Understanding British Identity and Geography Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864.

despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion.

Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule.

Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School.

Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944.

during Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division suffered 34 casualties, despite the Second World War having ended several days previously.

in an engagement on Lake Huron, a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814.

the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China.

the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II.

the Jesus Army, a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre, another British charity.

the British anti-Islamist group Stop the Islamification of Europe was inspired by a Danish group of the same name.

Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is the oldest mosque in Singapore and was established in 1820, just a year after the British set up a trading post in Singapore.

Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water.

British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency.

British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat.

British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987.

British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner".

British Pre-Raphaelite painter Solomon Joseph Solomon (artist of the picture) was one of the few Jewish painters of his time to become a member of the Royal Academy.

fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing".

Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6.

6 Battery Road, a high-rise in Singapore, was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company.

Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs.

Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.

Arthur Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War, but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered.

Understanding British Identity and Geography

1 ________, which governs the citizens of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the British Crown dependencies

2 ________, the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom

3 ________, are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain, Ireland and over six-thousand smaller islands

4 ________, Britons, or Brits, citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants

5 ________, ancient Celtic inhabitants of the southern portion of the island of Great Britain

6 British is the adjective and demonym associated with ________ and the United Kingdom.

7 ________, the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom

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