Practice Test 10 Flashcards
Shakespeare was a playwright and
Actor
2 film directors
Alfred Hitchcock and Ridley Scott
What does Citizens Advice do?
Give you names of local solicitors and tell you which areas of law they specialise in
2 new national bodies in 1999
Welsh assembly/senedd, and Scottish parliament. Devolved powers.
Sir Francis Drake
Defeating Spanish Armada, and first to circumnavigate the world in his ship golden hind
2 British authors
Arthur Conan Doyle, jk Rowling
Chris hoy
Scottish cyclist, 6 Olympic gold and 1 silver
Kelly holmes
2 Olympic gold for running
Robert Walpole
First prime minister, 1721
Edwin Lutyens
20th century architect, designed the cenotaph in Whitehall
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Gold medal in heptathlon
Mo Farah
Gold medal in 5000m and 10,000m
St Augustine and St Columba during Anglo-Saxon period
Christian missionaries
In 1830s and 1840s, the Charists
Campaigned to reform voting: yearly elections, and all regions to be equal
Sissinghurst
Garden in England