Quiz “All about England”
I round: “What do you know about Great Britain? ”
Choose the correct answer from the variants listed below.
1. What is the official name of the country whose language you study? a) Great Britain b) England c) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Correct answer — the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. How many countries does the United Kingdom consists of? a) two b) three c) four
Correct answer — four
3. Which is the largest island of the British Isles? a) Ireland b) Isle of Man c) Great Britain
Correct answer — Great Britain
4. What is the capital of Scotland? a) Manchester b)Edinburgh c)Glasgow
Correct answer — Edinburgh
5. What is the capital of Wales? a) Aberdeen b)Cardiff c)Liverpool
Correct answer — Cardiff
6. What is the capital of Northern Ireland? a) York b) Dublin c) Belfast
Correct answer — Belfast
7. What is the state system of the United Kingdom? a) a constitutional monarchy b) a parliamentary republic c) a limited monarchy
Correct answer — a constitutional monarchy
8. What is the symbol of the United Kingdom? a) a bald eagle b) Britannia c) a rose
Correct answer — Britannia
9. What is the name of the British national flag? a) the Union Jack b) the Saint Andrew’s Cross c) the Saint David’s Cross
Correct answer — the Union Jack
10. Which is the longest river in Britain? a) the Clyde b) the Severn c) the Thames
Correct answer — the Severn
11. What is the emblem of England? a) a shamrock b) a red rose c) a leek
Correct answer — a red rose
12. What is the emblem of Scotland? a) a daffodil b) a dragon c) a thistle
Correct answer — a thistle
13. What are the emblems of Wales? a) a shamrock, a clover and a red hand b) a rose and the Saint George’s Cross c) a dragon, a daffodil, a leek, a dove
Correct answer — a dragon, a daffodil, a leek, a dove
14. What is the emblem of Northern Ireland? a) a shamrock b) a white rose c) a lion
Correct answer — a shamrock
15. What chambers does the British Parliament consist of? a) the Senate and the House of Representatives b)the House of Lords and the House of Commons c) the Cabinet of Ministers and the Shadow Cabinet
Correct answer — the House of Lords and the House of Commons
16. Who presides in the House of Lords? a) the Lord Chancellor b) the Speaker c) the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Correct answer — the Lord Chancellor
17. Where does the British Prime Minister live and work? a) at 10 Downing Street b) in the Houses of Parliament c) in Buckingham Palace
Correct answer — at 10 Downing Street
18. What is the name of the poet who was called “The Father of English Poetry”? a) W. Shakespeare b) George G. Byron c) Geoffrey Chaucer
Correct answer — Geoffrey Chaucer
19. Who is the official head of the UK? a) the President b)the Houses of Parliament c) the Queen
Correct answer — the Queen
20. What is London residence of the Queen? a) the Tower of London b) Windsor Castle c) Buckingham Palace
Correct answer — Buckingham Palace
21. Where is Nelson’s Column situated? a) in Parliament Square b) in Trafalgar Square c ) in Piccadilly Circus
Correct answer — in Trafalgar Square
22. Where are British kings crowned? a) in St. Paul’s Cathedral b) in Westminster Abbey c) in Canterbury Cathedral
Correct answer — in Westminster Abbey
23. Who was the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London? a) Sir Christopher Wren b) Edward Bailey c) Henry Tate
Correct answer — Sir Christopher Wren
24. The ravens are a famous sight of … a) the Tower of London b) London zoo c) Covent Garden
Correct answer — the Tower of London
25. Scottish surnames begin with … a) O’ b) Mac or Mc c) de
Correct answer — Mac or Mc
26. What is the Scottish national costume for men? a) the tuxedo b) the bearskin c) the kilt
Correct answer — the kilt
27. What lake does the famous Scottish monster live in? a) Loch Morar b) Loch Lomond c) Loch Ness
Correct answer — Loch Ness
28. What is the most famous sport event in Scotland? a) the Highland Games b) Commonwealth Games c) the Wimbledon Championship
Correct answer — the Highland Games
29. What country is called a land of castles and princes? a) England b) Northern Ireland c) Wales
Correct answer — Wales
30. What universities have the highest academic reputation in the UK? a) Oxbridge b) London University and Bristol University c) Red-brick universities
Correct answer — Oxbridge (Oxford University and Cambridge University)
31. What is the school-leaving age in the United Kingdom? a) 16 b) 13 c) 18
Correct answer — 16
32. Which of the following stages of British education is not obligatory? a) nursery school b) primary school c) secondary school
Correct answer — nursery school
33. What is the top secondary school in Great Britain? a) Chiswick Community School b) Eton c) Harrow
Correct answer — Eton
34. What is the Englishmen’s favourite drink? a) orange juice b)coffee c) tea
Correct answer — tea
35. The political centre of London is … a) Tower of London b) Westminster c) Piccadilly Circus
Correct answer — Westminster
36. The colour of taxis in London is … a) black b) red c) yellow
Correct answer — black
II round “The most famous sights in London”
Name the place which description you’ll read here.
