A long and illustrious history

Question 1

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? During the Victorian period the British empire became the biggest empire the world has ever seen.

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 1

(A) TRUE

Question 2

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? Wales united with England during the reign of Henry VIII.

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 2

(A) TRUE

Question 3

Which TWO are plays by William Shakespeare?
(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Oliver Twist
(B) Romeo and Juliet and Oliver Twist
(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet
(D) Pride and Prejudice, and Romeo and Juliet

Answer 3

(C) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet

Question 4

Which collection of poems was written by Geoffrey Chaucer?

(A) The Westbury Tales
(B) TBC
(C) The London Tales
(D) TBC

Answer 4

To Be Confirmed

Question 5

Which were the TWO important aspects of the Reform Act of 1832?

(A) It abolished rotten boroughs and gave women the vote.
(B) It decreased the power of the monarch
(C) It greatly increased the number of people who could vote and abolished rotten boroughs.
(D) (B) It decreased the power of the monarch

Answer 5

(C) It greatly increased the number of people who could vote and abolished rotten boroughs.

Question 6

Which TWO points on slavery are correct.

(A) William Wilberforce was a leading abolitionist and the Royal Navy refused to stop ships carrying slaves.
(B) Quakers set up the first anti-slavery groups and the Royal Navy refused to stop ships carrying slaves.
(C) Slavery survived in British Empire until 20th century and the Royal Navy refused to stop ships carrying salves.
(D) William Wilberforce was a leading abolitionist and Quakers set up the first anti-slavery groups.

Answer 6

(D) William Wilberforce was a leading abolitionist and Quakers set up the first anti-slavery groups.

Question 7

Which TWO of the following were introduced in the early 20th century?

(A) Child Benefit payments and free school meals.
(B) The National Health Service and child benefit payment.
(C) The National Health Service (NHS) and old age pension.
(D) Old age pension and free school meals.

Answer 7

(D) Old age pension and free school meals.

Question 8

Which TWO were 20th-century British discoveries or inventors?

(A) Radium and the printing press
(B) The hovercraft and radium
(C) Penicillin and the printing press
(D) The hovercraft and penicillin

Answer 8

(D) The hovercraft and penicillin

Question 9

Which TWO of the following were English Civil War battles?

(A) Marston Moor and Hastings
(B) Waterloo and Marston Moor
(C) Hastings and Naseby
(D) Marston Moor and Naseby

Answer 9

(D) Marston Moor and Naseby

Question 10

Which TWO fought in wars against Napoleon ?

(A) Winston Churchill and Duke of Wellington
(B) Margaret Thatcher and the Duke of Wellington
(C) Margaret Thatcher and Admiral Nelson
(D) Admiral Nelson and the Duke of Wellington

Answer 10

(D) Admiral Nelson and the Duke of Wellington

Question 11

Which term “D-Day” refers to which event in British History?

(A) The Battle of Trafalgar
(B) Landing of allied troops in Normandy
(C) Dropping of the atom bomb on Japan
(D) End of the war in Europe in 1945

Answer 11

(B) Landing of allied troops in Normandy

Question 12

Which of the following statements is correct?

(A) Hadrian’s Wall was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
(B) Hadrian’s Wall was built by the Picts (ancestors of the Scottish people) to keep out the Romans

Answer 12

(A) Hadrian’s Wall was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian

Question 13

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE ? Sir Isaac Newton was a famous musician from the 18th century

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 13

(B) FALSE

Question 14

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? In 1805, at the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeated the German fleet.

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 14

(B) FALSE

Question 15

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? In 1833 the Emancipation Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 15

(A) TRUE

Question 16

What was the name given to supporters of King Charles I during the Civil War?

(A) Luddites
(B) Roundheads
(C) Cavaliers
(D) Leveilers

Answer 16

(C) Cavaliers

Question 17

Which cross on the Union Flag represents the patron saint of England?
(A) The diagonal white cross
(B) The diagonal red cross
(C) The upright red cross
(D) None of these

Answer 17

(C) The upright red cross

Question 18

Which TWO were 20th-century British discoveries or inventors?

(A) Mobile phones and walkmans
(B) Cashpoints (ATMs) and walkmans
(C) Cloning a mammal and cashpoints (ATMs)
(D) Cloning a mammal and mobile phones

Answer 18

(D) Cloning a mammal and mobile phones

Question 19

Dunkirk is associated with which TWO events?

(A) The fall of Singapore and small boats coming to the rescue
(B) The D-Day landings and the fall of Singapore
(C) The rescue of 300,000 men and small boats coming the rescue
(D) The fall of Singapore and the rescue of 300.000 men

Answer 19

(C) The rescue of 300,000 men and small boats coming the rescue

Question 20

Which TWO of these figures were great Scottish thinkers of the Enlightenment?
(A) Robert Louis Stevenson and David Hume
(B) Adam Smith and David Hume
(C) Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson
(D) Robert Burns and David Hume

Answer 20

To Be Confirmed

Question 21

Which TWO of the following wars were English Kings involved in during he Middle Ages?

(A) The Crusades and the First World War
(B) The Crimean War and The Crusades
(C) The Crimean War and the Hundred Years War
(D) The Crusades and the Hundred Years War

Answer 21

(D) The Crusades and the Hundred Years War

Question 22

Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? The “Swinging Sixties” is a reference to the 1860s

(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE

Answer 22

(A) TRUE