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- Sprache: Englisch
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Dr Peter Zupancic (b. 1946 in Oberhausen, Germany) is a retired English teacher and headmaster and author of several articles on castaway stories and didactic books on aspects of English literature. He is married and has three adult children.
Dear Quizzer,
Welcome to a kaleidoscope of facts.
You are a businessman/businesswoman or tourist who visits GB and/or the USA regularly; a student, teacher or friend of English and the English-speaking world; or simply a native speaker of English.
The following 800 items will test your knowledge of British and American history, politics, geography, culture, literature, music, sport, customs, films, sights, eminent people etc. Do not hesitate to do the quiz together with expert friends if you feel you need help.
The quiz has two targets. On the one hand it is to show you how much you remember concerning the aforementioned fields of knowledge you once heard or read about or dealt with. On the other hand the quiz is going to provide you with a treasure chest of facts which are worth knowing and which will definitely enlarge and improve your general knowledge.
I wish you patience, pleasure and a lot of success.
Peter Zupancic
1
The famous Bayeux tapestry (70m long, 50cm wide) shows the Battle of
Hastings (1066)
Agincourt (1415)
Crécy (1346).
2
Of the following three
California
Texas
Montana
has the largest land area.
3
Which novel title is wrong?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azbakan
4
’Gaol’ rhymes with
foal
fail
foul.
5
Elizabeth II became Queen of England in
1952
1972
1962.
6
In the USA Thanksgiving is celebrated on
the second Sunday in November
the fourth Sunday in October
the fourth Thursday in November.
7
The change of the British currency to the present decimal system happened on
31 October 1968
1 June 1973
15 February 1971.
8
Which of these parks in London are closely together?
Hyde Park and St James’s Park
Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park
Regent’s Park and Green Park
9
On the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
the Washington Monument
the Jefferson Memorial
the White House
is between the Lincoln Memorial and the US Capitol.
10
The Wind in the Willows (1908), a children’s novel, was written by
Beatrix Potter
Kenneth Grahame
Lewis Carroll.
11
’Pomp and Circumstance’, a set of five marches, was composed by
Benjamin Britten
Edward Elgar
Sir William Walton.
12
In Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Sir Alec Guinness played
eight
three
five
parts, both male and female.
13
The Watergate Scandal (1974) was revealed by reporters of
the New York Times
the International Herald Tribune
the Washington Post.
14
The former British colony Rhodesia is now called
Tanzania
Botswana
Zimbabwe.
15
The second astronaut to step on the moon was
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins.
16
Which spelling is correct?
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlok Holmes
Sherlock Homes
17
’Ode to a Nightingale’ is a long poem by
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
18
Which of them suffered from stuttering?
King George V
King Edward VIII
King George VI
19
Who was England never invaded by?
Normans
the Spanish
Danish Vikings
20
The capital of Texas is
Dallas
Houston
Austin.
21
The Bodleian Library is the main library of
London University
Cambridge University
Oxford University.
22
Which of these Underground lines connects Heathrow Airport with the London city centre?
the Piccadilly Line
the District Line
the Central Line
23
The Crown Jewels are in
Buckingham Palace
the British Museum
the Tower of London.
A view of Manhattan, New York City.
24
In Journal of the Plague Year (1722) Daniel Defoe describes the great pestilence in
Gloucester
London
Bristol.
25
The world’s first railway in which passengers were carried on steam trains in the 1820s ran between
Stockton and Darlington
Newcastle and Sunderland
Durham and Chester le Street.
26
Which of these cities has lost population most dramatically over the last 30 years?
Detroit
Baltimore
Cleveland
27
Porgy and Bess (1935), a musical play, was composed by
Cole Porter
George Gershwin
Oscar Hammerstein.
28
Anglo-Saxon is identical with
Norman French
Danish
Old English.
29
Which statement is correct?
Captain James Cook was killed on Tahiti.
Cook conducted his expeditions in the first half of the 18th century.
Cook learned his seamanship at Whitby.
30
The First Folio, the first collection of Shakespeare’s plays, was published in
1623
1616
1630.
31
Which of these cities was called ’Eboracum’ by the
Romans?
Bath
York
Chester
32
When London has 12 o’clock in the daytime San Diego in California has
8 p.m.
4 a.m.
5 a.m.
33
Hampton Court, a grand palace beside the River Thames, was built for
King Henry VII
King Edward VI
King Henry VIII.
34
Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated in Britain every October or November by
Indians
Pakistanis
people from the Caribbean.
35
Which of these former colonies was once called the Gold Coast?
Nigeria
Ghana
Cameroon
36
The Concorde, the first passenger plane to fly faster than the speed of sound (London-New York in under three hours), was designed by
the British
the British and the French
the Americans, the British and the French.
37
Silverstone, Britain’s main motor racing track, is near
Coventry
Nottingham
Northampton.
38
In his short life James Dean acted in
three
five
four
movies.
39
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Winston Smith is afraid of
Room 101
Big Brother
a new war between Eurasia and Oceania.
40
Which of the three statements is wrong?
Robert the Bruce defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314.
Bonny Prince Charlie defeated the English at Culloden in 1746.
William Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge in 1297.
41
The highest mountain in the UK is
Scafell Pike
Mt Snowdon
Ben Nevis.
42
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) Long John Silver, a pirate, has
a parrot on his shoulder
but one arm
a fierce dog at his side.
43
One of the following is not a pet form of ’Elizabeth’:
Betsy
Libby
Ellie.
44
How often was Harold Wilson (Labour Party) elected Prime Minister?
twice
once
three times
45
The national symbol of the United States is
the lark
the bald eagle
the owl.
