QUIZ WHIZ
1.Which U.S. president was the first to appear on television?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Richard Nixon
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Ronald Reagan
2.Who was named president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
A. Grover Cleveland
B. Andrew Johnson
C. Theodore Roosevelt
D. Ulysses S. Grant
3. Which famous monument did Shah Jah n build to immortalize his wife?
A. The Jama Mosque of Isfahan
B. Golestan Palace
C. Taj Mahal
D. Angkor Wat
4. Which war interrupted construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.?
A. Persian Gulf War
B. World War II
C. War of 1812
D. American Civil War
5. How long did it take to build the Titanic?
A. One year
B. Four years
C. Three years
D. Two years6
6. Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos?
A. Manuel Roxas
B. Fidel Ramos
C. Corazon Aquino
D. Benigno Aquino, Jr.
7. When did the Great Irish Famine begin?
A. 1810
B. 1845
C. 1895
D. 1925
8. What was the name of Franz Ferdinand’s assassin?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Lee Harvey Oswald
C. Gavrilo Princip
D. John Wilkes Booth
9. Who was the architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666?
A. Christopher Robin
B. I.M. Pei
C. Christopher Columbus
D. Christopher Wren
10. Which era immediately followed the American Civil War?
A. Reformation
B. Reconstruction
C. Renaissance
D. Gilded Age
11. Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?
A. Elizabeth I
B. Eleanor of Aquitaine
C. Mathilde of Flanders
D. Joan of Arc
12. Which Siberian peasant and mystic had a curious ability to heal the son of Emperor Nicholas II, which made him an influential favourite at the court?
A. Grigori Rasputin
B. Mikhail Borodin
C. Vladimir Purishkevich
D. L. Martov
13. Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
A. Augustus
B. Hesiod
C. Hippocrates
D. Hippocrene
Answers on 12-13
