Practice

Question 1

1969

Answer 1

men and women age 18 voting rights

Question 2

Daffodil

Answer 2

Welsh national flower

Question 3

David

Answer 3

Wales patron saint

Question 4

1 February

Answer 4

St David day (Wales)

Question 5

30 ~November

Answer 5

St Andrew Day (Scotland)

Question 6

23 April

Answer 6

St George’s Day (England)

Question 7

Ulster Fry

Answer 7

Northern Ireland national food - full English

Question 8

Crown dependencies - 2

Answer 8

Isle of Man and Channel Islands

Question 9

Territories - 2

Answer 9

St Helena and Falklands

Question 10

Skara Brae

Answer 10

Neolithic monument on Orkney

Question 11

6,000 years ago

Answer 11

first farmers came to Britain from south east Europe

Question 12

Bronze age burials

Answer 12

round barrows

Question 13

language of the stone age?

Answer 13

Celtic

Question 14

First coins - when?

Answer 14

Iron age

Question 15

Boudicca

Answer 15

rebellion against Romans

Question 16

Claudius in 43 AD

Answer 16

successful invasion Britain

Question 17

Forts: Vindolanda and Housesteads

Answer 17

Roman forts - 2

Question 18

410AD

Answer 18

Romans left after 400 yrs

Question 19

Hadrian’s Wall

Answer 19

to keep out Picts

Question 20

Hadrian’s Wall

Answer 20

to keep out Picts

Question 21

600 AD

Answer 21

Anglo Saxon settlements after they invaded

Question 22

Christian missionaries - 3 - during Anglo Saxon period

PAC

Answer 22

St Patrick
St Colombo
St Augustine
(PAC)

Question 23

Archbishop of Canterbury - 1st

Answer 23

St Augustine

Question 24

789 AD

Answer 24

Viking invasions from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Question 25

(King) Kenneth MacAlpin

Answer 25

united people agaisnt Viking invasions, used term "Scotland"

Question 26

King Alfred the Great

Answer 26

united people against Vikings and defeated them

Question 27

1066 AD

Answer 27

Battle of Hastings | last foreign invasion

Question 28

William the Conqueror, Norman conquest

Answer 28

defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066

Question 29

Bayeux Tapestry

Answer 29

in France, depicts the Harold-William battle at Hastings

Question 30

Domesday Book

Answer 30

registry of land and assets per person in Normal times

Question 31

Duke of Normandy

Answer 31

William the Conqueror. alt name?

Question 32

Middle Ages

Answer 32

characterised by wars home and abroad | include Crusades and 100 Years War

Question 33

Robert the Bruce | Battle of Bannockburn

Answer 33

Middle Ages - 1314 | Scotland defeated England

Question 34

Statute of Rhuddlan | 1284

Answer 34

Start of Wales in the Middle Ages

Question 35

The Pale | 1200

Answer 35

English rule the Pale near Dublin | MIddle AGes

Question 36

King Henry V

Answer 36

(Who) Defeated French in battle in 100 years war | Battle of Agincourt

Question 37

1348

Answer 37

Black Death

Question 38

1215

Answer 38

Magna Carta

Question 39

William Caxton

Answer 39

Printed the Canterbury Tales

Question 40

The Bruce | BBB

Answer 40

Poetry about the Battle of Bannockburn by John Barbour | BBB

Question 41

1400

Answer 41

English spoken and written in court and parliament