Geography
British history
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British literature
American literature
100

e.g. 1000 m above the sea level

altitude

100

Who was the first Stuart?

James I. (VI.)

100

How many U.S. presidents resigned?

1 (Richard Nixon)

100

In which play can you see Eliza Doolitle?

Pygmalion

100

On the Road was written by.......

Jack Kerouac

200

e.g. 10°W

longitude

200

Which house was the Red Rose?

Lancasters

200

What happened on the 4 July, 1776?

The Declaration of Independence was signed.

200

Who is the author of The Importance of Being Ernest?

Oscar Wilde

200

Who gave name to the Lost Generation?

Gertrude Stein

300

e.g. 50°N

latitude

300

Who was the first woman Prime Minister?

Margaret Thatcher


300

How many U.S. presidents were assassinated?

4

300

Who are the two detectives in Agatha Christie's books?

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

300

Who wrote the stories of the White Fang?

Jack London

400

What do we call a group of islands?

archipelago 

400

Who was the last Tudor?

Elizabeth I.

400

What states were admitted to the Union in 1959?

Alaska and Hawaii

400

Who wrote Dracula?

Bram Stoker

400

Humbert Humbert is a character in .........

Lolita

500

What is wood for building houses and making furniture called?

timber

500

Who was Elizabeth II.'s father?

George VI.

500

Who were abolitionists?

An abolitionist was someone who wanted to end slavery in the United States before the Civil War.

500

Who wrote these words: 

“O beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”

W. Shakespeare

500

Who was Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

Mark Twain

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