Skip to main content

Exploring Great Britain: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about Great Britain with this engaging quiz covering geography, history, and culture.

#Great Britain #Geography #History #Culture #Religion #Population

1 How many metres above sea level is Great Britain?

2 The south-east of Scotland was colonised by the ________ and formed, until 1018, a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria.

3 ________ is the largest religion on the island and has been since the Early Middle Ages, though its existence on the island dates back to the Roman introduction in antiquity and continued through Early Insular Christianity.

4 What is the metropolitan population of Great Britain?

5 The union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland began with the 1603 Union of Crowns, a personal union under ________, I of England.

6 Where is Great Britain?

7 For 500 years after the Roman Empire fell, the Britons of the south and east of the island were assimilated or displaced by invading Germanic tribes (________, Saxons, and Jutes, often referred to collectively as Anglo-Saxons).

8 Old French Bretaigne (whence also Modern French ________) and Middle English Bretayne, авBreteyne.

9 The ________, a form of Protestantism with a Presbyterian system of ecclesiastical polity is the third most numerous on the island with around 2.1 million members.

10 [13] An alternative hypothesis is that much of the land was inundated about the same time by a ________, caused by a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway known as the Storegga Slide.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the British art collector Sir George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting (pictured), with him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case.
  • the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain.
  • the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks, and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks.
  • the British Velocette MAC (WD) 350cc single was Velocette's first military motorcycle for World War Two.
  • the British Velocette Valiant motorcycle launched in 1956 was criticised for its underpowered engine.
  • the 350cc engine in the 1949 Douglas Mark III British motorcycle was based on a WW2 electricity generator engine.
  • the 1970 Triumph Bandit British motorcycle never went into commercial production and only five have survived.
  • the 1935 500cc Vincent Meteor British motorcycle was powered by Vincent Motorcycles' first in-house developed engine.
  • the 1927 British AJW Summit v-twin motorcycle was capable of 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph).
  • the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Dick and the Duchess was one of the few American television series filmed in England.
  • the 1960 Velocette Viper British motorcycle was one of the first to have glass fibre enclosure panels.
  • the 1964 British BSA Thunderbolt motorcycle was capable of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
  • the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke, just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I.
  • the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War.
  • the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain, includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain.
  • the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence.
  • the Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title.
  • the Shapwick Hoard, found by metal detecting cousins in 1998, contained the largest number of silver denarii ever found in Great Britain and was equivalent to ten years' pay for a Roman legionary.
  • the Triumph Tiger T110 British sports motorcycle was fitted with enclosed panels in 1961, which earned it the nickname "the bathtub".
  • the history of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865, the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland.
  • the History of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865, the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland.
  • the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show.
  • the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus is less common around Great Britain than the giant squid Architeuthis dux.
  • the Cannock Chase murders sparked one of the largest manhunts in British history.
  • the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris was the home of King James II for 13 years after his exile from Great Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
  • the Gough Map, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366.
  • the 1921 Triumph Ricardo British motorcycle was capable of over 70 mph and set three world speed records.
  • the 1919 BSA Model E British motorcycle (pictured) was the first of a long line of popular V twins.
  • Jock Wilson, who died at the age of 105 in September 2008, was Great Britain's oldest D-Day veteran.
  • James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936.
  • Peter Knowles, a popular English football player, voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness.
  • Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  • Stefan Knapp, a Polish artist working in Great Britain, used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork.
  • François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was awarded the Order of Saint Louis for his role in the French victory over British General Edward Braddock in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.
  • Crucifix was an undefeated British-bred Thoroughbred racemare, as well as being the dam of three sires.
  • Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s.
  • Bob Foster’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT.
  • British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
  • British motorcycle pioneer Bert Greeves owned a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'.
  • Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the first Australian female pirate.
  • The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies.
  • Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining.
  • only 31 Vincent Grey Flash British motorcycles were ever produced.
  • many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are examples of this.
  • production of the Triumph Tiger 80 British motorcycle ended with the outbreak of WW2 and never resumed after the Triumph works was destroyed in The Blitz.
  • the 110 mph BSA Fury British motorcycle designed by Edward Turner never went into production due to the colapse of the BSA Group.
  • the 120 miles per hour (190 km/h) Healey 1000/4 British motorcycle of 1973 was fitted with a 1000cc engine designed by Edward Turner in 1928.
  • in 1961, a British Velocette Venom motorcycle set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph which has never been equalled since.
  • cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales, the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain.
  • a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain.
  • a messenger pigeon named Commando received the Dickin Medal in 1945 for carrying crucial intelligence from agents in occupied France to Britain during World War II.
  • although Admiral Robert Calder arguably saved Britain from invasion in the battle of Cape Finisterre he was court-martialled for his failure to win a more decisive victory.
  • ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages.
  • besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen.
  • Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe.
    • Previous Quiz Next Quiz

    Related Quizzes

    Key Events and Figures of the 13th Century: A Quiz

    #13th century #history #Mongol Empire #Crusades #European culture #Franciscan order #Cambridge #Boyana Church

    Discovering the 14th Century: A Historical Quiz

    #14th Century #History #Renaissance #Ming Dynasty #Hundred Years' War #Petrarch #Military History

    Exploring the 16th Century: Events, Figures, and Discoveries

    #history #16th century #exploration #Renaissance #Conquistadores #art #politics #religion

    Exploring the 17th Century: Key Events and Figures

    #17th century #history #empires #Mughal Empire #Ottoman Empire #Persian Empire #Taiwan #Hudson's Bay Company #Kara Mustafa #French history

    Exploring the 18th Century: A Historical Quiz

    #18th century #history #quiz #education #literature #philosophy #politics

    Significant Events of 1904

    #1904 #history #events #quiz #education

    Significant Events and Figures of 1906

    #1906 #history #chess #astronomy #civil rights #swimming #biochemistry

    Significant Events and Figures of 1911

    #1911 #history #events #figures #Nobel Prize #aviation #fire incidents #education #composers