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

    biased

    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