UK history
This monarch’s 63-year reign from 1837 to 1901 is associated with industrial progress and global expansion.
Queen Victoria
1) The Amendment that abolished the slavery (when and which one)
1) 1865, the 13th Amendment
1) Official flower of England
red Tudor rose
1) This battle in 1066 marked the beginning of Norman rule in England.
2) This document signed in 1215 limited the king’s power.
1) Battle of Hastings
2) Magna Carta
1) The U.S. President during the Civil War.
2) The period after the Civil War aimed at rebuilding the South.
1) Abraham Lincoln
2) Reconstruction
1) How many stripes are there on the US flag and why?
2) Which American state has the Grand Canyon?
1) 13 (13 first colonies)
2) Arizona
1) When and who founded the Church of England?
2) The 17th-century conflict between Parliamentarians and Royalists
3) The 1688 overthrow of James II is known as this.
1) Henry VIII
2) English Civil Wars
3) The Glorious Revolution
1) The first permanent English colony in North America (name and date)
2) The name of the 'lost' colony
3) The 1773 protest where colonists dumped British goods into the harbor.
1) Virginia, Jamestown, 1607
2) The Roanoke colony
3) Boston Tea Party
1) What are the nicknames of the US flag?
2) What is the name of the U.S. national anthem?
3) What is the famous prehistoric sight in Wiltshire?
1) Old Glory, the Stars and the Stripes, Star-Spangled Banner
2) Star-Spangled Banner
3) Stonehenge
1) This event/law/reform in 1707 united England and Scotland under one Parliament.
2) The main cause of mass emigration from Ireland in the 1840s.
3) This conflict at the turn of the 20th century took place in South Africa.
4) The monarch which established the Tudor dynasty and what are the highlights of his reign
1)The Act of Union
2) The Irish Potato Famine
3) The Boers Wars
4) Henry VII
1) The most prominent author of Declaration of Independence
2) Name the first 3 presidents of the USA in chronological order
3) The name of the Viking who reached North America in the 11th century
4) The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
1) Thomas Jefferson
2) GW, JA, TJ
3) Leif Erikson
4) The Bill of Rights
1) What is the largest lake in Scotland, famous for its legend?
2) What is the nickname of the UK flag?
3) Which country is not represented on the UK flag
4) What is the Commonwealth of Nations
1) Loch Ness
2) Union Jack
3) Wales
1) Find a false fact about Elizabeth I:
- She defeated the Spanish Armada in 1587
- Her reforms allowed for some Catholic elements but were largely Protestant
- Had several nicknames, some of them being The Virgin Queen and Good Queen Bess
2) Where was the Great Exhibition of 1851 held and under the reign of which monarch?
3) Name 2 of the closest advisors of Henry VIII
4) Name the leader of the Gunpowder plot
5) 'The sun never sets on the British Empire' explain the phrase and tell which monarch it is associated with
1) She defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
2) The Crystal Palace
3) Thomas Moore, Thomas Cromwell
4) Robert Catesby
5) Queen Victoria
1) The 1863 battle considered the turning point of the Civil War.
2) The group of post–Civil War laws that imposed racial segregation in the South. The nickname and the real name
3) The expedition that explored the new western territory after 1803.
4) In 1803, it doubled the size of the U.S.
5) The names of the two sides in the Civil War
1) Battle of Gettysburg
2) the segregation laws/Jim Crow laws
3) Lewis and Clark Expedition
4) Louisiana Purchase
5) The Union and The Confederacy
1) Name all Henry's wives in chronological order
2) Name the official residences of: -US president; -UK monarch
3) What is the highest mountain in the UK?
4) What is the national animal of Scotland
5) Which American landmark was completed in 1937 and spans San Francisco Bay?
3) Ben Nevis