Transcript Who wants to Be a Millionairex

Rules for the Game
Only one person at a time in the Chair at a
time.
 You have a total of five life lines:

 2 “Fifty-fifty’s”
 2 “Ask the Audience”
 1 “Phone a Friend” (remember no cell phones on
school grounds)

Which ever class scores the most points wins!
Round One
The Age of Exploration
1) All of the following inventions helped early
European explorers navigate at sea except
the __________.
a) Rudder
b) Compass
c) Astrolabe
d) Steam engine
2) Why did Europeans risk their lives sailing
to the unknown?
a) Europeans wanted to find a water passage to
India and China for goods
b) Europeans wanted to test their new
navigational equipment
c) Europeans were looking for North and South
America
d) Europeans were looking for rich farmland to
grow spices
3) What was the effect of Europeans finding
new lands?
a) The explorers carried diseases from the Native
Americans back to Europe
b) The explorers enslaved Native Americans and
Africans.
c) The explorers encouraged missionaries to
adopt native American’s beliefs
d) Europeans didn’t change the society that was
already in place
Question 4 - Matching
An instrument that measures the magnetic
north.
2. An instrument used in astronomy that
measures latitude.
3. A ship that could navigate against the wind.
4. Invented by the Chinese around 900 A.D. that
exploded when lit.
1.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Caravel
Compass
Astrolabe
Gunpower
5) Which of the following was not a reason
spices from Asia were so expensive?
a) dangers and instability along the Silk Road
b) the expensive middle men who charge
excessive/high taxes on goods
c) collapse of the Byzantine Empire
(Constantinople) to the Ottoman Turks
d) European kings added expensive taxes to
cover the cost of war with the United States
Answers
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
D
A
B
Matching 1) B; 2) C; 3) A;
4) D
D
Round Two
European Exploration and Expansion into
the Americas
6) Who was the Italian sailor that mistakenly
believed he had landed on the islands off the
coast of India, but had actually landed in the
Americas?
a) Amerigo Vespuci
b) The Incredible Mr. Whitfield
c) Vasco da Gama
d) Christopher Columbus
7) Prince Henry the Navigator was very
interested in exploration. He gathered the
best scientists, cartographer or _________,
and experts to explore the African coast.
a) Ship builder
b) Crayon eater
c) Map drawer
d) Booger eater
8) The term circumnavigate means to sail
completely around the world. Who was the
first person to accomplish this feat?
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Francis Drake
d) Christopher Columbus
9) Who was the Spanish conquistador
(conqueror) that claimed land in the Americas
by conquering Aztec land for Spain?
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Miguel Hildalgo
c) Francisco Pizzaro
d) Hernan Cortez
10) Spain and Portugal fought over land in the
New World, so the pope stepped in to solve the
problem by drawing the ___________, which
created boundaries for which lands the
countries could settle.
a) Line of No Return
b) Line Item Veto
c) Line of Demarcation
d) Line of Conquest
Bonus
11) ________explored the southern tip of Africa
while _________finally rounded the tip of Africa
reaching the coast of India.
a) Francis Drake; Sir Walter Raleigh
b) Bartholomeu Dias; Vasco da Gama
c) Ferdinand Magellan; Amerigo Vespuci
d) Tim “the Toolman” Taylor; Al Borland
Answers
6) D
7) C
8) B
9) D
10) C
11) B
Round Three
Effects of European Powers in Africa
12) The trade between Europe, colonies in
the Americas, and Africa was known as the
___________.
a) New Deal
b) Triangular Trade
c) Trans-Atlantic Trade
d) East India Company
13) The second part of the Triangle Trade
where enslaved or captured Africans were
transported from Africa to the Americas on
crowded ships was called the
____________.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Middle passage
East India Company
High passage
14) All of the following played an important
role in the triangle trade except for
________.
a) Enslaved Africans
b) Guns
c) Tobacco
d) Asian spices
15) Why were Africans taken to the colonies
in the Americas?
a) To decrease warfare among Africans
b) The Native American population was too large
to control
c) African were needed to work on the
plantations
d) The Europeans needed Africans to help fight
the Native Americans
16) All of the following were true of the
Atlantic slave trade except _________.
a) It decreased warfare among Africans
b) It gave rise to racism in the Americas
c) It robbed African societies of their
population
d) It contributed to the success of European
colonies in the Americas
Answers
12) B
13) B
14) D
15) C
16) A
Round Four
Effects of European Powers in Africa
17) What type of colony was established
by early explorers as outpost for the sole
purpose of trade?
a) Plantation Colony
b) Settler Colony
c) Producing Colony
d) Trading Post Empire
18) What type of colony was established for
the sole purpose of producing cash crops, or
one or two products grown for profit?
a) Plantation Colony
b) Settler Colony
c) Producing Colony
d) Trading Post Empire
19) What type of colony was established in
hopes of attracting enough people to
establish a territory that could be governed
by the homeland?
a) Plantation Colony
b) Settler Colony
c) Producing Colony
d) Trading Post Empire
20) Goods you sell to other countries are
called __________, and goods you buy from
other countries are called ________.
a) Import; export
b) Buy in; sell out
c) Export; import
d) Tariff; inflation
21) What was the importance of the
Columbian Exchange?
a) Christopher Columbus landed on the islands
in the Caribbean
b) Native American diseases were sent to
Europe and many became sick
c) The Columbian Exchange stopped trading
with other European countries
d) Goods, ideas, technology, plants, and animals
were introduced to areas of the world
Answers
17) D
18) A
19) B
20) C
21) D
Round Five
Effects of European Powers in Africa
22) European economic thinkers came up with
a theory to explain how trading nations could
earn wealth called mercantilism. The goal of
mercantilism was to ________.
a) Build up gold and silver through trade
b) Increase taxes on exported goods
c) Take Mr. Whitfield’s lunch money to buy candy
d) Attack enemy ships off the coast of Somalia
23) What is Capitalism?
a) Government controls the amount of goods
produced
b) People, rather than governments, own property,
make goods, and buy and sell them freely in an
open market
c) Employees rather than business owners control
the amount of goods that are produced
d) A type of government in which 7th graders control
all of society and results in the end of the world
24) Capitalism works on the principle of supply
and demand. Which is usually true of supply
and demand?
a) As supply goes up, prices go up
b) As demand goes up, prices go down
c) As demand goes up, prices go up
d) As I eat too much, my pants get too tight
25) The buying and selling of goods in large
quantities over long distances is called
_______.
a) Commerce
b) Socialism
c) Not this one
d) Joint-Stock Company
26) What helped the middle class to grow?
a) The nobles sold land to poor peasants at
extremely high prices
b) More people started their own businesses as
merchants or artisan
c) Peasants made less money
d) More people started winning the lottery
27) Who is the Scottish philosopher associated
with the creating the idea of Capitalism?
a) Adam Smith
b) Earl “the Pearl” Monroe
c) Karl Marx
d) Peter Piper
Answers
22) A
23) B
24) C
25) A
26) B
27) A