Ch 20 - People

Question 1

What member of Parliament served as prime minister during the french Revolution and much of the Napoleonic Wars?

Answer 1

William Pitt the Younger

Question 2

Which Britain Napoleonic War hero became the commander in charge of military after the war and later served as prime minster?

Answer 2

Duke of Wellington

Question 3

Who founded the London Metropolitan Police Force and also served in Parliament, the cabinet, and two terms as prime minister?

Answer 3

Sir Robert Peel

Question 4

Who was England’s longest-reigning monarch?

Answer 4

Victoria

Question 5

Who was the husband and political adviser to Queen Victoria?

Answer 5

Prince Albert

Question 6

What leader of the Liberal party in Parliament served four terms as prime minister?

Answer 6

William Gladstone

Question 7

What leader of the Conservative party in Parliament also serviced four terms as prime minister?

Answer 7

Benjamin Disraeli

Question 8

What pastor of London’s largest church was called the “Prince of Preachers”?

Answer 8

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Question 9

Who was a popular preacher of the Victorian Age?

Answer 9

F.B. Meyer

Question 10

Who is a great American evangelist?

Answer 10

Dwight L. Moody

Question 11

Who was D.L. Moody’s songleader?

Answer 11

Ira Sankey

Question 12

What famous British cricket player spent his life as a missionary to China, India, and Africa?

Answer 12

C.T. Studd

Question 13

What English missionary worked with the people of Labrador and Newfoundland?

Answer 13

Wilfred Grenfell

Question 14

What German missionary founded orphanages for the forsaken children of Bristol, England?

Answer 14

George Muller

Question 15

Who was the founder of the Salvation Army?

Answer 15

William Booth

Question 16

What member of Parliament worked to improve conditions for children, laborers, and the mentally handicapped?

Answer 16

Lord Ashley

Question 17

Who created the modern nursing profession?

Answer 17

Florence Nightingale

Question 18

Who was sent by Queen Victoria to investigate conditions in Canada and made suggestions for settling the Canadian problem?

Answer 18

Lord Durham

Question 19

What missionary to India worked to rescue young Indian girls from a life of prostitution in the pagan temples?

Answer 19

Amy Carmichael

Question 20

What were the early Dutch colonists of South Africa called?

Answer 20

Afrikaners

Question 21

What were the Dutch settlers of South Africa called? It means “farmers”.

Answer 21

Boers

Question 22

Who was the British prime minister of the Cape Colony?

Answer 22

Cecil Rhodes

Question 23

Who was the president of Transvaal and a leader of the Boer War?

Answer 23

Paul Kruger

Question 24

What daring Afrikaner general lead the skilled Boer soldiers against the British?

Answer 24

Louis Botha

Question 25

What was the term used for the original inhabitants of Australia?

Answer 25

Aborigines

Question 26

What was the term used for the native people who called upon the British government to maintain order in New Zealand?

Answer 26

Maoris

Question 27

Who succeeded Queen Victoria as the ruler of England?

Answer 27

Edward VII

Question 28

Which British naturalist wrote “On the Origin of Species” in 1859?

Answer 28

Charles Darwin

Question 29

What is the most famous Christian Socialist?

Answer 29

Charles Kingsley