What is History Quiz
By Andy Walker
a year 7 history quiz from www.historygcse.org
1. What do you call a period of ten years
dowry
decathlon
decade
deirdre
2. What do you call a period of one hundred years?
centipede
centurion
century
sentinel
3. What does BC mean?
before christ
before christmas
before chocolate
being cheerful
4. Anno Domini is Latin for...
After dinner
After death
in the year of our Lord
arranged duck pond
5. What is a primary source?
tomato ketchup
an original piece of evidence
a cheeky yound child
a horse less than one year old
6. What type of source is your history textbook?
barbecue
secondary
primary
tomato
7. CE and BCE have replaved AD and BC, why?
to confuse Dartford school girls
CE and BCE are better
because of the weather
CE and BCE are used by non christians too
8. What is the name given to a male or female head of state that is a King, Queen, Emperor or Empress?
monarch
tyrant
principal
mayor
9. If you arrange events in the date order that they happened it is called this.
chronic
chronological
christingle
chromulator
10. An era is?
a disease of the ear
a mistake
a piece of wheat
a period of time
11. An empire is
a man who rules a country
a group of nations ruled by one powerful nation
a big building in USA
a character in the Lord of the Rings
12. A piece of evidence is called a..?
sauce
source
sores
saws
13. What sort of historian digs up historical objects?
a gardner
an archaeologist
a technologist
a proctologist
14. A piece of evidence you can trust is described as....
reliable
pliable
sellable
smellable
15. If you only present one side of an argument or a dispute, you are....
naughty
biased
pressed
babyish
16. A source that give you interesting and helpful information could be described as...
useless
unbiased
useful
17. What word is used to describe heavily biased information?
propaganda
gooseyganda
haveaganda
onaveranda
18. What does prehistory mean?
before written history
before geography
after written history
the time of the dinosaurs
19. What is the most important and interesting subject you will ever study?
20. What century is 1999 in?
ninth
twenty first
nineteenth
twentieth