order to find out where his favorite grandmother was born. One day, while looking through some papers in the attic of his parent's house, he found his grandmother's birth certificate. The birth certificate contained the following address, 918 Grover Lane, Tyler, TX, 75701. The address is an example of
orientation
relative location
place
absolute location
The prime meridian separates the
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Northern and Southern Hemispheres
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
North and South Poles
The Greeks adopted their alphabet from which civilization?
the Egyptians
the Phoenicians
the Babylonians
______ was the murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis during WWII ______ a movement that encouraged reestablishing the ancestral Jewish homeland
Semitism; Holocaust
Prejudice; Zionism
Holocaust; Zionism
Communism; Holocaust
Hindus believe in obeying one's karma. A person should accept there place in the world without complaint.
True
False
Japan is a chain of islands in the northern .
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Caspian Sea
What forms of entertainment were popular among Roman citizens?
Chariot racing
Plays
Gladiator fights
All of the above
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 enforced the Fifteenth Amendment and outlaws discriminatory voting practices.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
Where was the Magna Carta signed?
England
France
Germany
Italy
What impact did Thomas Edison have on American society?
Discovered electricity
Invented the light bulb
Invented the telephone
Invented the telegram
Brazil was colonized by the Spanish.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
Queen Elizabeth I financed Drake's expeditions.
True
False
Maybe False
Maybe True
What language greatly influenced English that came out of the Roman Empire?
Greek
Arabic
German
Latin
After he decided the empire was too large to manage, divided the Roman Empire into four parts.
Constantine
Diocletian
Alaric
Odoacer
___ was the Roman god of war.
Mars
Jupiter
Ares
Neptune
___ was the last emperor to rule to Roman Empire.
Odoacer
Romulus Augustulus
Diocletian
Constantine
A series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent.
Cotton Roads
Culture Roads
Silk Roads
Asian Roads
Who was known as the Father Modern Chemistry?
Robert Boyle
Antoine Lavoisier
Sir Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Who was the mighty Trojan warrior that killed Patroclus?
Zeus
Hector
Paris
Achilles
Alvaro de Mendaña was an explorer for which country?
England
France
Netherlands
Spain
The Colonist's name for the Coercive Acts.
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Who is known as the Father of Medicine?
Vizier
Ramses II
Khnum
Imhotep
World War 1 was fought using what kind of warfare?
poison gas
trench
submarines
dogfights
all of the above
In which region of Africa would you find large animals that eat grass?
Savannah
Sahara
Rain forest
Wild Forest
What is absolute location?
The exact, or precise, location of a place
An exact location using the intersection of latitude and longitude lines
A flat representation of the world
No exact location at all
Which of the following is true about desertification:
overgrazing of land contributes.
climate changes/drought contribute.
causes famine.
all of the above
American Samoa, a United States territory, is part of
Micronesia
Papa New Guinea
Polynesia
Melenesia
The meridian at Greenwich, England, from which longitude is measured east and west.
Map Projection
artifact
Meridian Mississippi
Prime Meridian
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire is
Byzantium
New Rome
Constantinople
All of the Above
What famous Supreme Court case ruled that police officers must read the constitutional rights to all people they place under arrest?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Miranda v. Arizona
Jordan v. Bryant
What was the first stop on Columbus' voyage to Asia?
Africa
The Canary Islands
Santo Domingo
The Bahamas
In 1776, the invention of the steam engine sped up industrialization, which British engineer was responsible for this?
Samuel Crompton
Denis Papin
James Watt
All of the above
From which historic Landmark in Arkansas, did Bill Clinton announce his run for president of the United States?
the Old State House
Central High School
his childhood home in Hope, Arkansas
Arkansas Post National Memorial
What is the Japanese word meaning great general?
shogun
samurai
hari-kiri
bushido
Who wrote a book entitled "The Courtier" that described proper conduct?
Petrarch
Erasmus
Castiglione
Sir Thomas More
The Bastille
Louis XVI's castle
French prison
Court in Paris
Where Robespierre lived
What is a crusade?
a journey to the Holy Land
fasting for religious reasons
a holy war
a political war
An example of a natural physical feature is a
town
church
plantation
river
West African trade was based mainly on which two items?
gold and silver
slaves and copper
silk and ivory
gold and salt
Roman art was greatly influenced by,
the Persians
the Egyptians
the Greeks
the Chinese
Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate (go all the way around the world)?
Ferdinand Magellan
Marco Polo
Leif Eriksson
No one
The inability to satisfy all wants at the same time. All resources and goods are limited. What word goes with this definition
opportunity cost
resources
price
scarcity
What colony did not attend the 1st Continental Congress?