46
Hadrian’s Wall was built as a protection against
the Welsh
the Scots
the Irish.
47
The capital of Arizona is
Phoenix
Flagstaff
Tucson.
48
The Barbican Centre in London is
a large cultural centre
a huge department store
a famous flea market.
49
D.H. Lawrence wrote three versions of
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
.
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, UK.
50
In 1895 the London Proms were started by
Sir Thomas Beecham
Sir William Walton
Sir Henry Wood.
51
Cheers, a popular US comedy TV programme of the 1980s and 1990s, is set in
New York
Chicago
Boston.
52
Without success Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, tried to turn the people of London against
King James I
Queen Mary I
Queen Elizabeth I
and was beheaded.
53
One of the following counties is British but not English:
Cumbria
Antrim
Dorset.
54
Pierre l’Enfant was
a governer of Louisiana
an architect who designed Washington, D.C.
a mayor of New Orleans.
55
The English word ’regal’ is of
Latin
Danish
Old Saxon origin.
56
The first editor of The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was
Sir James Murray
Dr Samuel Johnson
Noah Webster.
57
Who followed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in 1945?
Clement Attlee
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
58
The Magna Carta was signed by
King John near London in 1215
King John in York in 1215
King Henry III near London in 1315.
59
The highest mountain in the USA is
Mt Whitney
Mt McKinley
Mt Pikes Peak.
60
When someone is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II he has the title
Sire
Lord
Sir.
61
The London stop for trains from the south of England is
St Pancras Station
Victoria Station
Marylebone Station.
62
The United Nations Building in New York is in
Midtown
the Upper West Side
the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
63
The quotation ’But to the girdle do the gods inherit,/Beneath is all the fiend’s’ is taken from Shakespeare’s
Richard III
Othello
King Lear
.
64
When did Hawaii join the US as the 50th state?
1945
1952
1959
65
The
Rio Grande
Colorado River
Missouri River
has cut a remarkable number of extremely deep trenches.
66
The composer George Frideric Handel lived in London from 1712 to 1759 and was a subject of
King George I and King George II
King George I
King George II.
67
These are
the womens
the women’s
the womens’ bikes.
68
Penicillin was discovered by
Dr Joseph Lister
Sir Alexander Fleming
Alexander Graham Bell.
69
In Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) the hero is cast on an uninhabited island in
the Caribbean Sea
the Pacific Ocean
the Indian Ocean.
70
The British Labour Party was formed in
1919
1890
1906.
71
The largest city of New Zealand is
Christchurch
Wellington
Auckland.
72
Queen Victoria reigned
from 1840 to 1899
from 1837 to 1901
from 1845 to 1903.
73
’Speakeasies’ were places in the USA in the 1920s and 1930s where
you could buy alcohol illegally.
you could meet US special agents secretly.
you could publicly criticize the US government.
74
’Though’ rhymes with
dough
rough
enough.
75
The Kennedy Space Center is in
Texas
New Mexico
Florida.
76
Which football team plays in a stadium called ’Old Trafford’ and ’Theatre of Dreams’?
FC Chelsea
Manchester United
Tottenham Hotspur
The iconic Hollywood Sign on the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.
77
Gatwick International Airport is
north
west
south
of London.
78
In the British TV comedy series
Yes, Minister
Fawlty Towers
Spitting Image
large rubber models were used to make fun of famous people by making them do and say ridiculous things.
79
William Frederick Cody was also called
Buffalo Bill
Doc Holliday
Billy the Kid.
80
The British passenger ship Titanic sank in
mid-April 1914
mid-November 1912
mid-April 1912.
81
The biggest city in Scotland is
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Aberdeen.
82
Excalibur is the name of a magic
sword
castle
island.
83
Which spelling is correct?
Caribbean
Carribean
Caribean
84
Queen Victoria was also Empress of
Australia
India
New Zealand.
85
Which statement is correct? The Commonwealth Games take place
in London
in different former colonies every five years
every four years.
86
The capital of Maryland (US) is
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Annapolis.
87
Central Park in NYC has the form of a/an
rectangle
oval
square.
88
The British Museum in London is in
Marylebone W 1
Bloomsbury WC 1
Holborn WC 2.
89
Who wrote the famous Tarzan stories?
William Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anthony Burgess
90
The New York Philharmonic regularly performs in
the Carnegie Hall
the Madison Square Garden
the Avery Fisher Hall.
91
In motion pictures, a process in which three synchronized movie projectors each project one third of the picture on a wide and curving screen is called
Cinerama
CinemaScope
Panavision.
92
The Act of Supremacy (1534) meant that
King Henry VIII was finally allowed to divorce Catharine of Aragon, his first wife.
King Henry VIII was made the head of the Church of England.
England proclaimed itself the leading naval power of Europe.
93
Manchester is between
Birmingham and Liverpool
Liverpool and Leeds
Nottingham and Sheffield.
94
Sir Samuel Cunard (1787 – 1865) founded
the British Museum in London
Warwick University
the first regular Atlantic steamship line.
95
Fudge
Nudge
Budge
is a soft creamy brown sweet food.
96
The action in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in
Verona
Venice
Valencia.
97
In 1998 US President Bill Clinton became the
first
second
third
president to be impeached.
98
In 1485 King Richard III was killed in the Battle of
Flodden
Agincourt
Bosworth Field.
99
Which is the capital of Florida?
Tallahassee
Fort Myers
Jacksonville
100
The national saint of England is
St Patrick
St George
St Andrew.
101
Logan Airport
O’Hare Airport
Dulles Airport
is the international airport of Chicago.
102
Whose head made of rock cannot be seen on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
103
The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768 in
Chicago
London
Edinburgh.
