Statistics for Really Early History of the World Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 184 times
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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
2494 BC	This statue consisting of a lion body and a human head is completed in Giza	Great Sphinx	87%
2104 BC	If we count the years in the Bible, this must be the year in which this man survived a world-engulfing flood on an Ark	Noah	85%
c. 4000 BC	This equine animal is domesticated	Horse	84%
c. 5000 BC	This Asian staple food is cultivated in China	Rice	83%
c. 4000 BC	The brewing of this beverage is developed	Beer	82%
3114 BC	The calendar of this civilization is introduced, it was supposed to end in 2012 AD but nothing happened	Maya	81%
21st century BC	This patriarch of Judaism, Christianism and Islam is alive	Abraham	79%
c. 5000 BC	This island is separated from the Australian mainland	Tasmania	79%
c. 4500 BC	This circular component, widely regarded as the most important invention of all time is created	Wheel	79%
33rd century BC	This region in Northern Africa becomes one of the most unpleasant ones to live in	Sahara	72%
c. 3200 BC	This important medium of communication is established	Writing	72%
c. 6000 BC	This island is separated from the European mainland	Great Britain	70%
c. 14,000 BC	These American freshwater lakes begin to form	Great Lakes	69%
c. 2600 BC	This civilization begins to dominate the island of Crete	{Minoan} Civilization	67%
c. 7500 BC	This animal is domesticated in Egypt and Cyprus	Cat	66%
c. 5900 BC	This strategically important Mediterranean island is settled for the first time	Malta	66%
c. 10,000 BC	This land bridge connecting Asia with the Americas collapses	Beringia	63%
c. 1,500,000 BC	Mankind is able to produce this heat-making reaction	Fire	63%
c. 9000 BC	This Palestinian city becomes the first one to be classified as a city (its walls fell when Joshua's army blowed their trumpets)	Jericho	63%
c. 3600 BC	First evidence of this puffed up corn	Popcorn	61%
c. 1,800,000 BC	This continent is settled for the first time	Eurasia	60%
2333 BC	According to legend, Gojoseon becomes the first kingdom on this peninsula	Korea	59%
c. 40,000 BC	This species of "Homo", named after a German valley, goes extinct	Neanderthals	58%
c. 2500 BC	This Mesopotamian kingdom is established	Assyria	56%
3051 BC	A bristlecone pine is planted in this present-day American state, it still survives	California	56%
c. 10,000,000 BC	The Indian subcontinent collides with Asia, creating this mountain range	Himalayas	56%
c. 4,510,000,000 BC	This natural satellite of the Earth is formed	the Moon	56%
c. 20,000,000 BC	These tall animals evolve	Giraffes	55%
13,800,000,000 BC	Scientifically spoken, this creates the universe	Big Bang	51%
c. 175,000,000 BC	This supercontinent begins to break apart	Pangea	51%
c. 4,570,000,000 BC	This system - of which the Earth is part of - is formed	{Solar} System	51%
c. 640,000 BC	This American supervolcano erupts	Yellowstone	51%
c. 65,000,000 BC	A great asteroid collides with the earth, marking the end of this era	Age of the {Dinosaurs}	49%
c. 8500 BC	This southernmost part of South America is settled	Tierra del Fuego	46%
c. 4,300,000,000 BC	Earliest evidence for life and minerals in this modern-day country	Australia	40%
c. 530,000,000 BC	First evidence of these water animals. At this date, every organism on this planet lives in the water.	Fish	38%
c. 3300 BC	This man dies in the Austrian Alps, his mummy was discovered in 1991 AD	Ötzi	37%
27th century BC	This man is the first architect and doctor in history	Imhotep	34%
4004 BC	According to James Usher, God creates this on October 22 at 6pm	the Universe	29%
c. 420,000,000 BC	This biological class (today the largest class on Earth) evolves	Insects	27%
c. 28,500 BC	This South East Asian island is settled	New Guinea	26%
2566 BC	This man who built the highest pyramid in the world dies	Cheops	20%
2215 BC	This comet visits the inner solar system. He appears again in 1997 AD	Hale-Bopp	20%
c. 6,000,000 BC	This is the last common ancestor of the humans (homo)	Chimpanzee (pan)	15%
c. 2,100,000,000 BC	Earliest evidence of these organisms whose cells have a nucleus	Eukaryotes	15%
c. 75,000 BC	This Sumatran volcano erupts. Only 3,000 humans on the whole world survive.	Toba	15%
c. 2600 BC	This oddly-shaped pyramid is built by pharaoh Sneferu	{Bent} Pyramid	14%