Blue Badge admission test Flashcards
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Name the THREE main periods of Gothic architecture
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Early (1150 - 1200)
High (1200-1300)
Late (1300-1550)
2
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What castles were built by Edward I in his North Wales campaign
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Conway
Caernarfon
Harlech
3
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What is a knot garden
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Intertwining lines of low hedges
4
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name THREE architects famous for their English Baroque style
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Nicholas Hawksmore
John Vanborough (the Orangery)
James Gibbs (St Martin-in-the-Fields)
5
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Who was Carl Linnaeus
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Swedish biologist (1707-1778)
Father of modern taxonomy (classification of organisms)
6
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What is a charnel house
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Vault for human remains/storing bones unearthed whilst grave digging
7
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Name an 18th century landscape gardener
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William Kent
Capability Brown
Humphrey Retpon
Batty Langley
8
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What is the Open House Festival
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September celebration of London’s buildings, architecture and neighbourhoods
9
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Name a building designed by Sir Norman Foster
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City Hall
Wembley Stadium
QEII Great Court (British Museum)
30 St Mary Axe
10
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Where did King Charles go to school?
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Gordonstoun (Scotland)
11
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Where are Airbus wings made?
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Broughton
12
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Give two reasons why the industrial revolution started in Britain
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1) Empire & transport into the colonial market
2) Financial institutions
13
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When did Tim Berners Lee create the internet
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1st January 1983
14
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Which town did William Morris start car manufacture in 1910
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Cowley (Oxfordshire)
William Morris - 1st Viscount Nuffield
15
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How is Josiah Wedgwood related to Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwins maternal grandfather
16
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Name TWO museums dedicated to science and industry
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Science Museum
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
Canal Museum
17
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What is the role of MI5
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National Security Inteligence
18
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What is served with a High Tea
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Sandwiches, cakes, tea
19
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What is served with a Cream Tea
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Tea, Scones, Clottted Cream
20
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Name TWO products with PGI or PGO status
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1) Scotch Beef
2) Wensleydale Cheese
21
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Name the government department responsible for tourism
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Lisa Nandy MP)
22
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Wha is the maximum length of sty for most visitors to the UK entering with a Standard Visitor visa?
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6 months
23
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Which is the city of culture 2025
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Bradford
24
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What does the DM stand for in DMO and DMC
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Destination Marketing Organisation
25
When was English Heritage founded
1983 - to secure the preservation of ancient monuments and historic buildings - (alt. SPAB - William Morris 1877)
26
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty renamed what in 2023
National Landscapes
46 areas
Lake District
Eryri (Snowdonia)
Cairngorms
27
What female footballer has an MBE
Mary Earps (Services to football awarded 2023)
28
Which month do the Wimbledon Tennis Championship take place
July
29
Which month does the Chelsea Flower show take place
May RHS
first in 1913 opened by Queen Alexandra
30
When have the Commonwealth Games been held in the UK
London 1934
Manchester 2002
Birmingham 2022
Glasgow 2026
31
What is Maunday money
Ceremony performed by the monarch Thursday before Easter - £5.50 in a red and white purse given to local pensioners
32
When was William Shakespeare born and died
23rd April 1564 - 23rd April 1616
First folio 2023 (John Hemming & Henry Condell)
33
Name some architectural features of Gothic architecture
Flying Buttresses
Pointed arches
Ribbed vaults
Hammer-beam roof
Spires
34
Name the organisation that awards the Stirling Prize
RIBA - architecture
35
Name an architect that worked in the Palladian style
Inigo Jones (symmetry & proportion - eg first in England - Queens House, Greenwich)
36
Cathederals in Ely, Rochester and Durham are built in which architectural style?
Norman
37
Name the garden designer who worked with Edwin Lutyebs at Munstead Wood (Godalming, Surrey) and Great Dixter
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) - Arts & Crafts movement (terrace walls, stone flag footpaths)
38
Who is associated with Sissinghrst garden
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) - relationship with Virginia Wolf
39
Where can the Stone of Scone be found?
Perth - New Perth Museum (since 2024)
1914 - broken by Suffragete bomb
1950 - theft by Scottish nationalists
40
In which year was the "Marriage Act" passed in England?
