Database Quiz 4: World History (Feb. 4-March 2)

Databases: History Resource Center: World, Europa World, Ebsco's History Reference Center
Quiz 4: World History

List of questions:
1. What disease plagued Europe in 1021?
2. In what Eastern Bloc country were the Romany (gypsies) first allowed to elect their own minority governing body?
3. Where did Vasco da Gama believe that he’d found “Indian Christians”?
4. What two prominent eastern philosophers lived during the reign of the Zhou dynasty?
5. What was the Hittite word for “repairman”?
6. What was the name of the first political party to win a general election in Barbados?
7. Where did Vlad III win his last battle against the Turks in 1462?
8. When did the first known European gunpowder recipes appear, and who wrote them?
9. What left-wing political alliance formed in Mexico in 1987?
10. There are many “Great Flood” stories in addition to that of Noah and the Ark. Name the heroes of three of them.

One of our goals for 2009 is to encourage the use and increase the awareness of the information found in the databases. To get staff more familiar with what is in some of our databases, we thought an incentive of a prize would be good. :-) So, each month we are going to post questions on survey monkey about a particular subject. You must use the databases to answer these questions. As long as you are a staff person at BPL, you may enter.

The rules:

Answer all questions in the quiz.
You may enter only one time per quiz.
If your answers are correct, you name will go into a drawing.
One name will be pulled for each quiz from the group of correctly answered surveys.
The winner will receive a $20 gift certificate, probably to Wal-Mart.
The winner will be posted on the staff blog and will need to claim his/her prize. (to get you to look at the staff blog as well!)

You have until 5:00 p.m. on March 2nd to complete the quiz. Trying to find the answers will hopefully help you become more proficient in using the databases.

At the end of the year, we will put all winners in the hat for a chance to win a larger prize (yet to be determined, but good).

For the public, we will highlight these same databases with bookmarks and information on the website the following month. After doing the quizzes, you will be expert in helping them or answering their questions.