Life in the UK 2020

Question 1

Ralph Vaughan Williams was a:

Accepted Answer

Folk music composer

Question 2

Who co-invented the MRI?

Accepted Answer

Sir Peter Mansfield

Question 3

Who is a British fashion designer?

Accepted Answer

Mary Quant

Question 4

Which two changes were introduced by the Education Act of 1944

Accepted Answer

Free Secondary education & a clear division between Primary and Secondary

Question 5

Where did the ancestors of the first farmers come from?

Accepted Answer

South-East Europe

Question 6

Which two are famous Paralympians

Accepted Answer

Ellie Simmonds & Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

Question 7

Who appoints life peers in the House of Lords?

Accepted Answer

Monarch

Question 8

William Blake, Lord Byron and Robert Browning were:

Accepted Answer

19th century poets

Question 9

What are Beowulf, The Tyger and She Walks in Beauty?

Accepted Answer

Poems

Question 10

How many member states does the Commonwealth have?

Accepted Answer

53

Question 11

Which group of refugees settled in England before 1720?

Accepted Answer

Huguenots

Question 12

What colour is the Tudor rose?

Accepted Answer

Red & white

Question 13

Which clan was killed because of not taking an oath?

Accepted Answer

The MacDonalds of Glencoe

Question 14

Which point about slavery is correct

Accepted Answer

Quakers set up the first-slavery groups

Question 15

In Scotland which court deals with minor criminal cases?

Accepted Answer

Justice of the Peace Court

Question 16

Which battle ended the War of the Roses?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Bosworth Field

Question 17

In Scotland, Sheriff Courts deal with:

Accepted Answer

Serious offences

Question 18

The Speaker of the House of Commons:

Accepted Answer

Remains an MP after election as Speaker

Question 19

What did the Statute of Rhuddlan do?

Accepted Answer

Annexed Wales to England

Question 20

Dylan Thomas was a famous writer and poet from which country?

Accepted Answer

Wales

Question 21

Which two were introduced before the First World War?

Accepted Answer

State retirement pension and Free school meals

Question 22

Who wrote the 'Canterbury tales'?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 23

When did the 'Battle of Agincourt' take place?

Accepted Answer

1415

Question 24

All Acts of Parliment are made in the:

Accepted Answer

Monarch's name

Question 25

What did the Chartists campaign for?

Accepted Answer

The right to vote for the working class

Question 26

Which of the following areas does civil law cover?

Accepted Answer

Debt

Question 27

What did Sir Christhoper Crockell invented?

Accepted Answer

Hovercraft

Question 28

When were films first shown in the UK?

Accepted Answer

1896

Question 29

Why is Sir Edwin Lutyens famous?

Accepted Answer

He was a 20th-century architect

Question 30

John Constable:

Accepted Answer

Was a famous British landscape painter

Question 31

When did the Habeas Corpus Act become law?

Accepted Answer

1679

Question 32

How many people serve jury in Scotland?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 33

Which two people are famose UK sports stars?

Accepted Answer

Sir Chris Hoy & Dame Kelly Holmes

Question 34

How long did England remain a republic?

Accepted Answer

11 years

Question 35

Who was Henry Purcell?

Accepted Answer

A musician

Question 36

Which of these gardens is located in Wales?

Accepted Answer

Bodnant Garden

Question 37

What was the population of the UK in 1901?

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40 million

Question 38

Who was the first Danish King?

Accepted Answer

Canute

Question 39

In a Crown Court, who decides the sentence when someone is found guilty?

Accepted Answer

The Judge

Question 40

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and Gertrude Jekyll were famous:

Accepted Answer

Garden Designers

Question 41

Which one is correct? Magistrates:

Accepted Answer

Usually work unpaid and do not need legal qualifications

Question 42

Catherine Howard was the sixth wife of Henry VIII

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

Forced marriage became illegal in the UK in:

Accepted Answer

2014

Question 44

What did Thomas Hardy write:

Accepted Answer

Far from the Madding Crowd

Question 45

How many American colonies declared their independence in 1776?

Accepted Answer

13

Question 46

Who designed the Cenotaph

Accepted Answer

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Question 47

How many members does The Northern Ireland Assembly have?

Accepted Answer

108

Question 48

When did the English Civil war begin?

Accepted Answer

1642

Question 49

Richard Arkwright developed:

Accepted Answer

Efficient and profitable factories

Question 50

Why was the role of Prime Minister created?

Accepted Answer

The Monarch did not speak English

Question 51

The Civil War between Charles I and Parlament in the mid-17th century led to Oliver Cromwell becoming king of England

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

When did English become the official language for documents?

Accepted Answer

1400

Question 53

Which two people are famous UK sports stars?

Accepted Answer

Sir Chris Hoy & Dame Kelly Holmes

Question 54

What happens when members of Parlament hold surgeries?

Accepted Answer

Members of the public can meet their MP

Question 55

When did the first Cristians arrive in the UK?

Accepted Answer

3rd & 4th century

Question 56

What important change to the voting rights took place in 1969?

Accepted Answer

The voting age was reduced to 18 for men and woman

Question 57

What do Sir William Golding, Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter have in common?

Accepted Answer

They have all been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Question 58

What is the Church of England known as in Scotland and the US?

Accepted Answer

The Episcopal Church

Question 59

How many Houses did the Scottish parliament have in the middle ages?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 60

Who mapped the coast of Australia?

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 61

Where was Florence Nightingale born?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 62

When did the Glorious Revolution happen?

Accepted Answer

1688

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