Jeopardy

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Gold Rush Questions

1) Why is gold so valuable?  

 a) It is good for food b) It is very malleable

 c) It is brittle  d) you can eat it 

Answer b) It is very malleable

2) Who found the gold?  

 a) Abraham Lincoln b) George Meade  c) James Marshall

 d) John Sutter

Answerc) James Marshall

3) How did the Gold Rush start out?

 a) Not much, really b) A Whole bunch of people came  

 c) No one came at all d) none of these

Answer a) Not much,

really

4) What race came first besides Americans?  

a) Chinese b) b) Spanish 

c) Irishd) Americans

Answer a)Chinese

5)When did the Gold Rush end?   

 a) 1845 b) 1850 c) 1855  d)1899

Answer  c) 1855

6)What are the consequences of getting gold?  

a) diseaseb) cave ins

c) death on desertd) finding nothing 

Answerb) cave ins

7) Why does gold not rust?  

a) 90% pure (natural)b) Not a metal

c) noned) because it is found underground

Answera) 90% pure

(natural)

8) What are one of the minerals often know as fool's gold

a) Pyrite b) Gold

c) Asurited) Maginite

Answera)Pyrite

9) Who were the first people to

make it to California?    

a) The Californiansb) The 49ers

c) People who lived the closest to the gold fields.d) None 

Answerb) The 49ers

    

10) Which one of these are not one of the Gold seekers?

a) Chinab) Turkey c) Russia

d) Germany  

Answerc) Russia

11) Was there only 1 gold rush in the world?  

a) There were a fewb) There was a lotc) There are none

d) none

Answerb) There was a lot

12) How many countries came to California?

 a) Almost all

b) b) nonec) average d) A few

 

Answera)Almost all

13) Which people got more money in the California Gold Rush?

a) Gold minersb) Trade

c) People selling supplies for the Gold rush d) Government officials

Answerc) People selling

supplies for the Gold rush

14) How much money was found in that time?

a) $100,000,000b) $10,000,000

c) $0.10d)  $81,000,000

Answerd)  $81,000,000

How many people died in the California Gold Rush?

a) 18,000b) 900c) Not foundedd) No one died  

Answerc) Not

founded

16) When the Gold Rush ended, why did people go to Nevada

a) Silver was found b) More gold was foundc) Diamonds were found

d) Had to settle there for good climate 

Answera) Silver was found

17) What happened to James Marshall

when the Gold Rush ended.  

a) He died penniless b) He kept some gold for himself

c) when he discovered ithe went to Nevada

d) Nothing

 

Answer a) He died penniless

 

18) What happened thanks to the gold rush?  

a) California became the thirty first stateb) The first transcontinental railroad was made 

c) a and bd) Nothing

Answerc) a and b

 19) How many gold rushes

are there in the world? 

a) A lotb) Rarely

c) Averaged) None

Answera) A lot

15) When the Gold Rush ended where did everyone go?  

a) Virginiab) Nevada c) Mexicod) Stayed

Answerb) Nevada