History 1

History

1. Who discovered Penicillin?

[Alexander Fleming]

2. Which country did Christopher Columbus discover first, Panama or

Venezuela?

[Venezuela]

3. Who preceded Kofi Annan as UN secretary general?

[Boutros Boutros Gali]

4. Who was Russian Prime Minister from 1991 to 1992?

[Boris Yeltsin]

5. In what year was the Boston Tea Party?

[1773]

6. Which country did Japan invade in 1931?

[Manchuria]

7. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

[1962]

8. When did Abel Tasman discover Tasmania and NZ?

a) 1642

b) 1712

c) 1790

[a)1642]

9. Who discovered Radium?

[Marie Curie]

10. Which country did Nicolae Ceausescu rule from 1965 to 1989? [Romania]