2013 (first in Islington Town Hall)
41
Name one of Mary Queen of Scots husbands
Francis II of France
Henry Stewart
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
42
Name the mother of George I
Sophia of Hanover (grand-daughter of James I)
43
Which city id King Cnut curried?
Winchester Cathederal
44
Name TWO countries that provided troops to support Britain at the battle of Waterloo?
i) Prussia
ii) Germany
45
Name the "Kingmaker" who played a crucial part in the Wars of the Roses.
Richard Neville
46
In which year did rationing finally cease in Britain after WWII
1954
47
What is the State Pension age for anybody retiring now?
66
48
Name one New Town created after WWII
Stevenage, Crawley, Hemel Hempstead, Harlow, Hatfield, Basildon, Bracknell, and Milton Keynes outside London
49
Name the only Prime Minister who has been assassinated
Henry Purcival (1812)
50
When did India gain its independence?
1947
51
When did William the Conquerer commission the Domesday Book?
1085 (completed 1087), record the transfer and possession of land, held at the National Archives (Kew)
52
What was the rebellion known as the " Pilgrimage of Grace"?
Yorkshire - October 1536 - Robert Aske - largest Tudor rebellion against the Crown and Thomas Cromwell's policies
53
What does the Sustrans charity promote?
Walking and Cycling national network routes
54
Name two WWI poets
i) Wilfred Owen (Dulce Et Decorum Est)
ii) Robert Graves (Goodbye To All That, I Claudius)
55
5 gardens managed by RHS
Wisley Garden, near Wisley in Surrey;
Rosemoor Garden in Devon;
Hyde Hall in Essex;
Harlow Carr in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
RHS Garden, Bridgewater in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
56
Who is the current Poet Laureate
Simon Armitage
57
Jane Austen
Chawton, Hampshire (1809 -1817) b.1775
1811 - Sense & Sensibility
1813 - Pride & Prejudice
1814 - Mansfield Park
1815 - Emma
1818 - Northanger Abbey (Published after death)
1818 - Persuasion (Published after death)
58
Name a work by the playwright Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine (1580's)
59
Name the Bronte Sisters
Charlotte
Anne
Emily
Elizabeth
Maria
(pseudonyms Curro, Ellis & Acton Bell) Yorkshire based
Jane Eyre
60
Where do cars and coaches board the Eurotunnel's LeShuttle in England?
Folkstone
61
On motorways, what is the speed limit for coaches over 12 meters long?
60mph
62
Name two works by Virginnia Wolf
Mrs Dalloway
Orlando
63
Which literary festival takes place between May & June?
Hay
Hay-on-Wye, Wales
64
When was the RNLI founded?
1824 - William Hillary - Isle of Man
65
What is the prescription charge for one item of medication?
£9.90
66
Which university was the first in England to award degrees to women?
University of London - 1874
67
In which year was the Elementary Education Act (or "Forster's Act) first passed?
1870
67
Who funded Sunday schools
Robert Raikes
(1735-1811, Gloucestershire)
68
Name three British vineyards
Nyetimber (Sussex), Debbies (dorking)and Chapel Down (Kent)
69
Who was the first "Fist Lord of The Treasury?
Robert Walpole, 1721
70
How many Justices make up the Supreme Court?
12
The president, the deputy president, and ten justices.
71
Statute law is created by Parliament, what creates common law
Judicial precedent
72
Where was Josiah Wedgwood's first factory
Erturia - Stoke
73
What does MI stand for in MI5 & MI6
Military Intelligence
74
When did UK officially leave the European Union
31st January 2020
75
What does Picti mean?
Painted people
76
Who are associated with discovering DNA
(Francis) Crick, Watson, (Rosalind) Franklin and Wilson
1953
77
What was the name of the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his voyage to South America and the Galapogas Islands?
HMS Beagle - 1831 - 1836
78
What did Thomas Telford design?
Caledonian Canal (Scotland)
Menai Suspension Bridge (Wales)
79
Where was the first iron bridge built in Endgland?
