History Quiz was/were

1 Was/Were

100

Who........Apollo, Zeus and Pluto?

a. Egyptian gods

b. Roman gods

c. Greek gods

c. Greek gods

200

Who ........the Marx brothers?

a. actors

b musicians

c. film directors

a. actors.

300

What .........the old name for New York?

a New Copenhagen

b New Rotterdam

c New Amsterdam

c New Amsterdam

400

Where.........Sigmund Freud born?

a Germany

b Switzerland

c Austria

c Austria

500

Julius Caesar.........the first Roman emperor

wasn´t

2 Was/Were

100

When...... the attacks on the Twin Towers on 9/11?

a. 2000

b. 2001

c. 2003

b. 2001

200

Where...........the incas from?

a. Peru

b Brazil

c. Venezuela

a. Peru

300

Where.....the 2010 Winter Olimpics?

a Austria

b Canada

c Japan

b Canada

400

Who.........Henry Vlll´s first wife?

a Jane Seymour

b Catherine of Aragon

c Anne Boleyn

b Catherine of Aragon

500

The Vikings..........from Germany

weren´t

3 Was/Were

100

What......the name of the first Apple computer?

a. Apple 1

b. IMac

c. Mac classic

a. Apple 1

200

Which.........the first country to win the Football World Cup?

a. Colombia

b. Chile

c. Uruguay

c. Uruguay

300

Who..........the composer of Tosca and Madame Butterfly?

a. Verdi

b. Puccini

c. Rossini

b. Puccini

400

Who....the last Tsar of Russia?

a Alexander lll

b Ivan the terrible

c Nicholas ll

c Nicholas ll

500

The Beatles......from Liverpool

were

4 Was/Were

100

What......the name of Michael Jackson´s house?

a. Graceland

b. Neverland

c. Prarie Chapel

b. Neverland

200

How old.......Marilyn Monroe when she died?

a 28

b 36

c 42

b 36

300

What.....the Titanic´s first and last voyage?

a from England to USA

b from USA to England

c from England to Australia

a from England to USA

400

How many countries.........in the European Union in 2010?

a 17

b 27

c 37

b 27

500

Brad Pitt .........married to Jennifer Aniston.

was

5 Was/Were

100

Which of these men.....President of the USA in 2008?

a. George W Bush

b. Bill Clinton

c. Barack Obama

a. George W Bush

200

What country........the first to use paper money?

a. Japan

b. Napal

c. China

c. China

300

When ........the Beijing Olympics?

a 2000

b 2008

c 1980

b 2008

400

What nationality..........the writers Oscar Wilde and James Joyce?

a Irish

b English

c Scottish

a Irish

500

The last Olympic Games in Asia...in Beijing in 2008

were