History Test 13

People

100

Leader of the Protestant Reformation in France

John Calvin

200

Young peasant girl who led the French army to victory, but was later captured and burned at the stake

John of Arc

300

French emperor who wanted to conquer all of the world

Napoleon Bonaparte

400

Leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany

Adolf Hitler

500

Scientist who taught the world how to protect against germs

Louis Pasteur

Places

100

Capital of France

Paris

200

Capital of Germany

Berlin

300

Capital of Italy

Rome

400

Capital of Spain

Madrid

500

city with the famous "leaning tower"

Pisa

Geography

100

highest peak in France

Mont Blanc

200

Mainland Europe's only active volcano

Mt. Vesuvius

300

Europe's most important inland waterway

Rhine River

400

Huge swamp in southern Spain

The Tidelands

500

Island at the toe of Italy's boot

Sicily

People pt. 2

100

first European to travel all the way across Asia

Marco Polo

200

Italian dictator and leader of the Fascists

Mussolini

300

Italian painter of the Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

400

One of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time

Albert Einstein

500

Italian sculptor of David and Moses

Michelangelo

Random

100

Italy is often called, "Home of the __?"

Renaissance

200

Matadors in Spain fight what animal?

bulls

300

Spain and Portugal are on what peninsula?

Iberian

400

He was a World War II hero who became president of the Fifth Republic

Charles de Gaulle

500

Bach, Hendel, and Beethoven were famous German what?

musicians