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Grades 3–5 · British history

British history quiz, Grades 3–5: Stone Age to Iron Age Britain

This quiz helps revise “Stone Age to Iron Age Britain” in British history for grades 3–5. It has 25 questions in five categories: Hunter-Gatherers, First Farmers, Stonehenge, The Bronze Age, The Iron Age. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 8–11
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Stone Age to Iron Age Britain

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Hunter-Gatherers

  1. 100

    What hard sedimentary rock was chipped and flaked to create prehistoric handaxes and sharp arrowheads?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which giant Ice Age mammal, pictured in this museum model, had thick shaggy fur and curved ivory tusks?

  3. 300

    Before Britain became an…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Found in a Somerset…

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  5. 500

    Which Mesolithic site in…

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First Farmers

  1. 100

    Which cereal grain was ground into flour on flat quern stones to bake bread in Britain's first farming villages?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Located in Orkney and shown here, which stone village is northern Europe's best-preserved Neolithic settlement?

  3. 300

    What two-shelved stone cupboard…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What rectangular earthen mounds…

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  5. 500

    What layers of domestic…

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Stonehenge

  1. 100Picture for the question

    In which English county on Salisbury Plain does the famous prehistoric standing stone circle stand?

  2. 200

    On which June day, the longest of the year, does the rising sun line up with Stonehenge's Heel Stone?

  3. 300

    Brought about 150 miles…

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  4. 400

    What hard sandstone blocks…

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  5. 500

    Discovered three miles from…

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The Bronze Age

  1. 100

    To forge bronze, ancient smiths melted and mixed copper with which other silvery metal?

  2. 200

    What circular Bronze Age and Iron Age homes had conical thatched roofs and mud-plastered walls?

  3. 300

    What building technique used…

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  4. 400

    Shown in this museum…

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  5. 500

    Which southwestern peninsula of…

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The Iron Age

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Shown from above, what fortified hilltop strongholds had deep circular ditches and banks to guard tribes?

  2. 200

    What name was given to the respected priests, judges, and teachers who led religious life in Celtic Britain?

  3. 300

    Pictured here, what rigid…

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  4. 400

    Which huge Dorset earthwork…

    In the game
  5. 500

    In what year did…

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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