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SET QUESTIONS 7th

7th Form - Set Questions

1. Which is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s most famous work?

The Social Contract

2. What do you call any change in velocity in the movement of an object?

Acceleration

3. Who was the ruler of Russia before the Russian Revolution?

Tsar Nicholas II

4. Which film made the actor Charles Chaplin famous?

The Tramp

5. Which movement was Martin Luther King Jr. a leader of?

The American Civil Rights Movement

6. Complete this phrase:

Even if the speed of light is constant, …..

Speed is relative to the observer.

7. Name one effect of the Wall Street Crash.

Many companies went out of business

Unemployment         

Some people became homeless

8. Who was the drummer of “The Beatles”?

Ringo Starr

9. John Paul II is known for having opposed which kind of political regimes?

Totalitarian regimes

10.  Which is Neil Bohr’s greatest contribution to physics?

The atom model

An a atom is made up of a small nucleus, positively charged with orbiting electrons

11. What product was made in the Manhattan Project?

The atomic bomb.

12. It was a postwar artistic movement. It started in Berlin and was viewed as anti-art. Which movement is it?

Dadaism

13.  Where was Juan Manuel Fangio born?

Balcarce, Buenos Aires

14. What did the Berlin Wall separate?

Eastern /communist Berlin from Western Berlin

15. In which year was Germany officially reunited and the Berlin Wall pulled down?

1990

16. Who was Earnest Hemingway and which awards did he receive?

He was an American author and journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

17. Who was caught red-handed trying to blow up parliament in 1605?

Guy Fox

18. With five victories to date, what team had won the Fifa World Cup the most times?

Brazil

19.  From what country does Lego come?

Denmark

20. What term is used in tennis for 40-40?

Deuce

21. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Michelangelo

22.  Which indoor sport is the most popular in the US?

Basketball

23. Which of the following was a cubist: Matisse, Renoir, Monet, Picasso?

Picasso

24. What year did the titanic sink?

1912

25. Where was Roald Dahl  living and working by the outbreak of WW II ?

Africa

26. Which national flag features a big, red maple leaf?

Canada.

27. According to official figures released in 2010, what country originated the most refugees during the previous 30 years?

Afghanistan

28. What country was devastated by an earthquake in the Caribbean Sea in 2010?

Haiti

29. At what temperature does water freeze?

0º C

30. How do scientists measure the magnitude of an earthquake?

Using the Richter scale

31. What historical event divides Ancient Times from the Middle Ages?

 The fall of the Western Roman Empire

32. What do we call the process of light bending as it passes from one one kind of matter to another?

Refraction, reflection, absorption

33. Who gave the famous speech “I have a dream”? 

 Martin Luther King Jr.

34. Name three areas for which Leonardo Da Vinci is known for.
Painting, sculpting, architecture, science, mathematics, engineering, 
anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany. 

35. Who is known as “The lady of the lamp”?

Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

               

36. Who won the battle of Hastings?

Duke William of Normandy and the Norman Army. 

37. What was “Apartheid”?

It was the system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation from 1948 to 1994.

38. What was the Treaty of Versailles?

One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.

39. Name the “Big Three” in Greek Philosophy.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

40.  What Shakespeare play served as inspiration for the Disney movie “The Lion King”?

Hamlet

41. What was built to break the siege of Troy?

A wooden horse

42. What is the “Guernica”?

It’s an oil painting by Pablo Picasso showing the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

43. What is known as “The Ides of March”?

The day of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

  

44. Which of the following events did NOT take place during the 20^th Century?

The independence of India – 1^st World War  - The Battle of Waterloo – D Day (Invasion of Normandy)

45. What is Brexit?

The withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.

46. What nationality is Usain Bolt?

Jamaican

47. What planet traditionally included in the Solar System was demoted to “dwarf planet” in 2006?

Pluto

48. Where were the 1^st Olympics held?

Olympia, Greece

SET QUESTIONS 6th

6th Form - Set Questions

1. Complete the phrase, Pope John Paul II declared Saint Therese of Lisieux …….

 A Doctor of the Church.

2. Which two uses of radiation did  Marie Curie and her fellow workers investigate?

The use of radiation to treat cancer and x-rays.

3. What was Madame Curie’s profession?

She was a physicist.

