British Empire AMC

AMERICA

100

Name of the land discovered by John Cabot.

Newfoundland

200

Name of the lost American colony that disappeared in the late 16th century.

Roanoke

300

New York has not always been named New York. Before the British captured the land, it was called...

New Amsterdam

400

Name of the British king against which the 13 American colonies rebelled

King George III

500

Which religious group fled England in the 17th century because of religious persecution?

Puritans

ASIA

100

The Sanskrit word for 'rule'

Raj

200

Name of the company that ruled India for nearly one century before power was transferred to the British Parliament.

EIC : East India Company

300

Which leader led a successful movement of peaceful resistance and civil disobedience to obtain independence from Britain?

Mahatma Gandhi

400

This place was leased to the British by China for 99 years

Hong Kong

500

Singapore has always been a strategic...

trading port

OCEANIA

100

Name of the captain that 'discovered' New Zealand and Australia.

James Cook

200

Name of the ship on which the British made their first expedition to the Pacific ocean

HMS Endeavour

300

Name of the treaty that the British signed with local tribes in order to obtain sovereignty over New Zealand

Treaty of Waitangi

400

How do you call the natives from New Zealand and the natives from Australia? 2 answers

Maoris - Aborigenes

500

Where exactly in Australia were the first British convicts sent?

Botany Bay (which is near Sydney)

AFRICA

100

Former name of Ghana

The Gold Coast

200

The name of a flat-topped mountain in South Africa

Table Mountain

300

Which of these 5 African countries was not part of the British Empire? Nigeria - Kenya - Tanzania - Congo - Sierra Leone

Congo

400

Which Prime Minister coined the phrase "wind of change" in a speech delivered in South Africa in 1960?

Harold Macmillan

500

Which African nationalist leader danced with Queen Elizabeth II?

Ghana's President Nkrumah

WORDS

100

The letter <e> is pronounced in the same way in the following words: "felon" and "penal"

True or False?

False

200

English word for "prospérer"

thrive

300

Another word than "prisoner" or "felon" to speak about someone who was found guilty

convict

500

Replace the word "end" in the following phrase : "the end of the British Empire". Find 3 solutions.

"dissolution" "liquidation" "dismantling"