Practice Test 10

Question 1

Shakespeare was a playwright and

Answer 1

Actor

Question 2

2 film directors

Answer 2

Alfred Hitchcock and Ridley Scott

Question 3

What does Citizens Advice do?

Answer 3

Give you names of local solicitors and tell you which areas of law they specialise in

Question 4

2 new national bodies in 1999

Answer 4

Welsh assembly/senedd, and Scottish parliament. Devolved powers.

Question 5

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 5

Defeating Spanish Armada, and first to circumnavigate the world in his ship golden hind

Question 6

2 British authors

Answer 6

Arthur Conan Doyle, jk Rowling

Question 7

Chris hoy

Answer 7

Scottish cyclist, 6 Olympic gold and 1 silver

Question 8

Kelly holmes

Answer 8

2 Olympic gold for running

Question 9

Robert Walpole

Answer 9

First prime minister, 1721

Question 10

Edwin Lutyens

Answer 10

20th century architect, designed the cenotaph in Whitehall

Question 11

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Answer 11

Gold medal in heptathlon

Question 12

Mo Farah

Answer 12

Gold medal in 5000m and 10,000m

Question 13

St Augustine and St Columba during Anglo-Saxon period

Answer 13

Christian missionaries

Question 14

In 1830s and 1840s, the Charists

Answer 14

Campaigned to reform voting: yearly elections, and all regions to be equal

Question 15

Sissinghurst

Answer 15

Garden in England

Question 16

Bodnant Gardens

Answer 16

In wales

Question 17

Cavaliers vs Roundheads

Answer 17

During English civil war; supporters of the king, supporters of parliament

Question 18

St Andrew is patron Saint of

Answer 18

Scotland