SBK2

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

Which was the oldest colony of the British Empire?

Ireland

What was the term for English and Scottish Protestant settlers on confiscated land of Ireland?

Planters

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

Whish colloquialism is frequently used in the republican community in northern ireland as a reference to the protestant and unionist instituitons and to characterize political unionism as one?

the Black Bastards

Name tree ways in which Muslim men and women in the uk are being held back in the workplaces

widespread islamophobia, racism and discrimination

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

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

1707, 1801 and 1921

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

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

15th and 16th centuries (the Age of Discovery)

In which year was the East India Company established?

1600

In which year did Britain lose the 13 colonies in North America?

1783

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

17th century: Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands; 18th century: Spain, France and Britain

In which year did the Easter Rising in Ireland take place

1916

In which year did partition of ireland take place and which two unstable antagonistic political blocks exist in northern ireland?

1921, Nationalists/Republicans and Unionists/Loyalists

In which years did the two Welsh referendums on devotion take place?

1979 and 1997

In which year was the good friday agreement signed

1998

In which year were the first elections to the national assembly for wales held

1999

Until which year was the british state constitutionally a 'unitary' one with a single legislature at Westmisnter?

1999

When did the English national identity begin to emerge?

19th century

What fraction of the worlds land surface did the British Empire cover in the eve of the WWI and what percentage of the world's population did it incorporate?

20% of the world's land surface and 25% of the world's population

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

2007

In which year did the referendum on scottish independence from the UK take place

2014

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

85%

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 devolution

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

Admiral Horatio Nelson

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

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

Because the US secured arms, money and ultimately troops for the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

Which British cultural identity are the films like Horace Ove's Pressure, Menelik Shabazz's Burning an Illusion and Ngozi Onwhura's Welcome II the Terrodome cinematic representations of?

Black Britishness

Which Britpop bands were known as the big 4

Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp

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

Brexit and UK-Irish border issues

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

Brixton, the Midlands and Liverpool

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

By three state institutions: the Parliament, the Crown and the Church

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

Cardiff, 1955

What was the name of the organisation founded in 1981, which became a successful catalyst for political pressure on London and a politican guarantor of the US contribution to the International Fund for Ireland

Congressional Friends of Ireland

Who became the first and only welsh prime minister of the uk in 1916

David Lloyd George

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

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

Germany and the US

Who was the capital of New Zeland named afer?

Duke of Wellington

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

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

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

England

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

England, Wales, Scotland

What are the English and the British flags called?

England: St George's Cross, Britain: The Union Jack

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; Gael Scoileanna

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

Glasgow

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

Henry James

Who is the author of A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage?

Henry Watson Fowler

On whose gravestone does it state "Prime Minister of England, 1908-1916", even though there had never been a Prime Minister of England, only a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

Herbert Henry Asquith

In whish British colony was the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840, and between whom?

In New Zealand, between the Crown and Maori

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

Which country was known as 'the jewel in the crown of the British Empire' ?

India

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

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

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

Islamophobia

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

John Bull

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

Joseph Chamberlain

Which British monarch ensured that the Irish parliament declared him king of Ireland in 1541?

King Henry VIII

What is the name of the national anthem of Wales and what is the traditional Welsh instrument?

Land of My Fathers; the harp

Over which 3 elements that made up the so-called Holy Trinity did Scotts have de facto autonomy for 2 centuries after 1707

Law, Education, Religion

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

Lowlands Scots, Scottish Gaelic

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 - Jane Austen; The mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens

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

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

Which was the most economically disadvantaged area in the UK in 1970s

Northern Ireland

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, James Murray

Who is the author of ''There ain't no black in the union jack''?

Paul Gilroy

What was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world during which the British Empire became the global hegemon and adopted the role of global policeman

Pax Britannica

Who is the Head of the Commonwealth?

Queen Elizabeth II

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

Queen Victoria

What are the names for the Welsh language radio station and the welsh language television station launched in 1977 and 1982

Radio station: BBC Radio Cymru; Television station: Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C)

Who referred to the UK as 'Yookay'?

Raymond Williams

In which three constituent parts of the UK did the evolution at the end of the 20th century provide political identities to their respective cultural distinctive characters?

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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

Stanley Baldwin (1924) and John Major (1993)

What is the name of the black British teenager whose murder inquiry represents a critical moment in the process of political and cultural change in Britain?

Stephen Lawrence

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

Which party was often associated with implicit pro-english hagemony feelings?

The Conservative Party

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

The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

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?

The British Nationality Act

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?

The British Nationality and Status of Aliens act

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

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?

The Common Travel Area

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

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

What was the name of an influential group of people with whom John Hume, leader of the SDLP in Northern ireland, networked effectively in the mid-1970s?

The Four Horsemen

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

The Lion and the Unicorn

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

The Maastricht Treaty

Name two main protestant institutions which hold parades throughout Northern Ireland

The Orange institution, the Royal Black institution

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

The Scottish National party, 1934

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

The Social Chapter and the single currency

Which specific part of England was accorded literally utopian status in William Morris' News from Nowhere?

The Southern English countryside

Which national flag is believed to be the oldest one still in use and what animal does it feature

The Welsh flag, the Red Dragon

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?

The empire, the Anglophone Atlantic world and Europe

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

The kilt and the bagpipes

Who referred to the UK as the 'cool britannia'

Tony Blair

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

Welsh (Cymraeg)

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

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

Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When did the British Empire achieve its largest territorial extent?

after wwi (1921)

Name three practices through which white pople in the UK demonstrate that British Asians are not accepted as British because of their race/ cultural background

jokes, harassment, violence, discrimination

How many British overseas territories and Commonwealth Realms are there?

territories: 14, realms 16

Which 3 flags are used in Northern Ireland?

the Ulster Banner, the tricolour and cross of st. patrick