A History Quiz

Answer: 1066

William the Conqueror was William I and he came to England in 1066 (he won the Battle of Hastings). Henry VIII was made King in 1509, James I (he was also the King of Scotland) became King of England in 1603 and Queen Victoria was crowned Queen in 1837.

Answer: The Roman Empire

The British Empire was much later than the Roman Empire - this took place only 150 years ago. The Persian Empire was much earlier than the Roman Empire (it is written about in the Old Testament in the Bible). There has never been an 'American Empire'.

Answer: George Washington

The American Capital is named after the first President - Washington D.C., and one of the States is also named for him. Abraham Lincoln was the President during the American Civil War in 1861-5, John Kennedy was the President from 1961 to 1963, and Ronald Reagan was President in the 1980s.

Answer: Argentina

Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a musical about her - called 'Evita' - and one of the songs was entitled 'Don't cry for me, Argentina'.

Answer: Napoleon

Napoleon was emperor of France for a time. Hitler was the leader of Germany during the second World War, while Churchill was the English Prime Minister. Eisenhower was American, and was President after the second World War.

Answer: Columbus

Columbus spent many years trying to get someone to pay for a journey 'the other way' to the far east. Eventually he persuaded King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to give him some money, and a few months later found that he could not sail directly to Asia as there was a large land mass in the way!

Technically, however, he only got as far as the Caribbean islands (which he believed to be lying off the coast of Asia), and never set foot on the mainland of North America. Even if he had done so, he was beaten by Viking explorers who arrived in what is now Canada centuries earlier.

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Albert Einstein was a very clever man who lived in the 20th century (long after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone) and Sir Thomas More was an important man in England during the reign of Henry VIII. Ronald Reagan was President of the United States in the 1980s.

Answer: Greece

Thousands of years ago the ancient Greeks held Games, and they were for men only. When the Olympics started over a hundred years ago, they were also only for men! Very slowly since then women have been able to take part in more and more sports.

Answer: Florence Nightingale

Elizabeth Fry was the lady who went into the prisons and cleaned them up so people no longer got sick and died there. Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister in the 1980s, and Flora MacDonald helped 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' escape the English in the seventeenth century.

Answer: Neil Armstrong

Winston Churchill was the British Prime Minister during the second World War (and for a period in the 1950s as well), John Lennon was a musician and composer and Martin Luther King was an American Pastor who led his country in a movement to give equal rights to the coloured population.