COUNTRY STUDIES QUIZ

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TASK 1. Tick the correct answer

1) William Sidney Porter (O'Henry) wrote his first short stories in jail. He had been imprisoned for

 fraud

 counterfeiting

 embezzlemen

 robbery

2) The name of Brigham Young is associated with

 Mormons

 Salt Lake City

 Barbarians

 the Pilgrims

3) People of Anglo-Saxon or Irish descent born in Australia
and speaking English as their native tongue are

 Torrens

 Aussies

 Okies

 Marsupials

4) One of the projects of English spelling reform (for example: through as thru)
was put forward by a famous American writer. That writer was

 William Saroyan

 Walt Whitman

 Mark Twain

 Jack London

5) The Chinook is the local wind in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It

 cools the air in summer and warms it in winter

 warms the air in summer and cools it in winter

 makes the snow melt later in spring

 makes the snow melt early in winter

6) Ayers Rock in Australia is

 an enormous sandstone monolith

 the world's largest collection of corals

 an opal

 a hand-made Aborigines' artifact

7) Who wrote “Death in the Air"?

 George Orwell

 John Le Carre

 Oscar Wilde

 Agatha Christie

8) Who wrote "The Faerie Queen"?

 W. Shakespeare

 S. Johnson

 J. Donne

 E. Spenser

9) What would you do with an OED?

 consult it

 eat it

 drink it

 watch it on TV

10) What would you do with an egg flip?

 drink it

 throw it out

 eat it

 cook it

11) What is a quid?

 a rash

 a dish

 a fish

 pound sterling

12) The strike by which group of workers brought down the Conservative Government
of Edward Heath in 1974?

 Farmers

 Dockers

 Miners

 Railwaymen

13) Which King of Wessex finally defeated the Vikings, saving his kingdom from invasion and
beginning the unification of Viking settlers and the English?

 Athelbert

 Athelstan

 Alfred the Great

 Athelwulf

14) Which King of England famously failed to hold back the incoming tide?

 Canute

 Athelstan

 Alfred the Great

 Harold

15) Which Parliamentarian General in the English Civil War
later became ruler of England?

 John Pym

 Lord Fairfax

 Oliver Cromwell

 John Hampden

16) At which Battle in 1356 did the English capture the French King John?

 Agincourt

 Waterloo

 Crecy

 Poitiers

17) With which sport have hooligans been most associated?

 Cricket

 Tiddleywinks

 Football

 Rugby

18) Which King of Mercia built a dyke to separate England from Wales?

 Oswald

 Osric

 Offa

 Colman

19)The deaths of which Scottish noblemen is said to be announced
by a phantom drummer visiting the family home?

 Thane of
  Cawdor

 Earls of Moray

 Earls of Airlie

 Dukes of Argyll

20) In cockney rhyming slang, what are you feeling if you are feeling "uncle"?

 Happy

 Hungry

 Sick

 Sad

21) In which year did Bonnie Prince Charlie land in Scotland to lead a rising
against the Hanoverian dynasty?

 1725

 1715

 1745

 1735

22) Whose drum is said to summon his spirit to repel invaders
"if the Dons sight Devon"?

 Admiral Nelson

 Sir Francis
 Drake

 The Duke of
  Wellington

 The Duke of
 Marlborough

23) If a village name ends in - thorpe it was probably founded by whom?

 Normans

 Celts

 Romans

 Vikings

24) Which real life Scottish outlaw was the subject of a book
by Sir Walter Scott in 1818?

 Charles
 Breek-Stewart

 Rob Roy

 Sawny Bean

 William Wallace

25) Who led the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil Wars, later becoming a pirate
and returning to respectable life when the monarchy was restored?

 Prince Reginald

 Prince Rudolf

 Prince Robert

 Prince Rupert

26) The marriage of which French noblewoman to England's King Henry II
brought over half of France under English rule?

 Isabel of Paris

 Mary of
 Bordeaux

 Eleanor of
 Aquitaine

 Helena of
 Champagne

27) Which Scottish king was killed by an exploding cannon
while besieging the English in Roxburgh Castle?

 James IV

 James I

 James III

 James II

28) In which year did William III defeat James II at the Battle of the Boyne?

 1693

 1692

 1690

 1691

29) Which Welsh prince first united Wales in about 855?

 Idris

 Rhodri Mawr

 David II

 Llewelyn
 the Great

30) Which semi-legendary British King defeated the first English invasion of Britain
at the Battle of Mount Badon?

 King Cuneglas

 Old King Cole

 King Arthur

 King Maelgwn

31) Which 18th century British king could speak no English?

 William III

 George II

 George I

 George III

32) Which two leaders are traditionally said to have led
the first English invasion of Britain?

 Hengest and
 Horsa

 Athelstan and
 Alfred

 Hasta and Hosta

 Edric and
 Ethehvold

33) Which Welsh Prince called the Great Council of Wales
to meet at Strata Florida in 1238?

 Hywel Dda

 Rhodri Mawr

 Owen Glyndwr

 Llywelyn
 the Great

34) Why are most English market towns about 15 miles apart?

 Because
 monasteries
 founded markets
 this distance apart
 on orders from the  Pope.

 Because seven
 miles was about as
 far as a man could
 walk to market and  back in a day.

 Because town
 guilds refused to
 hold markets closer
 together.

 Because King
 John issued a
 charter making  this a law.

35) The pudding traditionally eaten with roast beef has the same name
as which English county?

 Yorkshire

 Lancashire

 Sussex

 Devon

36) What are the main ingredients of the British dish known as "bubble-and-squeak"?

 porridge and
 syrup

 potato and
 cabbage

 minced beef and beans

 eggs and ham

37) Which British artist is famously noted for his paintings of horses?

 George Stubbs

 Holman Hunt

 Thomas
 Gainsborough

 William Hogarth