History Quiz Matching

A) It was the first major civil engineering work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, an engineering genius and innovator. In 1833 the 27-year-old engineer was chosen to superintend the construction of the Bristol-London part, which would retain until consolidation into the nationwide system in 1948. It was the first major civil engineering work to be designed, directed, and completed by Brunel.
B) He was сhancellor to Henry II of England and then аrchbishop of Canterbury. He repeatedly clashed with his sovereign over the relationship between the Crown and Church. He was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral.
He is sometimes referred to as Saint Thomas of Canterbury.
C) a network of houses and other places that a group of people in the US used to illegally help slaves to become free by helping them to escape to the northern US and Canada in the period before the Civil War
D) an accomplished cavalry commander, then head of Parliament's New Model Army, and finally Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The latter title was awarded to him for life after the bloody conclusion of the English Civil Wars and the execution of King Charles I of England.
E) an area where the air pressure is very low
F) some school teachers’ humorous rhyme of Henry VIII’s record number of wives
G) a Bavarian immigrant who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 during the Gold Rush, bringing dry goods for sale to miners. Hearing of the miners’ need for durable pants, he hired a tailor to make garments out of tent canvas.
H) the Vikings
I) the Romans
J) some school teachers’ humorous rhyme of Charles I Stuart’s wives
K) From his laboratories emanated the phonograph, the carbon-button transmitter for the telephone speaker and microphone, the incandescent lamp, the first commercial electric light and power system, an experimental electric railroad, and key elements of motion-picture apparatus.
L) It lasted from 1929 to 1941 and was a severe economic downturn caused by an overextended stock market and a drought that struck the South of the country. Despite the government’s help, it was the increased production needed for World War II that finally ended it.
M) He was Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England who was executed for his refusal to endorse Henry's break of the Church in England from the Catholic Church in Rome. His most famous work today being Utopia which includes a philosophical description of an ideal society set on an island.
N) not having a problem or difficulty any longer

1.
Oliver Cromwell –
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2.
But ________ came with a heavy hand,
And bridged and roaded and ruled the land….
R. Kipling –
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3.
Thomas Edison –
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4.
The Great Depression –
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5.
Levi Strauss –
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6.
out of the woods –
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7.
1) divorced, 2) beheaded, 3) died, 4) divorced, 5) beheaded, 6) survived. –
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8.
Underground Railroad –
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9.
Sir Thomas More –
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10.
The Great Western Railroad –
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