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Exploring British Culture and History

Test your knowledge about British culture, history, and significant events that shaped the nation. This quiz covers a range of topics to enhance your understanding of British identity.

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1 [146] The ________ are strongly influenced by British political culture.

2 [216] The experience of military, political and economic power from the rise of the ________, led to a very specific drive in artistic technique, taste and sensibility in the United Kingdom.

3 The people of the ________ are British by citizenship, via origins or naturalisation.

4 [55] The English had unified under a single nation state in 937 by King Athelstan of Wessex after the ________.

5 [63] King ________ was the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty, a Welsh royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603.

6 [37] By 1890, there were over 1.5 million further British-born people living in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and ________.

7 The Roman conquest of Britain introduced Romans to Britain, who upon their arrival recorded that in what is now southern England were people from ________,[49] in west Britain were the Ordovices, the Demetae, the Silures and the Deceangli tribes.

8 What is the metropolitan population of British people?

9 Doctor Who a British science fiction television programme produced by the ________, was third.

10 [40][41] By 50 BC Greek geographers were using equivalents of Prettanikē as a collective name for the ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in a career lasting four decades, British actor William Lugg appeared in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1884 and the film Scrooge in 1913.
  • in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008.
  • during World War I, Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons.
  • after William Finch described Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more Gates of Delhi (example pictured) were built by the Mughals and British — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition.
  • the British band Echo & the Bunnymen's eighth studio album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart.
  • the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of rower Steve Fairbairn.
  • the English of Selim Aga, a former slave from Sudan, was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton.
  • the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people.
  • the Gloster Survey, a 1920s British photo-survey biplane, had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued.
  • a 2006 survey found that the sleeping position preferred by 50% of British couples is back-to-back.
  • Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, a British flying ace of World War I, scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC.
  • British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two.
  • British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings.
  • British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer-husband.
  • 18th–19th century British fur trader John Johnston was a leader in the Ojibwa tribe near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA.
  • British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world.
  • British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army.
  • Michael Lockett, a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan.
  • Lucas Murray, who was born blind, is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins, called echolocation.
  • Kodaikanal Lake (pictured) was developed in 1863, amid the town of the same name, by the British and early missionaries from the USA.
  • 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India.
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