5TH GRADE HISTORY ABEKA TEST 13(CH.14)

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What is Iceland's nickname?

"Land of Fire and Ice"

What mountains separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe?

Pyrenees

What is Europe's most important inland waterway?

Rhine River

What is the capital of Italy?

Rome

What country makes up the island at the toe of Italy's boot?

Sicily

Where do trees stop growing in the fridge zone?

Timber line

What regions are in the frigid zone above the Arctic Circle?

Tundra

Fjords

What are long narrow inlets of water with high rocky banks?

Germany

What country is the land of Reformation?

"Land of the Midnight Sun"

What is Norway's nickname?

Switzerland

Where are the Alps located?

Switzerland

Where can you find chocolate, watches, cheese, and music boxes?

Netherlands

Where did the pilgrims go before they came to America?

Who was most famous writer from Denmark?

Hans Christian Anderson

What peninsula are Spain and Portugal on?

Iberian

What are temporary snow brick shelters where the Inuits live?

Igloos

What country is the home of the Renaissance?

Italy

What French peasant girl was captured and burned at the stake?

Joan of Arc

Who was the leader of the protestant Reformation in France?

John Calvin

What is the highest active volcano in mainland Europe?

Mt. Vesuvius

Who was an Italian fascist dictator?

Mussolini

What French emperor wanted to rule the world?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Who was the German leader of the National Socialist Party?

Adolf Hitler

What started World War II?

Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer the world.

What is a famous French landmark?

Eiffel Tower

What is the swamp in southern Spain?

The Tidelands

What city in Germany was divided after World War II?

Berlin

What is the capital of Germany?

Berlin

What do Spanish matadors fight?

Bulls

From what country does the legend of William Tell come?

Switzerland

What landlocked country is neutral?

Switzerland

Where does the book Heidi take place?

Switzerland

Who is known for the International Red Cross?

Switzerland

Who was a great scientific genius?

Albert Einstein

What is the capital of Netherlands?

Amsterdam

Galileo

Who was a great Italian scientist?

Name three famous German musicians?

Bach, Handel, Beethoven

What hero from World War II was the president of the fifth republic?

Charles de Gaulle

What country is on the Jutland peninsula?

Denmark

What country became unified again in 1990?

Germany

What is the world's largest island that Denmark owns?

Greenland

Which Italian painted the 'Mona Lisa?'

Leonardo da Vinci

Who taught the world about germs?

Louis Pasteur

The capital of Spain is ___

Madrid

Who was the first man to sail around the world?

Magellan

Who is the first European to take a trip across Asia?

Marco Polo

Which Italian sculptor made 'David' and 'Moses?'

Michelangelo

What is the highest peak in France?

Mont Blanc

What country has tulips, windmills, and low lands?

Netherlands

What country is known for wooden shoes and dikes?

Netherlands

The capital of Norway is ___

Oslo

The capital of France is ___

Paris

Where is the "leaning tower?"

Pisa

What separates the Iberian Peninsula from Africa?

Strait of Gibraltar


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