This document contains a history quiz with definitions and terms to test knowledge of important people, events, discoveries, and years from history. The quiz includes definitions for key events like the Industrial Revolution and Cold War, people like John F. Kennedy and Mother Teresa, discoveries like penicillin, places like Munich and Pearl Harbor, and years like 1950, 1985 and 1989. The document provides instructions for teachers to use the quiz either with the whole class or by dividing students into groups to test their understanding of the definitions.

1. Language Focus / Aims : Practice of vocabulary related to history Notes (and their location) : Level : Master 2 Title: M2U9historyquiz Credits : Microsoft Gallery

2. History Quiz What’s the definition?

3. Period when industry developed rapidly with the advent of steam power and the growth of factories.

4. The Industrial Revolution

5. Period of intense military and political rivalry that ended with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.

6. The Cold War

7. The 35 th president of the United States, who was assassinated in1963.

8. John F. Kennedy

9. Woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, who cared for the destitute of India through her Order of the Missionaries of Charity.

10. Mother Teresa

11. Movie actor, director, producer, and writer who is considered the Master of the silent screen.

12. Charlie Chaplin

13. The dictator of Cuba, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.

14. Fidel Castro

15. Powerful antibiotic discovered from a contaminated experiment by Alexander Fleming.

16. P enicillin

17. City that held the Olympic Games which was attacked by terrorists in 1972.

18. Munich

19. Place in Hawaii attacked by Japan in 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.

20. Pearl Harbor

21. President of Brazil elected by a majority of the members of the Congress who died just one day before he was scheduled to take the oath of office in 1985.

22. Tancredo Neves

23. Year when Brazil lost the Football World Cup while playing as the host nation.

24. 1950

25. Year when the Berlin Wall fell.

26. 1989

27. The Industrial Revolution

28. Period when industry developed rapidly with the advent of steam power and the growth of factories.

29. The Cold War

30. Period of intense military and political rivalry that ended with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.

31. John F. Kennedy

32. The 35 th president of the United States, who was assassinated in1963.

33. Mother Teresa

34. Woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, who cared for the destitute of India through her Order of the Missionaries of Charity.

35. Charlie Chaplin

36. Movie actor, director, producer, and writer who is considered the Master of the silent screen.

37. Fidel Castro

38. The dictator of Cuba, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.

39. P enicillin

40. Powerful antibiotic discovered from a contaminated experiment by Alexander Fleming.

41. Munich

42. City that held the Olympic Games which was attacked by terrorists in 1972.

43. Pearl Harbor

44. Place in Hawaii attacked by Japan in 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.

45. Tancredo Neves

46. President of Brazil elected by a majority of the members of the Congress who died just one day before he was scheduled to take the oath of office in 1985.

47. 1950

48. Year when Brazil lost the Football World Cup while playing as the host nation.

49. 1989

50. Year when the Berlin Wall fell.

51. Notes to teachers History Quiz Play this quiz with the class as a whole or as a competition between groups. Show a card with a definition and elicit the answer. Click to see the answer on the other side of the card. Move on to the next card and repeat procedures. What’s the definition? The History Quiz played in the opposite way, showing the answer for Sts to provide the definition.