Quiz on British History and Geography

The centre of Britain's political life is …

• Westminster Palace

• The Tower of London

• Westminster Abbey

• the City

The most powerful Celtic tribe

• angles

• picts

• britons

• saxons

London was the first mentioned by

• the Romans

• the Angles

• the Celtic tribes

• the Normans

The British monarch's main residence in London …

• Buckingham palace

• Royal Greenwich Observatory

• The Houses of Parliament

• St Paul's Cathedral

The centre of the woolen industry

• Leeds

• Manchester

• Grimsby

• Liverpool

Speaker's corner is in …

• Hyde park

• Green park

• Kensington gardens

• Regent's park

"The Backbone of England" is …

• the Pennine Chains

• the Cumbrian mountains

• the Cheviot hills

• the Grampian mountains

The most important mineral resources of GB …

• coal and iron

• oil and marble

• copper and china-clay

• steel and zinc

The Tower of London was built by …

• William the Conqueror

• the Duke of Wellington

• Sir Christopher Wren

• King Edward I

Britain has been a member of the European Community (EC) since …

• 1973

• 1931

• 1984

• 1938