Names
Famous Prime Minister who led Britain to victory during the second WW
Who is Winston Churchill.
Name of former British colony which was seen as the 'crown jewel' of the British Empire.
What is India?
Writer who has stated that 'democracy requires visibility'.
Who is Salman Rushdie?
word for phrases such as 'to pass away'
what is a 'euphemism'?
Name of the political leader of Al Qaeda who was the architect behind the New York terror attacks.
Who was Osama Bin Laden?
The name of a writer who is NOT one of the famous WW1 poets:
a) Sassoon b) Owen
c) Brooke d) Orwell
who is d) George Orwell
The period from 1833 to 1901 was named after this famous British queen.
Who is Queen Victoria?
Person who stated that 'we shall prove ourselves able to 'ride out the storm of war and to outlive the menace of tyranny'?
Who was Winston Churchill?
Name of a specific form of poetry used by Brooke in 'THe Soldier'?
What is a sonnet?
Intergovernmental military organisation established in 1949 between 28 European countries and North America.
What is 'Nato?'
Name of the American president who in 1987 gave a speech in Berlin in which he used the famous phrase: 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall'
Who was Ronald Reagan?
Name of a territorial conflict in South Africa in which the British were involved (1899-1902)
What was 'The Boer War'?
Name of the poem in which it reads:
'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'
What is 'The Soldier'?
Name of specific attitude to war seen in Brooke's poem 'If I should die'?
What is 'Patriotism'?
Intergovernmental organisation formed after the end of the 2 WW to maintain peace and security worldwide
What is the UN? (United Nations)
Name of the person who is said to have invented the term 'iron curtain' to describe the division of Europe into two seperate areas after WW2
Who was Winston Churchill?
Name of the Peace Treaty signed after the end of the first WW.
What is the Versailles Treaty?
The lie that Owen writes about in the poem 'Dulce et decorum est'
what is: ' that it is sweet and honorable to die for your country'?
Name of rhetorical trick used by Churchill here: 'we shall not flag or fail...'
What is an' alliteration'?
Name of leader of a country that - according to Bush - violated the US Security Council Resolution 1441.
Who was Saddam Hussein?
Name of the British Prime Minister who tried to come to a peaceful agreement with the Germans at the outbreak of the 2 WW.
Who was Neville Chamberlain?
Name of the most glorious period in British history?
What is 'The Victorian Age'?
The person who stated that 'Political language ... consists largely of euphemisms, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness'
Who was 'George Orwell'?
Name of speech given by the American President once a year.
What is 'a state of the union address'?
3 different and central 'freedoms' that terrorists are against, according to Rushdie.
what is:
freedom of speech, multi-party political systems, equal rights for all (women, homosexuals...) , universal adult suffrage...