30 minutes - 20 questions, complete and precise answers:

6 = 11-12 correct answers

7 = 13-14
8 = 15-16
9 = 17-18
10 = 19-20

1. When did England begin to establish colonies and trade networks in the Americas and Asia?
2. In which year did Britain lose the Thirteen Colonies in North America?
3. What was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world (1815–1914), during which the
British Empire became the global hegemon and adopted the role of global policeman, called?
4. Which countries challenged Britain's economic lead at the start of the 20 th century?
5. When did the British Empire achieve its largest territorial extent?
6. How many British overseas territories and Commonwealth Realms are there, respectively?
7. What is the name of the world’s oldest association of states, established by former British colonies
after they gained independence?
8. Who is the Head of the Commonwealth?
9. What are the titles of two 19th-century English novels that reflect the racial fear engendered by the
1857 Indian mutiny, and who are their corresponding authors?
10. Which was the oldest colony of the British Empire?
11. Who articulated British political identity as imperial in the late 19th century?
12. Who was the most important advocate and theorist of ‘systematic colonisation’?
13. In which British colony was The Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1940, and between whom?
14. Who was the capital of New Zealand named after?

15. Who is the author of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage?

16. Which party was often associated with implicit pro-English-hegemony feelings?
17. Which constituent part of the UK is seen as its ‘last stateless nation’?
18. Who referred to the UK as “Yookay”?
19. What is the British state, as the classic example of the 'state-nation', identified by instead of
ethnicity?
20. Which are the two British heraldic symbols in the title of George Orwell’s famous essay published
in 1941?
21. What was the name of the famous national personification figure invented in England in 1712 for
the purpose of distinctiveness?
22. When did the English national identity begin to emerge?
23. What fraction of the world’s land surface did the British Empire cover on the eve of the Fist World
War and what percentage of the world’s population did it incorporate?
24. In which book was the English language, for the first time in its history, thoroughly nationalised and
standardised, and who was its editor?
25. Which specific part of England was accorded literally utopian status in William Morris’ News from
Nowhere (1890)?
26. Name three practices that help make Britishness more inclusive, taught about in citizenship classes
in the UK.
27. Whose work at the BCCCS opened up new dialogues on Black cultural identity, effectively
challenging the notion that British culture was quintessentially ‘white’?
28. What is the full title of the 1982 BCCCS book which brought a critical Black perspective to the
reading of a wide range of cultural texts, effectively extending the intellectual boundaries of a new
discursive terrain for a Black British culture?
29. What is the name of the black British teenager from south east London whose murder inquiry
represents a critical moment in the process of political and cultural change in Britain?
30. What are the English and the British flags called, respectively?
31. Who is the author of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack?
32. Which British cultural identity are films like Horace Ove’s Pressure, Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an
Illusion and Ngozi Onwuhra’s Welcome II the Terrordome cinematic representations of?

33. In which year was the East India Company established?

34. Which country was known as “the jewel in the crown of the British Empire”?
35. Which British monarch issued a proclamation recognising Indians as British subjects and granting
them equality of citizenship?
36. Name three countries from which the greatest number of migrants came to the UK after 1947.
37. Name three areas in the UK in which race riots took place in the 1970s.
38. Name three ways in which Muslim men and women in the UK are being held back in the workplace.
39. Which term has been in use for Anti-Muslim hatred in the UK since 1997?
40. Name three practices through which white people in the UK demonstrate that British Asians are not
accepted as British because of their race or cultural background.
41. According to the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in Britain, prejudice against which
ethnic, racial, or religious group is the highest?
42. Who referred to the UK as “Cool Britannia”?

43. Which British monarch ensured that the Irish Parliament declared him King of Ireland in 1541?
44. What was the term for English and Scottish Protestant settlers on confiscated land in Ireland?
45. In which year did the Easter Rising in Ireland take place?
46. Name two main Protestant institutions which hold parades throughout Northern Ireland.
47. Which three flags are used in Northern Ireland?
48. What issues has the term ’Irish question’ been used to describe lately?
49. In which year was ‘The Good Friday Agreement’ signed?
50. Which was the most economically disadvantaged area in the United Kingdom in the 1970s?
51. The growth of which new class was a significant outcome of the installation of a large military
garrison in Northern Ireland in the 1970s?
52. In which year did partition of Ireland take place, and which two unstable antagonistic political
blocks exist in Northern Ireland (supply both names for each of the blocks)?
53. What is the Irish language called and what is the name for schools in which teaching is in the Irish
language in Northern Ireland?
54. Which colloquialism is frequently used in the republican community in Northern Ireland as a
reference to the Protestant and unionist Institutions, and to characterize political unionism as a
whole?
55. What was the name of an influential group of people with whom John Hume, leader of the Social
Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in Northern Ireland, networked effectively in the mid-1970s?
56. What was the name of the organisation founded in 1981, which became a successful catalyst for
political pressure on London and a political guarantor of the US contribution to the International
Fund for Ireland?

