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Quiz about Time Travelling Timothy
Quiz about Time Travelling Timothy

Time Travelling Timothy Trivia Quiz


Timothy has invented a machine that allows him to travel back in time to visit people and places he has read about and to go to events in history that were very significant. Can you help him identify the people, the places and the events?

A multiple-choice quiz by ronny8. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
ronny8
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
343,915
Updated
Apr 22 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
10 / 10
Plays
4473
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. Timothy has gone back in time to the year 1937 and has arrived at the opening of a new cartoon film by a person called Walt Disney. The film is about a princess who is being chased by a jealous queen and who lives in hiding for a while in a forest with seven little miners. What was the title of this film? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Timothy gets back into his time machine and he goes back to the year 1953. He lands on the top of the highest mountain on earth which has just been climbed for the first time ever by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. What was the name of this mountain? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Timothy gets into his time machine and travels further back in time until he lands on the deck of a large ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It is 15th April 1912 and the ship has struck an iceberg and is, sadly, beginning to sink and the passengers are being loaded into lifeboats. What was the name of this ill-fated passenger liner? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Timothy has taken his time machine even further back in time and he has arrived in England during a great battle being fought at a place near Hastings. The two armies are led by King Harold and William, Duke of Normandy. In which year did this battle take place? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Timothy takes his time machine through time and space and lands on the moon on July 20th 1969. He lands at the same time as the very first space mission which landed humans on the moon. What is the name of the man who was first to walk on the surface of the moon? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Timothy took his time machine to the year 1666. It was Sunday 2nd September and Timothy had landed in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, London, England. It was in this building that night that something started which ravaged the city for several days and destroyed almost 80 percent of London. What was it that started that fateful night? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Timothy jumps into his time machine and travels a very long way back in time. His landing spot is on Salisbury Plain in the county of Wiltshire, England. He sees a circular setting of large standing stones within some earthworks. Timothy is very impressed. What do you think he is looking at? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Timothy travelled in his time machine to the year 1687 and he arrived in the city of London in England where he met a great scientist called Isaac Newton. It was during this year that Isaac had put forward his theory of gravity and he told Timothy that he had developed his laws of gravity by watching something falling to the ground in his garden in Lincolnshire. What did Isaac tell Timothy he had seen falling? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Timothy travels in his time machine to a small town in Warwickshire called Stratford-upon-Avon. The year is 1582 when he arrives and in this town Timothy meets a young man who has just got married to a lady called Anne. The man was later to become a playwright and poet and was to be considered by many people as the greatest playwright of all time. Who do you think Timothy met? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Timothy boarded his Time Machine and travelled back in time. He landed in the city of Florence in Italy in the year 1506 where he met a man who was a painter, a sculptor, an engineer, an inventor and an architect. This great man had painted a picture which has become known as The Mona Lisa. Who did Timothy meet? Hint





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1. Timothy has gone back in time to the year 1937 and has arrived at the opening of a new cartoon film by a person called Walt Disney. The film is about a princess who is being chased by a jealous queen and who lives in hiding for a while in a forest with seven little miners. What was the title of this film?

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the very first full-length feature film made by Disney Studios. The seven dwarfs were named Happy, Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey and Bashful.
2. Timothy gets back into his time machine and he goes back to the year 1953. He lands on the top of the highest mountain on earth which has just been climbed for the first time ever by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. What was the name of this mountain?

Answer: Mount Everest

Mount Everest at 29,035 feet (8850 metres) is the highest mountain in the world and is in the country of Nepal. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were both part of a British expedition led by Sir John Hunt.
News of this first ascent reached London in England on the morning of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
3. Timothy gets into his time machine and travels further back in time until he lands on the deck of a large ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It is 15th April 1912 and the ship has struck an iceberg and is, sadly, beginning to sink and the passengers are being loaded into lifeboats. What was the name of this ill-fated passenger liner?

