Fascinating Facts About English Culture and History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy.

actor Mona Darkfeather, promoted as the first Native American movie star, was actually of English and Mestizo ancestry and a member of the prominent Southern California Workman family.

Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906.

in 1885, over 10,000 mourners attended the funeral of English maidservant Alice Ayres (pictured).

in 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession.

the Winchester Bible, the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible, incorporated the skins of 250 calves.

on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation.

William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America.

The Greencards (pictured) are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman.

English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school.

English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years.

English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play.

RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess.

Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman.

Robert Bristow, the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state.

Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry.

English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom.

Fascinating Facts About English Culture and History

1 What was Alan Rickman's birth name?

2 They had a noticeable impact on the ________: many English words, such as dream, take, they and them are of Old Norse origin, and place names that end in -thwaite and -by are Scandinavian in origin.

3 What was John Lennon's birth name?

4 Which of the following genres does David Bowie produce?

5 A rise in English self-consciousness has resulted, with increased use of the ________.

6 What is the metropolitan population of English people?

7 Who was the successor of Elizabeth I of England?

8 When was John Cleese born?

9 What is Edward VI of England also known as?

10 What is the population of English people?

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