57. What are the two iconic symbols of Scottish culture, banned in 1746?
58. Which city was made the Cultural Capital of Europe in 1990?
59. What are the names for language varieties spoken in Lowland Scotland and in the Highlands?
60. Which is the strongest Scottish political party, and in which year was it formed?
61. In which year did the referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom take place?
62. What is the name of the agreement which allows travellers from the Republic of Ireland to the UK
and vice versa to avoid passport checks?
63. Which years represent the three constitutional moments in the history of the UK?
64. Until which year was the British state constitutionally a ‘unitary’ one with a single legislature at
Westminster?
65. Over which three elements that made up the so-called ‘Holy Trinity’ did Scots have de facto
autonomy for two centuries after 1707?
66. What percentage of the overall number of inhabitants in the UK did England’s population represent
by the 1990s?
67. What was the name of the 1948 Act that granted the inhabitants of the UK the status of ‘citizens of
the UK and colonies’ instead of being formally ‘subjects’ of the Crown?
68. What was the name of the 1914 Act in which nationality did not refer to Britain as a geographical
entity but was rather perceived in terms of those who owed allegiance to the Crown?
69. Which year marked the 300th anniversary of the British Union?

70. Which city is the youngest capital in Europe, and in which year did it become the capital city?
71. Who became, in 1916, the first and only Welsh Prime Minister of the UK?
72. Which is the only language in the UK that has equal status with English as an official language?
73. What are the names for the Welsh language radio station and the Welsh language television station
launched in 1977 and in 1982 respectively?
74. Which national flag is believed to be the oldest one still in use, and which animal does it feature?
75. What is the name of the national anthem of Wales, and which is the traditional Welsh instrument?
76. Which treaty afforded constitutional citizenship to the Welsh for the first time?
77. In which years did the two Welsh referendums on devolution take place?
78. In which year were the first elections to the National Assembly for Wales held?

79. Name two kinds of devolution in the UK: the one through which political power is transferred from
the central to a subnational government, and the other one which recognises the centre of political
power, but allows for regional interests to also be represented.
80. Name two kinds of powers after legislative devolution in the UK: those which are transferred and
those which allow for decisions to be made only by the UK Parliament.
81. Which Britpop bands were known as the “big four”?
82. Whose gravestone is inscribed with the words “Prime Minister of England, 1908-1916”, even
though there has never been a Prime Minister of England, only a Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom?
83. Of which three constituent parts of the UK does the island of Great Britain consist?
84. In which three constituent parts of the UK did devolution at the end of the 20th century provide
political identities to their respective cultural distinctive characters?
85. What has Englishness been intrinsically linked to, instead of being a typical form of national
identity, and what has been central to its formation?
86. What is the title of H. V. Morton’s 1942 book in which he contrasts pre-war England with wartime
England?
87. Which two British PMs evoked rural England in their famous speeches in 1924 and 1993,
respectively?
88. What is the title of H. V. Morton’s 1927 book in which he purposely ‘skirts Black England’ in order
to see its ‘real north’ of ancient cities and countryside?

89. Name the British PM and the US president, respectively, who had a particularly strong relationship
during WWII.
90. Name the British PM and the US president, respectively, who had a particularly strong relationship
during the 80s.
91. Why did Winston Churchill believe Britain’s future lay with the US rather than with Europe?
92. Name chronologically the two US presidents with whom British PM Tony Blair partially agreed, but
also partially disagreed.
93. Who was the first foreign leader to visit US President Donald Trump at the White House, and in
which year did that happen?
94. Name the two provisos with which John Major signed the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992.
95. Whose figure stands on the enormous column erected in 1842 in the centre of Trafalgar Square?
96. Which were the three dominating European powers in the 17th and the 18th centuries, respectively?
97. Which event opened the moment of Britain’s supremacy in Europe, and in which year did it happen?
98. At the centre of which three defining concentric circles does Great Britain lie, according to Winston
Churchill’s speech at the Conservative Party conference in Llandudno in 1948?
99. Who advocated most strenuously the unification of France and Great Britain in 1940, so that they
‘shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union’?
100. Which famous writer, a native American, was obsessed by "that quiet and comfortable sense of the
absolute" enjoyed by the English?
101. Which book can be truly defined as a text 'of the break' in British cultural studies due to its
uncompromising critique of Americanized culture, fuelled by sympathy for the British folk culture,
and who is its author?
102. Which British General became famous because his troops seized Quebec City from the French in
1759?

103. Who is the author of Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour?
104. Name three books by Kate Fox.
105. According to Kate Fox, what is the central core of Englishness, as a shorthand term for all “chronic
social inhibitions and handicaps” of the English?
106. In Kate Fox’s “diagram of Englishness”, which cluster do humour, moderation, and hypocrisy
belong to?
107. In Kate Fox’s “diagram of Englishness”, which cluster does class-consciousness belong to?
108. Name three characteristics which belong to the cluster of ‘values’ in Kate Fox’s “diagram of
Englishness”.
109. Name three indicators on which class is judged according to Kate Fox.
110. According to Kate Fox, what is ‘the money-talk taboo’ a product of?