It's amazing how many things we learn in school that we simply forget as adults. Not just trivial things either, we forget some of the most important lessons learned back then that we should carry into adulthood. Learning is actually a lifelong process but for so many of us, we simply abandon it as we get older. We become so set in our lives, with bills to pay and jobs to work that we forget to learn and grow.
Not only do we stop learning but we end up forgetting some of the stuff that we learned in school. Many fully educated adults have problems with this basic middle school history test. Even basic history knowledge that you would think we would carry with us throughout our entire lives is lost to the abyss that is our abandoned memories. To see whether you have retained the information that you learned in middle school, give this history test a go.
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Can You Pass This Basic Middle School History Quiz? Questions
George Washington was the first president of the United States. Who replaced him and became the second in 1797?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
What concentration camp was the largest and had the highest death toll in World War II?
Majdanek
Treblinka
Auschwitz
Sobibor
What explorer attempted to name the Hawaiian Islands the "Sandwich Islands"?
Christopher Columbus
John A. Sandwich
Marco Polo
James Cook
In what century was Genghis Khan born and in what century did he die?
Born in 11th century, died in 12th century
Born in 12th century, died in 13th century
Born in 10th century, died in 11th century
Born in 13th century, died in 14th century
What government organization did Abraham Lincoln create just hours before his assassination?
The Secret Service
Department of Defence
FBI
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
What country was Alexander the Great from?
Egypt
Italy
Greece
England
Who was the last Roman king before the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 B.C.?
Servius Tullius
Romulus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Julius Caesar
How many times was King Henry VIII of England married?
10
3
6
1
What book by Charles Darwin is considered the foundation of evolutionary biology?
The Sacred Balance
Silent Spring
On the Origin of Species
A Brief History of Time
What historical figure spearheaded the Protestant Reformation?
Elizabeth I
Johannes Kepler
John Knox
Martin Luther
Along with Friedrich Engels, who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
During what century did the bubonic plague decimate the population of Europe?
15th century
14th century
13th century
12th century
In addition to "impiety" what was Socrates charged with that ultimately led to him being executed?
Indecent exposure
Treason
Murder
Corrupting youth
What Nobel Prize was awarded to Winston Churchill in 1953?
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel Prize Special Accommodation
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature
In what country was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
Italy
Austria
Germany
England