Long & Illustrious History

Question 1

Stone Age Britain’s first people?

Answer 1

Hunter-gatherers

Question 2

What connected Stone Age Britain to the continent?

Answer 2

Land Bridge

Question 3

How long ago did the first farmers arrive in Britain?

Answer 3

6,000

Question 4

Where does Stonehenge stand?

Answer 4

English county of Wiltshire

Question 5

Skara Brae on Orkney, another Stone Age site, is where?

Answer 5

North coast of Scotland

Question 6

The first Prime Minister. 1721 to 1742.

Answer 6

Sir Robert Walpole

Question 7

T/F: The Union Flag consists of 4 crosses, one for each part of the United Kingdom.

Answer 7

False.

Question 8

What do the 3 crosses of the Union Flag represent?

Answer 8

St George (England), St Andrew (Scotland) and St Patrick (Ireland)

Question 9

Two important aspects of the Reform Act of 1832.

Answer 9

Greatly increased the number of people who could vote and abolished rotten boroughs

Question 10

What two wars were English kinds involved in during the Middles Ages?

Question 11

What was the Reformation?

Answer 11

Movement against the authority of the Pope

Question 12

T/F: The Emancipation Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

T/F: When Queen Anne died in 1974, parliament chose a German to be the next king of England.

Answer 13

True. George I.

Question 14

In the 19th century, the UK produced more than half the world’s supply of this product.