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 HISTORY                                       

1. Where were Napoleon's imperial dreams crashed by the English under Wellington?
2. Who made himself the Head of the Church of England?
3. How long did Queen Victoria reign?
4. Where was the battle fought in which the Normans won?
5. What islands did the British recapture from Argentina in 1982?
6. When did the first men and women settle in Britain?
7. Where was William the Conqueror crowned?
8. What war lasted from 1337 to 1453?
9. When did the first Romans appear on the British Isles?
10. What city did the Romans built on the banks of the river  

Thames?

11. When did the Romans leave the Isles?
12. When did the Normans conquer Britain?
13. When did the Great Fire of London start?
14. What was the cause of the fire?
15. Who built the Tower of London?

 GEOGRAPHY

1. What is the name of the most narrow part between England and France?
2. Where is the UK situated?
3. How is the UK devided from France?
4. What seas and oceans is Great Britain washed by?
5. What is the highest mountain on the British Isles?
6. What is the climate in the UK?
7. Why is the climate very humid on the British  Isles?
8. What countries does the UK border on?

 EDUCATION

1. Which is the biggest museum in the UK?
2. Which is the oldest public school in Britain?
3. Where was the first university in England founded?
4. Where does Royal Shakespear Company perform?
5. Where does the Royal Opera House give performances?
6. What theatre did Shakespear write most of his plays for?
7. Where did Shakespear perform as an actor?
8. Where was the second university of England formed?
9. What was Benjamin Britten?
10. What is the name of the famous 60-s band?

LITERATURE

1. Who is the most popular hero of the English ballads?
2. What is the first of Shakespear's great tragedies?
3. Who is called by the British people 'Our National Bard'?
4. Who is the main hero of Rudyard Kippling's 'The Jungle Book'?
5. Who is considered the national poet of Scotland?
6. Who is the author of 'Hamlet'?
7. What are the principal characters of Bernard Shaw's play 'Pygmalion'?
8. Who is the first English humanist of the Renaissance?
9. Who is the father of English poetry?
10.  What is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray?

  POLITICS

1. What is the official name of the country?
2. Who does the power in the country belong to?
3. Who is the Head of the Parliament in the UK?
4. Who is the Head of the government in the UK

  FAMOUS PEOPLE

1. What famous English architect built St.Paul's Cathedral?
2. Who is the author of the gravitation theory?
3. Who discovered Australia?
4. Who was the first woman prime minister of Great Britain?
5. With whose name is the revolution in natural science associated?
6. Who defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?
7. Who discovered penicillin?
8.  Who discovered electromagnetic induction?
9. What English poet was a philosopher and a painter?
10. Whose monument is there in the centre of Trafalgar Square?

     HISTORY

1. at Waterloo
2. Henry V111
3. sixty-four years
4. near the town of Hastings
5. the Falkland Islands
6. 250.000 BC
7. the Westminster Abby
8. the hundred years' War
9. in the first century AD
10. Londinium
11. in the fifth century
12. in 1066
13. in a house of a king's baker
14. a strong wind
15. the Normans

     GEOGRAPHY

1. the Strait of Dover
2. on the British Isles
3. by the English Channal
4. the North Sea in the East, the Atlantic Ocean in the West
5. No, it hasn't
6. No, it doesn't
7. the Ben Nevis, the Snowdon
8. mild
9. It is washed by the seas and oceans
10. Ireland, France

     EDUCATION

1. the British Museum
2. Eton
3. at the town of Oxford
4. at Stratford-on-Avon
5. at Covent Garden
6. the Globe Theatre
7. the Globe Theatre
8. at Cambridge
9. a composer
10. the Beatles

     LITERATURE

1. Robin Hood
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. William Shakespeare
4. Mowgli
5. Robert Burns
6. William Shakespeare
7. Eliza Doolitle and Henry Higgins
8. Thomas More
9. Geoffrey Chauser
10. Vanity Fair

     POLITICS

1. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. to the government and Prime-Minister
3. the Queen
4. Prime-Minister

         FAMOUS PEOPLE

1. Christopher Wren
2. Isaak Newton
3. Captain James Cook
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. that is the name of Charles Darwin
6. Admiral Nelson
7. Sir Alexander Fleming
8. Michael Faraday
9. William Blake
10. Admiral Nelson

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