2025 Mastermind Questions

Skills

100

The term CE in dating system stands for

Common Era 

200

Before written records, historians call this historical period

Pre-Historical 

300

The correct chronological order of historical periods 

Pre-History, Ancient, Medieval and Modern 

400

List 3 methods of archaeology to determine the age of once-living materials

Radiocarbon-14 Dating 

Dendrochronology 

Thermoluminescence 

500

The term chronology means

Placing historical events in order of their occurrence from earliest to current

Philosophers and emperors

100

Which Greek Philosopher wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer 

200

The Greek philosopher that was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens was:

Socrates 

300

The Greek Philosopher that taught Alexander the Great was called: 

Aristotle 

400

Name the First Emperor that unified China in 221 BC

Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di 

500

Name the last Pharaoh of Egypt 

Cleopatra VII

Civilisations

100

Name the Indigenous Australian sire that provides evidence of 40,000 years of continuous culture

Lake Mungo

200

Name the empire that captured Constantinople in 1453

The Ottoman Empire 

300

Translate Julius Caesar's "Vini, Vidi, Vici" saying in English

"I came, I saw, I conquered"

400

Name the Aztec Empire's capital city

Tenochtitlan

500

Name TWO cities that the eruption of Mt Vesuvius buried when it erupted in 79 AD

Pompeii and Herculaneum (cities of Vesuvius)

Art and Architecture

100

In ancient Egypt, what was the purpose of the pyramids?

Pharaoh's burial in the Valley of the Kings

200

Name a Roman engineering achievement that transported water over long distances

Aqueducts

300

Name the primary building material used in most Roman structures such as aqueducts and baths

Concrete

400

Name the artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo 

500

Name the ancient Egyptian monument or statue with a body of a lion and a head of a pharaoh

Sphinx

Random

100

Name the major changes in Europe from the Spanish Conquest of the Americas

Influx of gold (brought back large amounts of gold) and new crops 

200

The purpose of Hammurabi's Code is

Set of laws in ancient Mesopotamia --> oldest recorded legal codes

300

According to legend, which Greek King led the Greek army in the Trojan War

Agamemnon (King of Greece, brother to the King of Sparta Menelaus)

400

Define an artefact

Man made objects from the past such as tools, weapons, pottery, artwork

500

Name the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 from the Crusaders 

Sultan Saladin