Answer: RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was on its maiden (first) voyage when it struck the iceberg which caused it to sink with the loss of over 1,500 people. There was insufficient space in the lifeboats to save all the passengers.

HMS Victory was the flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson who was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
RMS Lusitania was another passenger liner which was sunk by a German submarine in World War I. The sinking of the Lusitania was thought to have contributed to the entry into World War I by the United States of America since there were a number of American citizens on board when it was sunk.
4. Timothy has taken his time machine even further back in time and he has arrived in England during a great battle being fought at a place near Hastings. The two armies are led by King Harold and William, Duke of Normandy. In which year did this battle take place?

Answer: 1066

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14th October 1066 between the Norman-French Army of Duke William II of Normandy and an English Army under King Harold II. The battle was won by William who later became known as William the Conqueror. The brave King Harold was killed during the battle.
5. Timothy takes his time machine through time and space and lands on the moon on July 20th 1969. He lands at the same time as the very first space mission which landed humans on the moon. What is the name of the man who was first to walk on the surface of the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was born in Ohio, USA and he became an astronaut. He was Commander of the famous Apollo 11 mission which landed on the moon. He was accompanied by Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, who was the second man to walk on the moon, and Michael Collins, who was the command module pilot.
6. Timothy took his time machine to the year 1666. It was Sunday 2nd September and Timothy had landed in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, London, England. It was in this building that night that something started which ravaged the city for several days and destroyed almost 80 percent of London. What was it that started that fateful night?

Answer: The Great Fire of London

Although the Great Fire of London was a disaster which destroyed 13,000 homes and 89 churches with the loss of a number of lives there were some eventual benefits. The city was rebuilt with wider streets and stronger buildings. Many of the rats carrying the dreaded bubonic plague were killed in the fire.
There was a monument built to commemorate the fire and this can be seen to this day to remind people of what happened. This landmark known simply as The Monument is said to be placed such that if it should ever fall over it would point to the exact spot where the fire began.
7. Timothy jumps into his time machine and travels a very long way back in time. His landing spot is on Salisbury Plain in the county of Wiltshire, England. He sees a circular setting of large standing stones within some earthworks. Timothy is very impressed. What do you think he is looking at?

Answer: Stonehenge

Stonehenge is very famous. It is believed to have been built around 4000 years ago. It consists of around 80 stones standing in a circle with 5 capping stones which create arches. There is still a lot of mystery about how Stonehenge was built all that time ago and what it was used for.
8. Timothy travelled in his time machine to the year 1687 and he arrived in the city of London in England where he met a great scientist called Isaac Newton. It was during this year that Isaac had put forward his theory of gravity and he told Timothy that he had developed his laws of gravity by watching something falling to the ground in his garden in Lincolnshire. What did Isaac tell Timothy he had seen falling?

Answer: An apple from a tree

Many people think that Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest geniuses to have ever lived. He was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and theologian. It is not actually known if the story of the apple is completely true but it does serve to illustrate the theory of gravitation quite well.
9. Timothy travels in his time machine to a small town in Warwickshire called Stratford-upon-Avon. The year is 1582 when he arrives and in this town Timothy meets a young man who has just got married to a lady called Anne. The man was later to become a playwright and poet and was to be considered by many people as the greatest playwright of all time. Who do you think Timothy met?

Answer: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the year 1564 so he was only 18 years old when Timothy met him in 1582. His first poems and plays were published whilst he was living in London in the 1590s. He wrote many great plays which are still performed all over the World today.

J.K. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter books.
Charles Dickens was a great English author who lived during the nineteenth century.
William Wordsworth was one of the most influential of England's poets.
10. Timothy boarded his Time Machine and travelled back in time. He landed in the city of Florence in Italy in the year 1506 where he met a man who was a painter, a sculptor, an engineer, an inventor and an architect. This great man had painted a picture which has become known as The Mona Lisa. Who did Timothy meet?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello were all artists or sculptors who lived around the same time as Leonardo da Vinci.
Source: Author ronny8

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