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Jeopardy
The Gold rush version
Gold Rush Questions
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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
Answer
c) 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) Irish
d) 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) disease
b) cave ins
c) death on desert
d) finding nothing
Answer
b) cave ins
7) Why does gold not rust?
a) 90% pure (natural)
b) Not a metal
c) none
d) because it is found underground
Answer
a) 90% pure
(natural)
8) What are one of the minerals often know
as fool's gold
a) Pyrite
b) Gold
c) Asurite
d) Maginite
Answer
a)Pyrite
9) Who were the first people to
make it to California?
a) The Californians
b) The 49ers
c) People who lived the closest to the gold fields.
d) None
Answer
b) The 49ers
10) Which one of these are not one
of the Gold seekers?
a) China
b) Turkey
c) Russia
d) Germany
Answer
c) Russia
11) Was there only 1 gold rush in the world?
a) There were a few
b) There was a lot
c) There are none
d) none
Answer
b) There
was a lot
12) How many countries came
to California?
a) Almost all
b) b) none
c) average
d) A few
Answer
a)Almost all
13) Which people got more money in the
California Gold Rush?
a) Gold miners
b) Trade
c) People selling supplies for the Gold rush
d) Government officials
Answer
c) People selling
supplies
for the Gold rush
14) How much money was found in that time?
a) $100,000,000
b) $10,000,000
c) $0.10
d) $81,000,000
Answer
d) $81,000,000
How many people died in
the California Gold Rush?
a) 18,000
b) 900
c) Not founded
d) No one died
Answer
c) Not
founded
16) When the Gold Rush ended,
why did people go to Nevada
a) Silver was found
b) More gold was found
c) Diamonds were found
d) Had to settle there for good climate
Answer
a) 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 it
he went to Nevada
d) Nothing
Answer
a) He died penniless
18) What happened thanks to the gold rush?
a) California became the thirty first state
b) The first transcontinental railroad was made
c) a and b
d) Nothing
Answer
c) a and b
19) How many gold rushes
are there in the world?
a) A lot
b) Rarely
c) Average
d) None
Answer
a) A lot
15) When the Gold Rush ended
where did everyone go?
a) Virginia
b) Nevada
c) Mexico
d) Stayed
Answer
b) Nevada