       4. Which two countries fought at the Battle of Trafalgar?

England and France with Spanish support

5. Who was the admiral leading the British Royal Army at the Battle of Trafalgar?

Lord Nelson

6. Who wrote Moby Dick?

Herman Melville

7. What is the Emancipation proclamation of 1863 in the US?

A law that freed all the slaves in the US territory.

8. Why were scientists Fleming, Chain and Florey awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine?

For the discovery of penicillin.

9. What did some prominent citizens of Buenos Aires want to set while Spain settled their problems with France between 1808 y 1810?

They wanted an independent council to run Buenos Aires.

10. Who was Frédéric Chopin?

One of the most famous romantic musicians.

11. Name two of Beethoven’s best-known compositions.

Of his nine symphonies, the Fifth and Ninth symphonies are very popular.

12. What was the name of the London theatre Shakespeare is commonly associated with?  The Globe

13. In what English city was Shakespeare born? When?

In 1564 / Stratford upon Avon

14. Who ruled England in Shakespeare's days?

Queen Elizabeth I

15. Mention 3 plays by Shakespeare.

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 
Hamlet

16. Who was the youngest person to win the Nobel prize?

Malala Yousafzai

17. What king received an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings?

Harold Godwinson

18. In which US city would you find Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx?

New York

19. Which metal is heavier, silver or gold?

Gold

20. Which is the smallest ocean in the world?

The Arctic Ocean

21. When and where was Roald Dahl born ?  

Wales  / United Kingdom ...16th September 1916

22. How did Roald Dahl participate in World War II? 

As a pilot

23. Who was the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean?

Amelia Earhart

24. Who was the last active Pharaoh before Egypt became a Roman Province?

Cleopatra

25. Who is the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate?

Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education

26. What marks the beginning of the Middle Ages?

The fall of Rome.

27. What are Harry’s two best friends’ names in the Harry Potter books?

Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger

28. What are the names of the two rivers in Asia around which the first Mesopotamian civilizations settled?

Euphrates and Tigris.

29.  Who fought at the Battle of Marathon?

Athens against Persia

30.  Where did democracy start?

Athens, Greece.

31. Complete Frida Kahlo’s words: “Feet, what do I need them for…

…if I have wings to fly.

32.  How did Joan of Arc die?

She was burned at the stake, accused of witchcraft and heresy. 

33. Which of the following is not a Roald Dahl book?

Fantastic Mr. Fox – The Hobbit - Boy – Matilda – The witches – Charlie and the chocolate factory

SET QUESTIONS 5th

5th Form - Set Questions

1. Which order did Saint Francis start?

The Order of St. Francis

2. Which is Alexander Graham Bell’s famous invention?

The telephone.

3. In what way did the lower class contribute to the French Revolution taking place?

They wanted to create a new and fairer society.

4. Mention one impressionist artist.

Edgar Degas

Mary Cassat

Claude Monet

Henri Matisse

5. Which organization did Mother Teresa of Calcutta start?

The Missionaries of Charity

6. Mention 1 of Edison’s famous inventions?
The light bulb
The phonograph
The kinetoscope

7. Why did the US Civil war break out?

Because the southern states didn’t want to be part of the United States anymore.

8. What was Beethoven’s job?

He was composer and a pianist.

9. What are the 3 states of matter?

Solid, liquid, gas

10. Expansion is one of the physical changes in matter. What are the other four? Movement, contraction, changes of state, fragmentation

11. Who was Mother Theresa of Calcutta?

She was a nun who lived in India and helped poor people. She has won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.

12. Which is the closest planet to the Sun?

Mercury

13. What is the name given to a large group of stars?

Galaxy

14. In which country in ancient times was mummification carried out on important people when they died?

Egypt

15. Which people travelled in longships and raided Britain from Scandinavia in early medieval times?

The Vikings

16. What title was given to the rulers of Ancient Egypt?

Pharaohs

17. How old was Mozart when he started to write music for flute and piano?

8 years old.

18. Who are the three tenors?

Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.

19. What object did Cinderella lose as she ran away from the ball?

A glass slipper.

20. What nationality was Admiral Brown, commonly known as the father of Argentine navy?

Irish

21. Who invented the airplane?

The Wright brothers

22. What subject identifies Edgar Degas’ paintings?

Ballet dancing.

23. Who helps Sherlock Holmes to solve mysteries?

Dr. John Watson

24. Where would you find the MonaLisa?

At the Louvre, in Paris.