Shropshire (1779)
80
What was Joseph Rowntree famous for
English Quaker, Chocolatier, model village New Earswick (outside York) in 1901
81
What did James Watt improve, which provided power for the Industrial Revolution.
The steam engine
82
Give OINE example of an open-air industrial heritage museum in Britain.
Amberley - West Sussex
83
Name two Cubist artists
George Barque & Pablo Picasso C1907
84
Name the Artist who painted during the reign of Elizabeth I and James I
Nicholas Hilliard (painted portrait miniatures)
85
Who was the main court painter of Charles I
Van Dyke
86
Who painted a portrait of King Charles III unveiled in May 2024?
Jonathan Yeo
87
Name a feature of 18thC Yorkshire based Thomas Chippendale's furniture
Cabriole legs, ball claw/paw feet, "s" curves, mahogany
88
Which British sculptress had her studios in St Ives?
Dame Barbara Hepworth
89
Which area of the visual arts are David Bailey, Cecil Beaton and Allen Warren associated with?
Photography
90
what was the date of King Charles III coronation
Saturday 6th May 2023
91
Who organises State Funerals and Coronations
Edward Fitzalan-Howard Earl Marshal, 18th Duke of Norfolk
92
Name the head of the armed forces in Britain
Sir Tony Radakin
93
How many countries in the commonwealth?
56 (founded 1949)
94
What is the BBC motto
Nation shall speak unto nation (Royal charter since 1927)
95
Name a famous composition by Edward Elgar
The Enigma Variations
96
What is the longest river in Britain
the River Severn
97
Why is the date 1189 important in the history of the City of London’s governance?
First Lord Mayor
Henry FitzAilwin
(mayor until 1212)
99
Original 12 Livery Companies
Mercers,Grocers,Drapers,Fishmongers,Goldsmiths,Merchant Taylors, Skinners, Habberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vinters, Clothworkers
My Gracious, Darling, For Goodness Sake Make Haste Since I’m Very Cold
113 in total as of 2025
100
Name ONE place in the City associated with Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli.
Frederick's Place
101
Name the coffee house where the Baltic Exchange had its origins.
Virginnia Coffee House
(Threadneedle Street)
Baltic added in 1744 importing tallow
Today: Maritime market information
102
Where was the first coffee house I London
Jamaica Inn, 1652
Pasqua Rosee,
St Michaels Alley
103
The City Bridge Trust was renamed in September 2023. What is the new name?
City Bridge Foundation
Bridge House Estates
1176 stone London Bridge
Eleanor of Provence - the "Fair Lady" (Henry III)
104
Which years are covered by Samuel Pepys’ Diary?
1660 - 1669
105
Name the church designed by Sir Christopher Wren on Ludgate Hill to the west of St Paul’s Cathedral.
St Martin, Ludgate
St Martin of Tours
Patron saint of soldiers, beggars and France.
Father of monasticism in Gaul, and the first great leader of Western monasticism.
Feast day is Nov 11th – Armistice Day
106
Name the TWO Livery Companies which are involved with the making of bows and arrows.
Bowyers & Fletchers
Welsh Longbow
6ft long, 130lb force, 1000ft range.
Forced practice on Sunday, Keep string under hat Edward III Crecy (1346), Black Prince Henry V, Agincourt (1415)
107
What is "Swan Upping"
3rd week of July for 5days
Vintners & Dyers
share with the Monarch (Seigneur of the Swans) - 12th C origins
108
Name the first female Lord Mayor
Dame Mary Donaldson (1983)
109
What is a Park Pale
A ditch/bank boundary marker of a medieval deer enclosure
110
what is tempura
paint made using pigment and egg whites, before the renaissance & oil paints
111
What is steel?
an alloy of iron and carbon - more flexible than iron
112
Service industries make up what
percentage of the UK’s GDP?
81%
113
Financial services sector make up what
percentage of the UK’s GDP?
8.8%
114
Tourism make up what
percentage of the UK’s GDP?
4%
115
What is cider made with pears called?
Perry
116
What is Swan Upping
The annual count of swans on the River Thames takes place on the third week of July for five days carried out by the Vinters and Dyers company. Monarch has the title of Seigneour of the Swans
117
What is the name of paint made with egg whites?
Tempura
