History Testez

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Growing just enough food for your family.

Question 2

Who invented the steel plow?

Answer 2

John Deere.

Question 3

What are real wages?

Answer 3

What you take home with you.

Question 4

Who gave us the flying shuttle?

Answer 4

John Kay.

Question 5

Who invented the spinning mule?

Answer 5

Samuel Krompton.

Question 6

What movement allowed farmers to control the breeding of their livestock?

Answer 6

Enclosure movement.

Question 7

Who invented the miners safety lamp?

Answer 7

Sir Humphry Davy.

Question 8

Who is known for the steam locomotive?

Answer 8

George Stephenson.

Question 9

Who laid a cable over the field of water?

Answer 9

Cyrus Field.

Question 10

Who created the first vaccine for smallpox?

Answer 10

Jenner.

Question 11

Who discovered the germ theory for disease?

Answer 11

Louis Pasteur.

Question 12

Who is known for converting iron to steel?

Answer 12

Henry Bessemer.

Question 13

Who is Graham Bell?

Answer 13

An inventor known for the telephone.

Question 14

Who is considered one of the greatest inventors of all time?

Answer 14

Thomas Edison.

Question 15

Who is known for killing germs in surgery?

Answer 15

Joseph Lister.

Question 16

What is our economic system?

Answer 16

Capitalism.

Question 17

What is a very good essay question regarding capitalism?

Answer 17

Characteristics of capitalism.

Question 18

Who owned the largest steel company in the world?

Answer 18

Andrew Carnegie.

Question 19

Who is known for banking?

Answer 19

J. P. Morgan.

Question 20

What is philanthropy?

Answer 20

Sending money to help the less fortunate.

Question 21

Who wrote Wealth of Nations?

Answer 21

Adam Smith.

Question 22

How long did Queen Victoria rule?

Answer 22

64 years.

Question 23

What percentage of the earth belonged to the British Empire?

Answer 23

25%.

Question 24

Who was Victoria’s husband?

Answer 24

Prince Albert.

Question 25

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 25

The right to vote.

Question 26

Who represented liberals in Parliament?

Answer 26

Gladstone.

Question 27

Who is known as the Prince of Preachers?

Answer 27

Charles Spurgeon.

Question 28

Who was a cricket player that surrendered to missions?

Answer 28

S. T. Studd.

Question 29

Who founded the China Inland Mission?

Answer 29

J. Hudson Taylor.

Question 30

Who is known for modern nursing?

Answer 30

Florence Nightingale.

Question 31

Who negotiated a treaty for trade between America and Japan?

Answer 31

Mathew Perry.

Question 32

Who was one of the first missionaries to the interior of Japan?

Answer 32

Joseph Hardy.

Question 33

Who was the first Baptist missionary to Japan and invented the rickshaw?

Answer 33

Jonathan Goble.

Question 34

Who is known for building orphanages and prayed for food before it arrived?

Answer 34

George Muller.

Question 35

What does YMCA stand for?

Answer 35

Young Men's Christian Association.

Question 36

Who is associated with the Crimean War?

Answer 36

Florence Nightingale.

Question 37

What is imperialism?

Answer 37

Establishment of colonies to benefit an empire.

Question 38

What should you know regarding British expansion?

Answer 38

The reasons for British expansion.

Question 39

What does diplomacy involve?

Answer 39

Negotiations between governments and nations.

Question 40

What was the powerful trading company that gained control of India?

Answer 40

East India Company.

Question 41

What started a rebellion in India against England?

Answer 41

Sepoy Rebellion.

Question 42

Who translated the Bible into languages and stopped the ritual sutty?

Answer 42

William Carey.

Question 43

Who is Amy Carmichael?

Answer 43

A missionary known for her work in India.

Question 44

Who was Hugh Clapperton?

Answer 44

An explorer in Africa.

Question 45

Who was sent to find Livingstone?

Answer 45

Henry Stanley.

Question 46

What was the first independent African republic?

Answer 46

Liberia.

Question 47

Who was Lott Carey?

Answer 47

A missionary to Liberia.

Question 48

Who were the first people of South Africa?

Answer 48

The Dutch.

Question 49

Who are the natives of New Zealand?

Answer 49

Maoris.

Question 50

What was the Australian gold rush?

Answer 50

A period of mass migration to Australia for gold.

Question 51

What is required to be part of the British Commonwealth of Nations?

Answer 51

You have to recognize the British Monarch as the head of the association.