1. When did the Vikings first visit Britain to raid coastal towns and take away goods and slaves?

2. Where can Admiral Nelson’s ship known as HMS Victory be visited?

3. Who were the Puritans?

4. What is the name of the battle where the Scottish led by Robert the Bruce defeated the English in 1314?

5. Charles I wanted the worship of the Church of England to include more ceremony and introduced a revised Prayer Book:

6. The line ‘to be or not to be’ belongs to which of the following plays or poems written by William Shakespeare?

7. During the Crusades, European Christians fought for the control of:

8. Which of the following words comes from the Viking language?

9. Who took the British throne after the death of Henry VIII?

10. What was the name of the project through which the atomic bomb was developed?

11. Who supported the Parliament during the Civil War that began in 1642?

12. When Henry VIII took the title ‘King of Ireland’. English laws were introduced and everyone except for local leaders were expected to follow the instructions of the Lord Lieutenants in Dublin:

13. Who was the first person to lead a Roman invasion in Britain in 55 BC?

14. What is the meaning of the term the ‘Divine Right of Kings’?

15. When was Lincoln Cathedral built?

16. How old was Edward VI when he died?

17. What name was given to those who supported the king during the Civil War that began in 1642?

18. By 1200, the English ruled an area of Scotland known as the Pale, around Edinburgh:

19. After the Second World War, England was exhausted economically.

20. Who was Florence Nightingale?

21. Who was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1945 to 1951?

22. Queen Elizabeth I was a Catholic:

23. When did King Edward I of England introduce the Statute of Rhuddlan by which Wales annexed to the Crown of England?

24. The settlements of Scottish and English Protestants in Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, who took over the land from Catholic landholders is known as: