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Question 1

Why is the Westminster Palace clock called ‘Big Ben’?

After Sir Benjamin Hall, a large man who was the chief commissioner in 1859.

Question 2

In the 16th century King Henry VIII hunted wild animals in this park.

Hyde Park

Question 3

The second oldest university in the UK is in …

Cambridge.

Question 4

What islands did the British recapture from Argentina in 1982?

 

The Falkland Islands.

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Question 5

What theatre did Shakespeare write most of

his plays for?

The Globe Theatre.

Question 6

What group is responsible for the so-called “pop revolution”

in the West?

The Beatles.

Question 7

What was Benjamin Britten?

A composer.

Question 8

What were the letters of the Anglo-Saxons called?

“Runes”.  

Question 9

 

Where is the Poets’ Corner ?

In Westminster Abbey.

Question 10

Where does Royal Shakespeare Company perform?

At Stratford-on-Avon.

Question 11

What is the oldest public school in England?

Eton.

Question 12

Who set up the first English printing-press in Westminster?

William Caxton.

Question 13

What is the largest museum in G.B.?

The British Museum.

Question 14

What book did Herbert Wells choose to send to Leo

Tolstoy?

The War of the Worlds”.

Question 15

What are the principal characters of Bernard Shaw’s

play “Pygmalion?

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins.

Question 16

Who is considered the national poet of Scotland?

Robert Burns.

Question 17

Who is the main hero of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”?

Mowgli.

Question 18

Who is called by the British people “Our National Bard”,

“The Bard of Avon”?

William Shakespeare.

Question 19

What is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray?

“Vanity Fair”.

Question 20

Who was the greatest satirist of the age of Enlightenment?

Jonathan Swift

Question 21

What is the first of Shakespeare’s great

tragedies?

“Romeo and Juliet”.

Question 22

Who is the first English humanist of the Renaissance?

Thomas More.

Question 23

Who is the most popular hero of the English ballads?

Robin Hood.

Question 24

What war lasted from 1337 to 1453?

The Hundred Years’ War.

Question 25

What was the first record or register of all land-holdings called?

The Domesday Book. 

Question 26

What king was put on trial, found guilty and executed?

Charles I.

Question 27

What is the 1605 conspiracy to blow up Parliament at the opening session called?

The Gunpowder Plot.

Question 28

Who made himself Head of State, as Lord Protector?

Oliver Cromwell.

Question 29

Where were Napoleon’s imperial dreams crushed by the

English under Wellington?

At Waterloo.

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Question 30

Who made himself the Head of the Church of England?

Henry VIII.

Question 31

How long did Queen Victoria reign?

Sixty-four years.

Question 32

Where was the battle fought in which the Normans won?

Near the town of Hastings.