World History and Cultures Final Test

Question 1

Who started the largest continental empire in history?

Accepted Answer

Genghis Khan

Question 2

What is the philosophy which taught that man is naturally good, but society is bad?

Accepted Answer

romanticism

Question 3

What is the longest river in the world?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 4

Who was Napoleon's second wife?

Accepted Answer

Marie Louise

Question 5

Who was called "Bloody Mary" for her vicious persecutions of English Protestants

Accepted Answer

Mary Tudor

Question 6

Who is the father of Greek History?

Accepted Answer

Herodotus

Question 7

Who developed the first practical steam engine?

Accepted Answer

James Watt

Question 8

Child genius who wrote "The Magic Flute".

Accepted Answer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 9

Who sailed down the Mississippi River for France?

Accepted Answer

Robert Cavalier de la Salle

Question 10

Which of the following does NOT describe the Committee of Public Safety?

Accepted Answer

It established a stable government in France

Question 11

What does "rule by the many" mean?

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 12

Who developed the steel making process?

Accepted Answer

Henry Bessemer

Question 13

In what year did Martin Luther post the Ninety-five Theses beginning the Protestant Reformation

Accepted Answer

1517

Question 14

French Cardinal

Accepted Answer

Cardinal Mazarin

Question 15

Who established the Committee of Public Safety?

Accepted Answer

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 16

What execution device became the symbol of the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Guillotine

Question 17

Who wrote the best known choral piece in the world?

Accepted Answer

George Frederick Handel

Question 18

What was the name of the king who restored Bourbon Monarchy?

Accepted Answer

Louis XVIII

Question 19

Who was overthrown by the Glorious Revolution?

Accepted Answer

James II

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT accomplished by the August 4 Decrees?

Accepted Answer

The monarchy no longer existed in France

Question 21

The great composer ? is called the "Father of the English Hymns".

Accepted Answer

Isaac Watts

Question 22

What is a person called who worships many God's?

Accepted Answer

polytheist

Question 23

What was the most infamous day of the French religious wars?

Accepted Answer

St Bartholemew's Day massacre

Question 24

Who was an early light of the Reformation in the land of Bohemia?

Accepted Answer

John Huss

Question 25

Who proposed the heliocentric view of the universe?

Accepted Answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 26

Which of the following was NOT a Protestant leader during the reign of Edward VI?

Accepted Answer

John Hawkins

Question 27

What was Napoleon's greatest victory?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Austerlitz

Question 28

Which of the following BEST describes the reason behind Napoleon's defeat in Russia?

Accepted Answer

Russian Winter

Question 29

Who wrote all music "to the glory of God"

Accepted Answer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 30

Who won the Peloponnesian War?

Accepted Answer

Sparta

Question 31

Hernando Cortes is know for conquering who from Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Aztecs

Question 32

Who invented the "flying shuttle"?

Accepted Answer

John Kay

Question 33

Who was the great Frankish king who was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" on Christmas Day AD 800?

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 34

Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 35

The Greek Gods lived on what mountain in northern Greece?

Accepted Answer

Mt. Olympus

Question 36

What is the way of life of a group of people?

Accepted Answer

culture

Question 37

Egyptian Pharaoh

Accepted Answer

Tutankhamen

Question 38

Who won the Punic Wars?

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 39

Who is perhaps the greatest English author of all time?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespere

Question 40

What are wages compared to the cost of living?

Accepted Answer

real wages

Question 41

What was the piece of land in feudalism called?

Accepted Answer

fief

Question 42

Who discovered the three laws of planetary motion?

Accepted Answer

Johannes Kepler

Question 43

Who was the first medieval pope?

Accepted Answer

Gregory

Question 44

What Greek conqueror spread Hellenic culture throughout all his conquered lands?

Accepted Answer

Alexander

Question 45

What was the first Protestant confession of faith?

Accepted Answer

Augsburg

Question 46

Who produced the first printed edition of the new Testament in the original Greek?

Accepted Answer

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 47

What famous battle was won by William the Conqueror in 1066?

Accepted Answer

Hastings

Question 48

What forbade the importation of British goods into any European country under French control?

Accepted Answer

Continental System

Question 49

In what country did John Knox lead the Protestants?

Accepted Answer

Scotland

Question 50

What English monarch began the English Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 51

Who was Richelieu?

Accepted Answer

Powerful Cardinal

Question 52

What Roman emperor was the first to make a profession of conversion?

Accepted Answer

Constantine

Question 53

The Edict of ? was made by Henry IV to grant toleration to the Huguenots?

Accepted Answer

Nantes

Question 54

What was the Sumerian writing called?

Accepted Answer

Cuneifurm

Question 55

What device was perfected by Samuel Morse?

Accepted Answer

telegraph

Question 56

Who was the conservative group of France's Constituent Assembly?

Accepted Answer

The Right

Question 57

What was Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon?

Accepted Answer

"Sinners in the hand of an angry God"

Question 58

Who succeeded William III as monarch of England?

Accepted Answer

Anne

Question 59

What is it called when you combine Greek philosophy with Roman Theology?

Accepted Answer

Scholasticism

Question 60

The Battle of ? is also known as the "Battle of Nations"

Accepted Answer

Leipzig

Question 61

Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Vasco De Balboa

Question 62

Who painted the Sistine Chapel?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 63

What year on July 14th, did a Paris mob storm the Bastille?

Accepted Answer

1789

Question 64

George Whitefield preached around ? times?

Accepted Answer

18,000

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World History and Cultures Final Test

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