Survey Review Spring 2024

What is FDR famous for?

NYC was founded in 1650, more than 100 years before American independence.

Christopher Columbus was the first person to find America.

The Normans were originally from northern Europe, who moved to France before invading England.

Why didn't Elizabeth Bennet say yes to Mr. Darcy's 1st proposal?

The slave trade brought African slaves to the Americas, crossing which body of water?

The United States does not have a Parliament.

What year did the Norman Conquest happen?

Australia became a Federation when it gained independence.

What was one common theme in Walt Whitman's poems?

What are the indigenous people of mainland Australia and Tasmania called?

The Parliament of the United Kingdom has a history that goes back more than 800 years, to Medieval times.

Australia has a Parliament with a Senate and a House of Representatives.

Which country has the oldest written Constitution still in use today?

What are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands called?

What is the supreme judicial authority in the UK?

The Act of Supremacy led to the creation of the Anglican church.

The Norman Conquest brought the Swedish language to England to mix with old English.

UK monarchs today have no real political power.

Federalism is a political system that separates the powers of the three branches of government.

Which of these is NOT a tax Parliament made on the American colonies?

Why did the Pilgrims leave England to start Plymouth colony in Massachusetts in 1620?

The English were the first Europeans to arrive in Australia.

Yellowstone Park in the western US is the oldest national park in the world.

Which of these rights is NOT mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?

The UK, the US and Australia all have three branches of government.

Some of the best universities in America were founded before the country won independence.

Great Britain was officially formed in 1706-1707 when the Parliaments of Scotland and England were united.

Welsh is a language that comes from the Celtic invasion and is still spoken in Wales today.

Which country doesn't have a supreme court?

Who built the Great Ocean Road?

One theme of Pride and Prejudice is reasons for marriage.

What didn't happen when the Stuart Period began in 1603?

Australia is a Commonwealth Realm, so...

How are PMs chosen?

What's the capital of Australia?

What was the first full-length feature film about?

During the Georgian period Parliament gained even more power.

Judges on the US Supreme Court are appointed by the President.

The Appalachian Mountains are on the Eastern coast of Australia.

Which is NOT an example of checks and balances?

Elizabeth I only ruled England for a few years, but she tried to make the country Catholic again.

While the UK does have a monarch, the supreme power lies in Parliament.

Anzac Day is an American holiday.

The Union Jack is a combination of flags representing England, Scotland, and Ireland.

When was the Roaring Twenties?

The Spanish Armada successfully invaded England in 1588.

Which of these does NOT describe Australia's political system?

The US, the UK and Australia all have Cabinets.

Compared to Chinese university students, American university students have...

The Victorian period saw the Australian Empire spread around the world.

What are the indigenous people of North America called?

Which is NOT one of the four parts of the UK?

The Gold Rushes in the US and Australia led to more immigration.

Why is the Magna Carta important?

Trench warfare was used during World War I.

South Australia and Western Australia gave women the right to vote after Australian independence.

William Shakespeare wrote 8 famous plays: 4 comedies and 4 tragedies.

Members of the House of Lords aren't elected.

Great Britain and Ireland united under one Parliament in 1801.

One goal of the Labor Movement of the 19th century was the 8-hour work day.

The Civil War made the United States and independent nation.

General education is the most common major in American universities.

The United States has 56 states.

England has ruled Wales since the Conquest of Wales in 1283.

Who DOESN'T die in Hamlet?

Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression.

The city of Melbourne was founded while Australia was still colonized by the British.

Where do US Presidents live?

In Australia, Cabinet members and the PM can't be members of Parliament.

US women won got the right to vote at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties.

Which of these is NOT a writer?

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

The 1st British colony in America was named Jamestown, for King James I.

Which is NOT true about Washington, D.C.?

Who is NOT a member of Hamlet's family?

What's the longest river in the United States?

What did the Roman Invasion NOT bring to the UK?

Oxford University is in London.

The name "England" comes from the Anglo-Saxon term "Angle-land".

The current Vice President of the US is Kamala Harris, the first woman to hold that position.

What type of poem is Walt Whitman famous for?

What are the houses of the UK Parliament? (choose 2)

When was the Spanish Flu Pandemic?

US Senators and Representatives are all elected.

Which of these was NOT part of Westward Expansion?

When was the Boston Tea Party?

Where was the US involved in WWII?

Three of Henry VIII's children were English Monarchs, including his daughters Mary and Elizabeth.

MIT and Cornell are American universities founded around the time of the Revolutionary War.

The Glorious Revolution was the British War of Independence.

Paul Revere warned the colonial militia that "The redcoats are coming" to start the Revolutionary War.

The ancient Celtic Gaels are the ancestors of the modern Scottish and Irish cultures.

The Republic of Ireland rules the whole island of Ireland since Irish Independence.

The British began colonizing Australia only after their American colonies won independence.

The UK's form of government has developed through its history.

What's Isaac Newton most famous for?

After the 1st Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights and Grievances was rejected by Parliament, no hope peace.

The cause of the Revolutionary War was taxation without...

Britain is just another name for the United Kingdom.