Practice Test 9

Question 1

Mary Stuart

Answer 1

Mary Queen of Scots, catholic

Question 2

How often does Prime Ministers questions occur while Parliament is sitting?

Answer 2

Every week

Question 3

Recent actors who won Oscars

Answer 3

Colin Firth, Judy Dench, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swindon, Antony Hopkins

Question 4

Lord Protector in 17th century

Answer 4

Oliver Cromwell

Question 5

D-day

Answer 5

Allied forces land in Normandy, eventually onto victory in Germany

Question 6

Proceedings in parliament

Answer 6

Are broadcast on television

Question 7

Two foods associated with England

Answer 7

Roast beef, and fish and chips

Question 8

Elizabeth II jubilee in 2012

Answer 8

Diamond jubilee, 60 years

Question 9

Where did Rugby come from?

Answer 9

Originated in England in early 19th century

Question 10

Which leader fought against romans?

Answer 10

Queen Boudicca, Queen of Iceni. Statue of her near Westminster bridge.

Question 11

Queen Anne’s successor

Answer 11

No surviving children so Parliament chose German George I as her nearest Protestant relative

Question 12

Yearly race between Oxford and Cambridge

Answer 12

Rowing on Thames

Question 13

School governors

Answer 13

People from the local community who want to contribute to education

Question 14

Richard Arkwright

Answer 14

Ran efficient and profitable factories

Question 15

Robert Burns

Answer 15

Scotland poet, auld Lang syne

Question 16

Hereditary peers

Answer 16

Have no automatic right to attend House of Lords, they elect a few to represent them

Question 17

Sake Dean Mahomet

Answer 17

Opened first curry house in 1810