Section A Quiz
Choose the correct answer.

1. What is Stonehenge?
a royal castle
 a prehistoric monument
 a historic document

 
2. What cvas Magna Carta?
a royal castle
 a prehistoric monument
 a historic document

 
3. Where is Hadrian's Wall?
in London
 in Edinburgh
 on the English-Scottish border

 
4. Who won the Civil War in the seventeenth century?
the Cavaliers
 the Roundheads
 the Vikings

 
5. In what part of England is Wessex?
the north-west
 the north-east
 the south-west

 

6. Which of these place names is of partly Roman origin?
Birmingham
 Leeds
 Manchester

 
7. Which people settled in large numbers in Britain?
the Anglo-Saxons
 the Normans
 the Romans

 
8. In which century was there a single parliament for the whole of Britain and Ireland?
the seventeenth
 the eighteenth
 the nineteenth

 
9. In which century did England and Scotland first have the same monarch?
the seventeenth
 the eighteenth
 the nineteenth
 the twentieth

 
10. In which century did England and Scotland first have the same parliament?
the seventeenth
 the eighteenth
 the nineteenth
 the twentieth

 
11. Which century saw the greatest extent of the British empire?
the seventeenth
 the eighteenth
 the nineteenth
 the twentieth

 
12. In which century was the last battle to be fought on British soil?
the seventeenth
 the eighteenth
 the nineteenth
 the twentieth

 
13. In the middle of the twentieth century, a joke history book was published. It satirized the way

history was taught in schools at that time, which typically involved the memorizing of lots of dates. What do you think its title was?
1066 And All That
 1328 And All That
 1492 And All That

 
14. In the 1980s, the BBC compiled a computer video package of very detailed information about every place in Britain. It timed the publication to fall on a particular anniversary. In which year was it published?
1985
 1986
 1987