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History quiz for grade 5: What is history: sources and calendars

This quiz helps revise “What is history: sources and calendars” in History for grade 5. It has 25 questions in five categories: Traces of the Past, Find and Preserve, Measuring Time, The Timeline, Calendars. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 10–11
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: What is history: sources and calendars

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.

Traces of the Past

  1. 100

    What do historians call objects, records and accounts that tell us about the past?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What kind of historical source is the clay pot in the picture?

  3. 300

    What kind of historical…

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  4. 400

    What kind of historical…

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  5. 500

    What kind of source…

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Find and Preserve

  1. 100

    What do we call a scholar who studies the human past?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which specialist is carefully uncovering an ancient find in the picture?

  3. 300

    What is an institution…

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  4. 400

    What do we call…

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  5. 500

    What do we call…

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Measuring Time

  1. 100

    How many months are in a calendar year?

  2. 200

    What is a period of ten years called?

  3. 300

    How many years…

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  4. 400

    What is a period…

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  5. 500

    What is the study…

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The Timeline

  1. 100

    Which year came first, 1700 or 1800?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which year is marked by the gold dot on the timeline?

  3. 300

    Which century covers the…

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  4. 400

    The picture shows years…

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  5. 500

    Which year came…

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Calendars

  1. 100

    What do we call a chart that organises the days, weeks and months of a year?

  2. 200

    Which month has only 28 days in a common year?

  3. 300

    The picture highlights an…

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  4. 400

    What kind of calendar…

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  5. 500

    Which calendar is used…

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