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