Illinois
Virgina
Georgia
Connecticut
There are four economies. Which one is centrally owned by the government?
Free Market
Mixed
Traditional
Command
What is the capital of South Carolina?
Columbia
Charleston
Durham
Atlanta
Who was the Leader of the Vietnamese that declared their Independence from France after defeated them in 1954?
Douglas McArthur
Mao Ze Dong
Ho Chi Minh
Jackie Chan
Latitude lines run from north and south and measure degrees east and west of the equator
True
False
What is an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control called?
Free enterprise
market economy
capitalism
scarcity
In order to continue their control over the judiciary after the election of President Jefferson, ___ legislators passed the Judiciary Act of 1801.
Democratic-Republican
Democrat
Federalist
Republican
What was the area around Athens called?
Euboea
Mycenae
Attica
Thebes
What are the three basic question of economics?
who will buy it, how much is it going to cost, where will it be sold
why should we buy it, what color does it come in, how much will it sell
what will be produced, who will produce it, for whom will it be produced
how many people will produce it, who will test it, who will it be produced for
Why did Darius I of Persia send troops to attack Athens?
to punish them for aiding the Ionian rebels
to punish them for siding with Macedonia
to steal their ships so they could use them for trade
because it was on the way to Sparta
The hominid group of Homo sapiens, or Wise Man, is the
large-brained group that modern humans belong to.
tall ape group that existed before modern humans.
last group of hominids that had a hunched body.
first hominid to migrate and settle in new areas.
The Eastern Roman Empire came to be known as
East Anglia
the Middle East
the Byzantine Empire
the Ottoman Empire
A road map is an example of a
special purpose map
political map
physical map
relief map
What is the main export of Mexico?
Oil
Machines, engines, pumps
Vegetables
Vehicles
Land named in honor of King Louis XIV of France
Louisiana
New york
New Orleans
St. Louis
What was papyrus used for in Ancient Egypt?
to cook with
to make paper
weapons
to build with
In 1875, the peasants of Bosnia and Herzegovina rebelled against the
Greeks
Serbs
Turks
Russians
Mmmmm...bacon. Who brought pigs to Mississippi?
Christopher Columbus
Hernando Cortes
Hernando de Soto
Machiavelli and Rossosou
Which group become more powerful in Europe after the Reformation?
monarchs
the Papacy
feudal lords
guild artisans
What is the form of government in the United Kingdom?
dictatorship
constitutional monarchy
military
socialism
When did the Civil war start?
April 7, 1887
April 12, 1861
April 12, 1871
When was Emmett Till born?
July 25, 1941
June 5, 1955
August 28, 1955
July 25, 1945
Rome is known as the city built on
five hills
six hills
seven hills
eight hills
Emperor Justinian's systematic body of laws is called
Justinian's Constitution
Justinian's Code
Justinian's Law
Justinian's Compact
Who ruled the Holy Roman Empire?
Charlemagne
Henry II
Henry VIII
the Pope
When people go to Mecca, what do they do there?
Eat a feast
Pray to God
Fasting occurs
They sing
Under ___, the law did no apply equally to all.
Hammurabi
The King of Uratu
Sargon II
Gilgamesh
The spread of beliefs, institutions, or skills of one society
cave paintings
bronze
cultural diffusion
A state or nation in which the supreme power is held by a single person.
democracy
monarchy
bureaucracy
slavery
What was the basic unit of currency in ancient Greece?
the lire
the denarius
the shekel
the drachma
A person who makes maps.
map
longitude
cartographer
equator
John Calvin was the Protestant leader from .
Spain
Switzerland
France
Germany
Meaning "the shore of the desert", what region lies between the Sahara Desert and the Savannah?
Nile River Valley
The Sahel
Great Rift Valley
In AD 1739, Nadir Shah, the ruler of ____ invaded India
Persia
Punjab
Pakistan
Bali
A representation of all parts of the earth's surface, showing countries, bodies of water and cities.
artifact
equator
map projection
map
Aphrodite was given what Roman name?
Cupid
Pluto
Minerva
Venus
Poseidon was given what Roman name?
Neptune
Vulcan
Mars
Jupiter
Region along the gulf of Mexico and the east coast of North America
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Climate
Appalachian Mountains
Central Lowlands
___ was a result of Columbus's voyage
many Native American people lost their land
Europeans learned about the Americas
Spanish colonists settled in the West Indies
all of the above
Colonists created a secret society that used violence to frighten tax collectors known as the
Headrights
Sons of Liberty
Colonial Courts
Middle Passage
German soldiers hired by the British during the Revolution
mercenaries
privateers
Loyalists/Tories
Hessians
What resource helped make some of the African empires very wealthy? In some places, it was considered even more valuable than gold.
