SBK2

10. Which was the oldest colony of the British Empire?

Ireland

44. What was the term for English and Scottish Protestant settlers on confiscated land in Ireland?

Planters

96. Which were the three dominating European powers in the 17th and the 18th centuries, respectively?

Spain, France and Britain

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?

Class divisions; Exclusiveness/exclusivity

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?

"The four horsemen"

75. What is the name of the national anthem of Wales, and which is the traditional Welsh instrument?

(Old)Land of My Fathers; The Harp

63. Which years represent the three constitutional moments in the history of the UK?

1707, 1801, 1921

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?

1) The empire, 2) The Anglophone Atlantic world, 3) Europe

26. Name three practices that help make Britishness more inclusive, taught about in citizenship classes in the UK.

1) Anti-discrimination measures; 2) Legal exemptions for minority religious practices; 3) Using public services to promote racial equality

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.

1) Students facing stereotyping and low expectations from teachers; 2) Minority ethnic-sounding names reducing the likelihood of people being offered an interview; 3) Women wearing headscarves facing particular discrimination once entering the workplace

1. When did England begin to establish colonies and trade networks in the Americas and Asia?

15th and 16th centuries (Age of Discovery)

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

1600

2. In which year did Britain lose the Thirteen Colonies in North America?

1783

45. In which year did the Easter Rising in Ireland take place?

1916

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)?

1921; Nationalists/Republicans and Unionists/Loyalists

77. In which years did the two Welsh referendums on devolution take place?

1979 and 1997

49. In which year was 'The Good Friday Agreement' signed?

1998

64. Until which year was the British state constitutionally a 'unitary' one with a single legislature at Westminster?

1999

78. In which year were the first elections to the National Assembly for Wales held?

1999

22. When did the English national identity begin to emerge?

19th century

69. Which year marked the 300th anniversary of the British Union?

2007

In which year did the referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom take place?

2014

66. What percentage of the overall number of inhabitants in the UK did England's population represent by the 1990s?

85%

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.

Administrative and Legislative

95. Whose figure stands on the enormous column erected in 1842 in the centre of Trafalgar Square?

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

5. When did the British Empire achieve its largest territorial extent?

After WWI (1921)

23. What fraction of the world's land surface did the British Empire cover on the eve of the First World War and what percentage of the world's population did it incorporate?

Around 25% of world's land surface; around 23% (412 million) of world's population

41. According to the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in Britain, prejudice against which ethnic, racial, or religious group is the highest?

Asians (particularly Muslims and people designated as "politically black")

92. Name chronologically the two US presidents with whom British PM Tony Blair partially agreed, but also partially disagreed.

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

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?

Black Britishness

81. Which Britpop bands were known as the "big four"?

Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp

48. What issues has the term 'Irish question' been used to describe lately?

Brexit and UK-Irish border issues

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?

British Nationality Act

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?

British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act

37. Name three areas in the UK in which race riots took place in the 1970s

Brixton, the Midlands and Liverpool

19. What is the British state, as the classic example of the 'state-nation', identified by instead of ethnicity?

By state institutions such as the Parliament and the Monarchy

70. Which city is the youngest capital in Europe, and in which year did it become the capital city?

Cardiff, 1955

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?

Common Travel Area

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?

Congressional Friends of Ireland

4. Which countries challenged Britain's economic lead at the start of the 20th century?

Germany and the US

71. Who became, in 1916, the first and only Welsh Prime Minister of the UK?

David Lloyd George

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.

Devolved powers and Reserved powers

14. Who was the capital of New Zealand named after?

Duke of Wellington

12. Who was the most important advocate and theorist of 'systematic colonisation'?

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

17. Which constituent part of the UK is seen as its 'last stateless nation'?

England

83. Of which three constituent parts of the UK does the island of Great Britain consist?

England, Wales, Scotland

30. What are the English and the British flags called, respectively?

England: St. George's Cross; Britain: The Union Jack

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?

Gaelic; Gaelscoileanna

58. Which city was made the Cultural Capital of Europe in 1990?

Glasgow

91. Why did Winston Churchill believe Britain's future lay with the US rather than with Europe?

He believed that the axis of power turned on the Atlantic, and the US was an Atlantic power.

100. Which famous writer, a native American, was obsessed by "that quiet and comfortable sense of the absolute" enjoyed by the English?

Henry James

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

Henry Watson Fowler

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?

