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Q1 | Quizzer Data File, type 1, for ON DISK MONTHLY
Archaeology Quiz
Copyright 1993 Softdisk, Inc.
Sean Golden | Author credit
81 | ODM Issue number of publication. Use "." to omit.
50 | # questions in quiz
Who discovered King Tut's tomb?
Howard Carter
Sir Arthur Evans
Leonard Woolley
Kathleen Kenyon
Henrich Schliemann
The highest navigable lake in the world is __________.
Lake Titicaca
Loch Ness
Crater Lake
Lake Baykal
Great Bear Lake
The Great Lakes are believed to be the result of __________.
extensive glaciation
a large meteor
a great earthquake
Noah's Flood
a volcanic eruption
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed the cities of Herculaneum ~
and __________.
Pompeii
Alexandria
Rome
Babylon
Baghdad
Thousands of years ago Asiatics first crossed the __________ ~
Straits into the Americas.
Bering
Magellan
Gibraltar
Bosporus
Dardanelles
The Garden of Eden is thought to have been between the Tigris ~
and __________ rivers.
Euphrates
Murat
Jordan
Nile
Amazon
According to some "experts" ancient "runways" for spaceships are ~
found in __________.
The Plains of Nazca
Death Valley
The Great Pyramid
The Florida Everglades
Stonehenge
What famous stone monument was built on Salisbury Plain?
Stonehenge
Great Pyramids
The Sphinx
Hadrian's Wall
Machu Picchu
The __________ unlocked the secrets of the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
Great Pyramids
Code of Hammurabi
Library at Alexandria
Dead Sea Scrolls
What is the largest man-made object in the world?
The Great Wall of China
The World-Trade Center
The Eiffel Tower
The Great Pyramids
Taj Mahal
The Phoenicians derived their name from the Greek word phoinix, ~
meaning __________.
purple
pheasant
resurrection
wig-wearer
sausage
Which famous Egyptian Pharaoh died in 1352 BC at the young age of 19?
Tutankhamon
Cleopatra
Ramses II
Ptolemy
Imhotep
The Great Sphinx is a likeness of King Chephren as a human-headed __________.
lion
bear
wolf
griffon
dragon
In 1911 AD, "________," the lost city of the Incas was found in ~
the Peruvian Andes.
Machu Picchu
El Dorado
Rapa Nui
Lima
Tenochtitlan
Alphabetic writing was originated by the __________ people.
Phoenician
Greek
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Cuneiform writing originated in __________.
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Rome
Egypt
Alexander's Greece
In what city is the Ark of the Covenant thought to be located?
Jerusalem
Tannis
Alexandria
Jericho
Rome
What's the oldest civilization in Africa?
Egypt
Phoenicia
Sumeria
Nubia
Babylonia
What did the Anasazi live in?
Cliff Dwellings
Grass Huts
Teepees
Wigwams
Igloos
The Shang Dynasty is best known for this writing innovation at ~
about 1600 BC.
Pictograms
Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform
Runic
Braille
Conspicuous by its absence in the Incan culture was this ~
prehistoric invention.
Wheel
Fire
Lever
Sling
Canoe
The Archimedes screw is a simple machine used to lift __________.
water
stone
grain
spirits
wood
The collapsed Minoan civilization on the isle of Crete is ~
probably the basis for what fabled civilization?
Atlantis
Barsoom
Troy
Shangri-La
Xanadu
The __________ were the first people in the world to use iron on ~
a large scale.
Hittites
Amorites
Canaanites
Chinese
Mongols
The golden __________ became the world's first reliable ~
international monetary unit of exchange.
daric
eagle
doubloon
drachma
shekel
The servants of __________ kings and queens were put to death ~
when their rulers died and were buried in the same tombs.
Sumerian
Hittite
Viking
Mayan
Iroquois
The Hanging Gardens of __________ are considered one of the ~
Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Babylon
Jerusalem
Constantinople
Rhodes
Addis Ababa
What weapon was the foundation of English success in the Hundred ~
Years' War?
Longbow
Mace
Long Sword
Cannon
Atom Bomb
In 1271 AD __________ set out from Venice to China.
Marco Polo
Charles Darwin
Eric the Red
Christopher Columbus
John Cook
The Phoenicians and __________ are thought to have been the ~
first to sail to the Americas.
Minoans
Babylonians
Chinese
Vikings
Greeks
What class of weapons rendered castles obsolete as defensive ~
positions?
Artillery
Nuclear bombs
Crossbows
Javelins
Chemical
The golden age of Celtic Ireland was ended around 900 AD by __________ raids.
Viking
German
Mongol
Roman
American
Around 600 AD the __________ devised a calendar of the solar year ~
that was more accurate than one devised by the Europeans of the time.
Maya
Tlingits
Sioux
Jewish nation
Incas
The manufacture of __________ began about 200 AD in China.
porcelain
gunpowder
plastic
rubber
bronze
In Mexico about 31 BC, the __________ devised an accurate system ~
of measuring time.
Olmecs
Anasazi
Aztecs
Mayans
Spanish
__________ was the offspring of 12 generations of brother-sister marriages.
Cleopatra
Alexander
Tutankhamon
Ramses II
Henry VIII
Linear A (untranslated) and Linear B were scripts developed by ~
the __________ people.
Minoan
Ethiopian
Japanese
Viking
Sicilian
The forerunner to paper, papyrus, was developed by the __________.
Egyptians
Phoenicians
Greeks
Romans
Aztecs
Temple-towers in Mesopotamia were called __________.
ziggurats
pyramids
altars
pagodas
obelisks
The space age began in 1957 AD with the launching of _________.
Sputnik
Apollo
Soyuz
Deimos
Vostok
__________ was perfected for use in battle about 500 years after ~
its first use in China.
Gunpowder
Archery
Sonar
The Guillotine
Nitroglycerine
The most important invention of the Middle Ages was the __________.
printing press
cotton gin
steam engine
windmill
assembly line
_________ are credited with the discovery of the elements ~
antimony, arsenic, bismuth, and phosphorus, among others.
Alchemists
Physicists
Astrologers
Physicians
Phrenologists
The discovery of __________ in 1867 AD led to the Boer War.
diamonds
gold
silver
platinum
ivory
This ancient hunting weapon may have allowed prehistoric Indians of North America to hunt bison and mammoth.
Atlatl
Boomerang
Javelin
Bow and arrow
Blow gun
Puppetry and __________ theater was at its height in Japan in the early 1700s.
kobuki
samurai
ballet
origami
hari kari
Shah Jahan built the __________ as a tomb for his wife.
Taj Mahal
Sphinx
Great Pyramids
Parthenon
Labyrinth
__________ from 1347-50 AD killed three-quarters of Europe's population.
The Black Death
A Mongol invasion
The Great Flood
Scarlet Fever
The Third Reich
__________ Island is the home for big rock heads.
Easter
Christmas
Vancouver
Bikini
Ryker's
The lotus and __________ are Buddhist symbols originating in India.
reverse swastika
inverted cross
ankh
six-pointed star
rose