How High Would You Score? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Text book

Text books (course books) are largely written using secondary sources.

Answer: Iron Age

The Iron Age brought better weapons and tools and made life just that little bit easier for our ancestors. It also saw an increase in violence and war, however.

Answer: Crannog

A fulacht fiadh was an oven, a quern was for grinding grain, a souterrain was an underground storage room. A crannog was accommodation built on a man made island at the edge of a lake. The Aztecs had very similar constructions.

Answer: Writing

This is the oldest form of writing in Ireland. It is found on standing stones. Ireland did not use the modern alphabet until the mid fifth century when Christianity came.

Answer: Writing

From the sixth century to the arrival of the Vikings monks spent their time copying and illustrating the Gospels. 'The Book of Kells' is one the most famous surviving manuscripts from that time.

Answer: Patricians

Villas, as their name suggests, were very grand homes, usually in rural areas. Slaves often had their own quarters in these houses. Plebs lived in multi-storey tenements (appartment blocks)called "insulae".

Answer: Squire

The squire was an "apprentice knight", generally aged about 14-21. An apprentice was a learner who lived with a master craftsman and was not paid. A journeyman was a tradesman who was paid for his work on a daily basis. He became a master after making a masterpiece. If it was good enough then he was allowed to open a shop and train apprentices.

Answer: Fire

Roofs were made from straw, so was bedding. Most of the houses were made of timber. A curfew was imposed every night to make sure that fires were quenched.

Answer: False

Master craftsmen formed themselves into guilds to organise trade and maintain standards. Each trade had its own guild.

Answer: Punishment

This involved being publicly punished for minor offences, by having your ankles held in a wooden frame so that you could not move. It was quite common for the citizens to add to your misery by throwing refuse and shouting verbal abuse at you.

Answer: Milan

Ludovico Sforza was Leonardo da Vinci's patron in Milan.

Answer: Statue/painting

The statue/painting shows the dead Christ in His mother's arms. Several artists carved the design but the most famous has to be that of Michaelangelo in the Vatican. Incidently, it was the only statue which Michaelangelo signed.

Answer: Simony

Simony gets its name from Simon Magus who tried to buy the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. It was a cause of scandal at that time and caused many unworthy people to have authority and power in the Church.

Answer: Religious Court

It was a religious court. It used torture and imprisonment for anyone who questioned the teachings of Rome ("heresy") or belonged to a different denomination or religion. Galileo was forced to take back his teachings by the Inquisition.

Answer: Elizabeth I

The policy of plantation was begun on a very small scale in the midlands by Mary Tudor. Following the two Desmond rebellions Elizabeth decided that the only way to control Munster was to oust the native landlords and replace them with landlords who would be loyal to the crown. The plantation was partially successful. Plantation was later used very extensively in the Americas.

Answer: Third Estate

The Third Estate were very angry as they had no say in the government, and paid almost all of the taxes. The first and second estates had most of the national wealth . There was no fourth estate in France. That term was created to describe the press/media by Edmund Burke.

Answer: England had slavery

Coal and iron ore were the basis for the development of industry. Money was essential for investment. Although many work house inmates, especially foundlings, were treated like slaves, they were not slaves.

Answer: Robert Bakewell

Selective breeding of his stock improved his animals and of course also improved the food available to the consumer.

Answer: Home Rule

Home Rule was the dream of Parnell and was within his reach in 1891. He became involved in a divorce case which ruined both his career and any chances for Home Rule for another twenty years.

Answer: Versailles

The'Big Three', Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, and David Lloyd George worked out this treaty and then presented it to the new German government to sign. Separate treaties were concluded with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Answer: Mussolini

Mussolini became the Fascist dictator of Italy in 1922, when the Communist opposition walked out of parliament after the murder of their leader.

Answer: Operation Barbarossa

The initial invasion consisted of three million men attacking on a three-pronged front using Blitzkrieg tactics.

Answer: False

The United Nations was set up in 1945 as a successor to the League of Nations.

Answer: Jack Lynch

Jack Lynch was taoiseach but refused to be a presidential candidate.A taoiseach is really a prime minister, while the president is a figurehead.

Answer: Kennedy

This was the closest the world came to a 'hot' war between the superpowers.