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Viking Quiz KS2 #ks2
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1
What did Odin give up in order to gain more knowledge?
His axe
His sword
His arm
His eye
2
I was a great sailor, I was the Son of Erik the Red, I discovered the area called Newfoundland:
Oden
Leif Ericksson
Valhalla
Freya
3
The area of land the Danes ruled over was called:
Danelaw
Cornwall
Ireland
Scotland
4
The Vikings didn’t have satellite navigation or even compasses. What did they use to navigate?
Alfred's cake fungi
conkers
The sun and the stars
A crystal ball
5
We can tell a lot about the Viking way of life from excavations in an area called:
Danegeld
Coppergate
Stalemate
Fyrd
6
Long tales or stories that tell us all about the Vikings and their conquests and explorations
Runes
Sagas
Pagans
Keels
7
Who were given ship-burials with treasure, weapons, favourite dogs & horses buried with them.
Viking Chiefs
Enemy Kings
Loyal Slaves
Anglo Saxon Monks
8
From sagas we often think Vikings as violent. These stories describe long family rows, called:
Fisty cuffs
Tiffs
Squabbles
Blood feuds
9
Pagan religions worship several gods & goddesses. Pagans see what as very important?
Technology
Sport
Nature
Jewellery
10
Archaeologists find what the Vikings ate and drank. Which drink is the one
only the rich drank?
Buttermilk
Mead
Wine
Beer
11
The monastery on holy island Lindisfarne was rich in silver treasures. To plunder means to:
To build defences to protect aplace
Have a violent argument withsomebody
Sell items for money
To take loot during a raid often damage at the same time.
12
Vikings believed a warrior killed in battle went to paradise with other heros. They called it:
Danelaw
The Forest
Heaven
Valhalla
13
The Norsemen believed that the world was actually a set of how many worlds?
12
9
3
6
14
Jorvik was avery important town because it:
Had richfertile land around it for farming.
Had two riverswhich were gateway to the sea and world trade
Was easy todefend as the rivers formed a natural boundary.
All of the above.
15
What did Odin receive from the ice giant in return for giving up one eye?
All the magic in the world
All of the knowledge in the world
All of the love in the world
All of the strength in the world
16
Viking pagan customs died out after they became Christians - when the Vikings settled in:
AD 100
AD 900s
AD 30
AD 1500
17
Who goddess of love, lust and beauty? (can you think of the difference between lust and love?)
Tyr
Freyja
Odin
Thor
18
Between what years did the Vikings rule much of Europe
1939CE-1945CE
790CE - 1066CE
AD790 - AD1066
60000BCE - 650CE
19
Which three countries did the Vikings come from?
Mongolia, China and North Korea
Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia
Norway, Sweden and Denmark
Finland, Norway and Sweden
20
The
ruler of all the Viking gods and goddesses;
god of knowledge and wisdom
Tyr
Odin
Thor
Loki
21
Which of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms did the Vikings Great Heathen Army first set up camp?
Northumbria
East Anglia
Mercia
Wessex
22
The belief
in
many gods and goddesses
usually relating to nature
(like Thor the god of weather)
Paganism
Christianity
Scandinavian
Mythology
23
From East Anglia, the Vikings moved north, in AD866 they captured Eoforwic, which they renamed:
Washington
London
York
Jorvik
24
From archaeological evidence, we can we tell the Vikings traveled to countries as far as:
New Zealand
Turkey
Antarctica
Australia
25
Midgard = humans lived, Asgard home of the gods. The rainbow bridge joining these 2 worlds was:
Helheim
Alfheim
Jotunheim
Bilfrost
26
Viking alphabet,
we call the symbols in our alphabet letters; Vikings called their symbols ____
Degrees
Runes
Specs
Dunes
27
What were babies given to protect them from evil spirits and sickness?
Silks
LittleThor's-hammer charms
Spices
Slaves
28
The first planned Viking raid in AD 793 was on the island of:
Lendesfarn
Listinfarne
Lindesfarne
Lindisfarne
29
READ ALL OPTIONS CAREFULLY
- King Alfred
was a
great leader.
Because he:
Built longships to fight the Vikings at sea
Set up his own school & organised the writing A-S Chronicles
ALL of the above.
Forced the Viking leader, Guthrum to sign a peace treaty.
30
Freyja wept golden tears when she was unhappy. Which day was named after her?
Sunday
Monday
Friday
Tuesday
31
Raids started small & unorganised. The 1st recorded voyage to England was in: (clue: Portland)
AD 1300
AD 900
AD 793
AD 787
32
The name Wednesday comes from ‘Odin’s day’.
Odin had two ravens called:
Alfie & Stanley
Kindess & Giving
Memory & Thought
Monty & Bertie
33
You know the Viking longboats - fast, light, easy to move for raiding. The Knarr boats were:
Special Viking fishing boats
Especiallylight for travelling over land.
Strong and sturdy for carrying cargo and animals
Able to go underwater like submarines
34
The Viking god of the sky, thunder, and war was:
Thor
Oden
Vishnu
Hermes
