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Think You Know The United Kingdom?

June 4, 2012 by theriskyshift in Quiz with 2 Comments

Let’s find out… good luck!

 

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1) How many wives did King Henry VIII have?

5
6
7
8
2) What form of government does the UK employ?

Republic
Absolute Monarchy
Technocracy
Constitutional Monarcy
3) Which body of water does not border the UK?

Atlantic Ocean
North Sea
Bay of Biscay
Irish Sea
4) What is the UK’s third largest city (by population)?

Birmingham
Manchester
Glasgow
Liverpool
5) What is the full name of the current Prime Minister?

David Boris Johnson Cameron
David Hamilton Donald Cameron
David Hamilton Johnson Cameron
David William Donald Cameron
6) What happened “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”?

The Great War ended
The Second World War ended
Britain declared war on the Central Powers
Britain declared war on the Axis
7) Which Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire invented the internet?

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
Sir Wilfred Thesigner
Sir Vijay Singh
Sir Ong-siang Song
8) When did Queen Elizabeth II ascend to the throne?

1949
1950
1951
1952
9) Queen Elizabeth II belongs to which royal house?

Tudor
York
Hanover
Windsor
10) How many Prime Ministers has Queen Elizabeth II overseen?

10
11
12
13
11) Who is the current shadow Lord Chancellor?

Rt Hon Sadiq Khan
Rt Hon Harriet Harman
Rt Hon Tessa Jowell
Rt Hon Gordon Brown
12) Who once said “there shall never be a female Prime Minister in my time”?

Margaret Thatcher
Arthur Balfour
Benjamin Disraeli
Winston Churchill
13) How many overseas territories does the UK possess?

10
12
14
16
14) How many people died in the Great Fire of London?

6
106
506
1,006
15) With which other world power did the British Empire engage in the Great Game with?

United States of America
Russia
France
Spain
16) In the UK, when does a town become a city?

If the Queen declares it one
If it has a university
If it has a cathedral
If its population grows to over 10,000
17) The Charge of the Light Brigade, a British military action that led French Marshal Pierre Bosquet to comment “It is magnificent, but it is not war”, took place in which battle?

Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Battle of Baclava, 1854
Battle of Mons, 1914
18) When did the UK abolish slavery?

1688
1733
1788
1833
19) When did the Treaty of Union take effect?

1700
1707
1800
1807
20) Approximately how much does the National Health Service cost per annum?

£6 billion
£16 billion
£106 billion
£1,006 billion


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  1. avatar

    Tasbiah AkhtarJune 4, 2012 at 9:02 pmReply

    14 out of 20 and having gained a significant amount of Jubilee related trivia in the last two days! :)

  2. avatar

    Henry SeversJune 5, 2012 at 3:48 pmReply

    Qu 7) “Which Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire invented the internet?”

    This is not correct. Timothy Berners-Lee DID NOT create the internet, he developed W3 (world-wide web) which is, by his definition, “…the universe of network-accessible information, resources and users on the Internet… using Hypertext-Transfer-Protocol”. Please refer to his Q&A for a little more information on this: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html

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