Herbert Henry Asquith

86. What is the title of H. V. Morton's 1942 book in which he contrasts pre-war England with wartime England?

I Saw Two Englands

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?

In Search of England

13. In which British colony was The Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840, and between whom?

In New Zealand, between the Crown and Maori (the English and the Maori)

34. Which country was known as "the jewel in the crown of the British Empire"?

India

36. Name three countries from which the greatest number of migrants came to the UK after 1947.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

39. Which term has been in use for Anti-Muslim hatred in the UK since 1997?

Islamophobia

21. What was the name of the famous national personification figure invented in England in 1712 for the purpose of distinctiveness?

John Bull

11. Who articulated British political identity as imperial in the late 19th century?

Joseph Chamberlain

43. Which British monarch ensured that the Irish Parliament declared him King of Ireland in 1541?

King Henry VIII

65. Over which three elements that made up the so-called 'Holy Trinity' did Scots have de facto autonomy for two centuries after 1707?

Law, Education, Religion

59. What are the names for language varieties spoken in Lowland Scotland and in the Highlands?

Lowland Scots; Scottish Gaelic

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?

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen; The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

90. Name the British PM and the US president, respectively, who had a particularly strong relationship during the 80s.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

50. Which was the most economically disadvantaged area in the United Kingdom in the 1970s?

Northern Ireland

6. How many British overseas territories and Commonwealth Realms are there, respectively?

Overseas territories: 14; Commonwealth Realms: 16 (as of 2017)

24. In which book was the English language, for the first time in its history, thoroughly nationalised and standardised, and who was its editor?

Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Editor: James Murray

31. Who is the author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack?

Paul Gilroy

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?

Pax Britannica

8. Who is the Head of the Commonwealth?

Queen Elizabeth II

35. Which British monarch issued a proclamation recognising Indians as British subjects and granting them equality of citizenship?

Queen Victoria

73. What are the names for the Welsh language radio station and the Welsh language television station launched in 1977 and in 1982 respectively?

Radio station: Radio Cymru; Television station: Sianel Pedwar Cymru

18. Who referred to the UK as "Yookay"?

Raymond Williams

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?

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

16. Which party was often associated with implicit pro-English-hegemony feelings?

The Conservative Party

87. Which two British PMs evoked rural England in their famous speeches in 1924 and 1993, respectively?

Stanley Baldwin (1924) and John Major (1993)

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?

Stephen Lawrence

27. Whose work at the BCCCS opened up new dialogues on Black cultural identity, effectively challenging the notion that British culture was quintessentially 'white'?

Stuart Hall

97. Which event opened the moment of Britain's supremacy in Europe, and in which year did it happen?

The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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?

The Black Bastards

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?

The Catholic middle class

7. What is the name of the world's oldest association of states, established by former British colonies after they gained independence?

The Commonwealth of Nations

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?

The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain

20. Which are the two British heraldic symbols in the title of George Orwell's famous essay published in 1941?

The Lion and the Unicorn

76. Which treaty afforded constitutional citizenship to the Welsh for the first time?

The Maastricht Treaty

60. Which is the strongest Scottish political party, and in which year was it formed?

The National Party of Scotland (1928) - in 1934, changed its name to the Scottish National Party

46. Name two main Protestant institutions which hold parades throughout Northern Ireland.

The Orange Institution; The Royal Black Institution

94. Name the two provisos with which John Major signed the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992.

The Social Chapter and the single currency

25. Which specific part of England was accorded literally utopian status in William Morris' News from Nowhere (1890)?

The Southern English countryside

74. Which national flag is believed to be the oldest one still in use, and which animal does it feature?

The Welsh flag; A Red Dragon

57. What are the two iconic symbols of Scottish culture, banned in 1746?

The kilt and the bagpipes

93. Who was the first foreign leader to visit US President Donald Trump at the White House, and in which year did that happen?

Theresa May, 2017

42. Who referred to the UK as "Cool Britannia"?

Tony Blair

72. Which is the only language in the UK that has equal status with English as an official language?

Welsh (Cymraeg)

38. Name three ways in which Muslim men and women in the UK are being held back in the workplace.

Widespread Islamophobia, racism and discrimination

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'?

Winston Churchill

89. Name the British PM and the US president, respectively, who had a particularly strong relationship during WWII.

Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

47. Which three flags are used in Northern Ireland?

the Ulster Banner/Red Hand Flag; the Tricolour; Saint Patrick's Saltire/Cross of St. Patrick