1. The Tower with a huge bell, from which people in Britain take time.
Correct answer — Big Ben and Clock Tower
2. The most democratic park.
Correct answer — Hyde Park
3. The meeting’s point of six streets.
Correct answer — Piccadilly Circus
4. The ancient church, where a lot of kings were crowned and buried.
Correct answer — Westminster Abbey
5. The finest bridge in London, which cross the Thames.
Correct answer — Tower Bridge
6. The most imposing building, in which the British Parliament sits.
Correct answer — Westminster Palace
7. The oldest part of London with its own Lord Mayor.
Correct answer — the City
8. The fashionable district of expensive restaurants, media offices and theatres
Correct answer — Soho
9. One of the largest observation wheels in the world
Correct answer — the London Eye
III round “The secretive (magic) numerals”
Write correctly the numerals from sentences you’ll read here.
1. How many parts is London divided into?
Correct answer — 4
2. How many ravens are always at least at the Tower of London?
Correct answer — 6
3. How old is London?
Correct answer — about 2000 years
4. What is the population of London?
Correct answer — 15 million
5. How many chambers does the British Parliament consist of?
Correct answer — 2
6. When was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Correct answer — in 1805
7. When can you watch the Changing the Guard?
Correct answer — at 11. 30
8. When was the Battle of Hastings?
Correct answer — in 1066
9. One pound equals …pence.
Correct answer — 100
10. What is the population of the United Kingdom?
Correct answer — 64 million
11. When did the Great Fire of London take place?
Correct answer — in 1666
12. How many times was Henry VIII married?
Correct answer — 6
IV round «Famous Englishmen»
Guess the Englishmen who have worldwide fame.
1. She was born in 1891. She was a worldwide writer. She wrote 75 detective stories. Her main character was an old woman named Miss Maple. She died in 1976.
Correct answer — Agatha Christy
2. He is a creator of the English historical novel. He was born in 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He published his finest novels “Ivanhoe”, “Rob Roy” and others. He died in 1832. There is his memorial in the Poet’s corner in Westminster Abbey.
Correct answer — Walter Scott
3. He was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, where he received a classical education. He was one of the world’s greatest writers. When he was twenty-one he went to London. There he became an actor and began to write plays. He wrote many beautiful sonnets and plays for the famous Globe Theatre. Later he was one of the owners of the Globe Theatre. His most famous play is “Romeo and Juliet”. He died in 1616.
Correct answer — William Shakespeare
4. This man is one of the greatest scientists in the world. He was born in 1809. He applied theory of evolution to the human race. He died in 1882 and buried in Westminster Abbey.
Correct answer — Charles Darwin
5. He was born in 1859. He did much for the English detective literature. But he was an outstanding writer, because he wrote some scientific stories. His famous hero was Sherlock Holmes.
Correct answer — Arthur Conan Doyle
6. He was an English novelist, a short-story writer and a poet. He was born in Bombay, India, in 1865 where his father worked at that time. When he was six years old, his parents sent the boy to England. At twenty-one he published his first book of poems. A year later he wrote a book of short stories about India. He is best known for his works for children, especially “The Jungle Book”. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.
Correct answer — Rudyard Kipling
7. She was a very nice woman. And she was a real English princess, too. That was the woman whom everybody loved. She had two sons and her husband was the Prince Charles. Her death was passed by strange events.
Correct answer — Princess Diana
8. He was one of the most important scientists who ever lived. He was born on 25 December, 1642, in Woolsthorpe. He spent most of his life in Cambridge. He became a world-famous physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher. He formulated laws of universal gravitation and motion that explain how objects move on the Earth and in the sky. He made discoveries in optics and built the first reflecting telescope. He invented an area of mathematics called calculus and wrote a lot of books.
Correct answer — Isaac Newton
9. He was born in London, England; on 16 April 1889. He didn’t have a very happy childhood. His brother and he were in the workhouse. He started his career as an actor when he was nine. When he was 21, he joined a traveling music-hall company. Soon after he went to America and became the famous comic film star. People remember him as a funny little man in baggy trousers and a small bowler hat.
Correct answer — Charlie Chaplin
10. He was born on the 30 th of November, 1874 in Britain, in a rich and famous family. In 1895 he graduated from Sandhurst Military Academy and in five years time, in 1900, became a Member of Parliament. He was the Prime Minister during the Second World War.
Correct answer — Winston Churchill
11. He was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. He also defeated the Spanish Armada.
Correct answer — Francis Drake
12. English soldier and statesman who helped make England a republic and then ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658.
Correct answer — Oliver Cromwell
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