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1
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Capital city of Wales?

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Cardiff

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Capital city of Northern Ireland?

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Belfast

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Capital city of Scotland?

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Edinburgh

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Which part of the UK are Dundee and Aberdeen?

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Scotland

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Which part of the UK is Plymouth in Norwich?

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England

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Which part of the UK is Swansea and Newport?

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Wales

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What languages and dialects are spoken in Scotland?

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Gaelic

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What language and dialect is spoken in Northern Ireland?

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Irish Gaelic

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9
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How many people were in the UK by 2010?

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62 million

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10
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What is the proportion of the population?

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England 85%
Scotland 8%
Wales 5%
Northern Ireland less than 3%

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Who is the head of the Church of England

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The monarch

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Who is the spiritual leader?

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The archbishop of Canterbury

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13
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What church is the church of Scotland?

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Presbyterian church

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What are the Protestant Christian groups in the UK?

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Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
Quakers

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15
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What is the patron Saints day in Wales?

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1st March Saint David’s day

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What is the patron saints day in Northern Ireland

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17 March Saint Patrick’s Day

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What is the patron saints day in England?

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23rd April St George’s Day

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18
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What is the patron saint day in Scotland?

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30th November Saint Andrews day

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19
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When do Christians fast?

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Lent, 40 days before Easter, begins on Ash Wednesday

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20
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What is Lent?

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Christian fasting 40 days before Easter

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21
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What is Diwali?

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A festival of light celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs in October or November, it lasts for 5 days

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22
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When is Mother’s Day

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The Sunday three weeks before Easter

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23
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When is Father’s Day?

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3rd Sunday in June

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24
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When is Halloween

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31st of October

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25
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When and why is bonfire night celebrated?

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5th November 1605

Guy Fawkes planned to kill the Protestant King with a bomb in the Houses of Parliament

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26
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What and when is Rememberance Day?

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11 November

Remembering those who died fighting for the UK.

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27
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When did the UK hosted the Olympic Games?

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London 2012

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28
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When did the UK win the football World Cup ?

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1966, Bobby Moore ~> captain

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29
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What did Steve Redgrave win?

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Gold medals in a rowing in five consecutive Olympic Games

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30
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What did Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson win?

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16 Paralympic medals

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31
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What did Dame Kelly Holmes win?

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Two gold medals for running in 2004 Olympic Games

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32
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What did Sir Chris Hoy win?

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Scottish cyclist won six gold and one silver Olympic medals

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33
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What did Sir Mo Farah win?

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British distance Runner, won gold medals for the 5000 and 10,000 metres

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34
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What did Dame Jessica Ennis Hill win?

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Gold medal in the heptathlon

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35
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What did the Andy Murray win

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A Scottish tennis player, first British man to win a singles title in a Grand Slam tournament since 1936

36
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What did Ellie Simmonds win?

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Paralympian, won gold medals for swimming at the 2008 and 2012

37
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What is the famous competition the Ashes?

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A series of cricket Test matches between England and Australia

38
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Name the two types of rugby

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Union

League

39
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Which is the most famous rugby?

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Six Nations is the most famous rugby union competition

40
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Which two are the most important horseracing events?

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Royal Ascot

Grand National

41
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Which place is known as the home of golf and how far can it be traced?

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Saint Andrews in Scotland

15th century

42
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What is associated with the Wimbledon championship?

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Tennis, first tennis club was founded in Leamington Spa in 1872

43
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Which sailing events are held in the UK?

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Cowes on the Isle of Wight

44
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Which two names are associated with watersports?

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Sir Francis Chichester

Sir Robin Knox Johnston

45
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What is the yearly race on the river Thames?

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Rowing race between Oxford and Cambridge universities

46
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Which names are associated with Formula One?

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Damon Hill
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button

47
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How often is Formula One Grand Prix event held in the UK? 

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Once a year and it started in 1902

48
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What is UEFA Champions League?

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Football competition against other teams from Europe

49
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Which are the important buildings built in 17th century?

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Queens house at Greenbridge

Banqueting house in Whitehall in London

50
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What architectural style is the house of Parliament and Saint Pancras station?

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Mediaeval Gothic style

51
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Which famous site did Sir Edwin Lutyens designed?

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Cenotaph in Whitehall

52
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What is the site of the annual Remembrance Day?

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Cenotaph in Whitehall

53
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What does the Turner Prize celebrate?

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Contemporary art

Established in 1984

54
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Who was Joseph Turner?

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Landscape painter

55
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What’s the name of a famous English sculptor an artist?

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Henry Moore

56
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Name two famous landscape painters

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Joseph Turner

John Constable

57
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What is David Hockney associated with?

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PopArt movement of the 1960s

58
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What is the longest running play in the history of theatre?

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The Mousetrap by Dame Agatha Christie

59
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Which comic operas did Gilbert and Sullivan wrote?

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HMS Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado

60
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Who wrote the music for shows as Jesus Christ superstar, Evita, cats and the phantom of the opera?

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

61
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What is the Lawrence Oliver awards?

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Award for best acting and directing

62
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What is the Edinburgh festival?

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Series of different arts and cultural festivals taking place in Edinburgh every summer.

63
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What is the Proms?

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An eight week summer season of Orchestra classical music organised by BBC

64
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Which names are associated with classical and church music?

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Henry Purcell
George Frideric Handel
Ralph Vaghan Williams

65
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Name 3 famous British fashion designers

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Mary Quant
Alexander McQueen
Vivienne Westwood

66
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Name a furniture designer of 18th century

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Thomas Chippendale

67
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Name some of the Nobel Prize writers and novelists. 

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Sir William Golding
Seamus Heaney
Harold Pinter

68
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Name a famous novels by Jane Austen

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Pride and prejudice

Sense and sensibility

69
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Name famous novels by Charles Dickens

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Oliver twist

Great expectations

70
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Name novels by Thomas Hardy

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Far from the Madding crowd

Jude the obscure

71
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Who wrote the stories of Sherlock Holmes?

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

72
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Name novels by Graham Greene

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The heart of the matter
The Honorary Consul
Brighton Rock
Our man in Havana

73
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Who wrote Harry Potter?

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J. K. Rowling

74
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Name famous poets of the 19th century

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William Blake
Lord Byron
Robert and Elizabeth Browning

75
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Name famous gardens in England and Wales

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Sissinghurst in England

Bodnant Garden in Wales

76
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Which flowers are associated with different parts of the UK?

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England the rose
Scotland the Thistle
Wales daffodil
Northern Ireland the Shamrock

77
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Name two famous film directors

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Sir Alfred Hitchcock

Ridley-Scott

78
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Name British actors who won Oscars

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Colin Firth, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Tilda Swinton

79
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What is BAFTA Awards?

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An annual British Academy of Film Awards, it’s an equivalent of American Oscars

80
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What was the famous satirical magazine in the 19th century?

81
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What is the National Trust?

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Charity that preserves important buildings, coastline and countryside in the UK

82
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What is the Giants Causeway?

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Land formation of columns made from volcanic lava in Northern Ireland

83
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What is the highest mountain in Wales called?

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Snowdon in Snowdonia

84
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Which is the largest national park in England?

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The Lake District

85
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Who built the Tower of London?

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William the Conqueror when he became king in 1066

86
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Where can crown jewels be seen?

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The Tower of London

87
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Where is Loch Lomond?

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