Gunpowder
Silk
Salt
Iron
Which word describes a few wealthy men who held power?
Tyranny
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
Democracy
A ______ is a body of salt water not as large as an ocean.
pond
fish tank
sea
mountain range
Which one of these is not a branch of government?
Judicial
Executive
Military
Legislative
The last king to rule Rome. He was driven out of power because of his harsh rule.
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Octavian Augustus
Tarquin the Proud
The first Latin American county to gain independence was
Haiti
venezuela
Cuba
Chile
Theme of geography that deals with how people and places are linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas and goods -- transportation, communication, trade, patterns of movement such as migration.
movement
place
physical characteristic
geography
A paleoanthropologist specializes in the study of the
kings and queens of the earliest modern humans.
development and culture of the earliest hominids.
communication and social systems of early apes.
trade and barter systems among modern humans.
Sandstorms can contribute to desertification because:
The desert sand can be shifted for up to a thousand miles, covering over arable lands
the sand causes wars.
the ground water levels are dropping with shifting sand.
Reservoirs are built after the storm.
Which Italian city was located on the Adriatic Sea and had a large navy?
Bologna
Calaise
Nantes
Venice
Maps usually have a __ to show what distance on the earth is represented by a certain distance on the map.
grid
scale
legend
cell
The Greeks learned about coins from which other nation?
the Phoenicians
the Babylonians
the Lydians
the Syrians
Who was the first Explorer to see the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Leif Eriksson
Henry Hudson
Marco Polo
One of the different ways of showing earth's curved surface on a flat map.
equator
Map Projection
cartographer
Prime Meridian
What were most Spanish explorers looking for?
the Fountain of Youth
gold
silks
the Mississippi River
Who were the Puritans?
Protestant religious group that believed in non - violence and the equality of men and women
The founders of Virginia
A Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify the Church of England.
People that left their country of birth to live in another country
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see what ocean?
Indian
Atlantic
Arctic
Pacific
What state has the largest population in the United States?
Texas
Florida
New York
California
A person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland is called an .
slave code
immigrant
indentured servant
pilgrim
The Magna Carta was signed by
members of the Parliment.
Pope Gregory II.
King Henry II.
King John.
What landmark features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
White House
Mount Rushmore
Independence Hall
Statue of Liberty
Who wrote Common Sense?
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
___ was used to write BOTH documents and messages.
scripts
codes
Cuneiform
cursive
Which countries were members of the "Axis Powers" in World War II?
Germany, Japan, Russia
Germany, Japan, Soviet Union
Germany, Japan, France
Germany, Japan, Italy
What English monarch broke from the Catholic church and made himself head of the Church of England?
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Henry II
James II
The Congress of Vienna attempted to surround ______ with powerful nations.
France
Germany
Russia
Austria
What is their holy symbol?
Easter
Ramadan
The Cross
The Menorah
Who was the victor of the Battle of Arginusae?
Athens
Sparta
Corinth
Thebes
What is a krater?
a monster
a type of building
a type of spear
a large vase
What city did women have the most political rights?
Athens
Corinth
Sparta
Rome
In Medieval Europe, the clergy were...
people given priestly authority by the church
major landowners
the most advanced knights
the king's personal religious leaders
Who wrote an epic poem about the journey of Aeneas to Italy?
Plato
Aristotle
Virgil
Socrates
This was the name of the journey in which Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves
Middle Passage
Triangular Trade
Headrights
Intolerable Acts
Which country has the largest oil reserve?
Yemen
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Any feature such as a land form, body of water, climate, vegetation, and erosion of the soil that defines a region of the earth.
human characteristic
physical feature
elevation
trend
In Ancient Africa, this coastline was important for trade with Asia.
The Morrocan
The Yemeni
The Ethiopian
The Nigerian
___ was an English colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony.
John Smith
John Winthrope
Nathaniel Bacon
Johnny Appleseed
Set out to help Ethan Allen and helped capture Fort Ticonderoga. Later became a traitor.
Francis Marion
William Howe
Benedict Arnold
Nathan Hale
The study of people, places, and the environment.
geography
culture
region
dominant culture
They were in large demand in the South due to the need for a large, agricultural workforce
slaves
immigrants
indentured servants
colonists
Every country must develop an ___ system to determine how to use its limited productive resources.
economic
dual court
civil
criminal
Rivalry between producers/sellers of a good or service result in better quality goods and services at a lower price. This is called:
competition
corporation
consumer sovereignty
capitalism
