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Question		Answer
two interuptions start learning		feminism/ question of race
2. What is the title of “one of the great seminal books of the Centre for Cultural Studies” that makes reference to Star Wars? start learning		The Empire Strikes Back
3. What disease does Stuart Hall refer to in his article on Cultural Studies? start learning		Marxism, AIDS
4. Who is the author the list of characteristic English features which includes, among other things, 99“Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August” that Claire Hobbs mentions? start learning		T.S. Eliot
5. What is the name of the three-wheeled vehicle for “the economically challenged” that Hobbs mentions? start learning		Reliant Robin
6. What is the term for the reduction or removal of Parliamentary rule by Westminster over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? start learning		The Sewel Convention
7. What is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the UK? start learning		Palace of Westminster
8. What is the name of the lower house of the Parliament of the UK? start learning		House of Commons
9. What is the name of the upper house of the Parliament of the UK? start learning		House of Lords,
10. What is the title of Raymond Williams’s 1976 work in which he provides a number of unconventional definitions of such terms as ‘culture’? start learning		Keywords
11. What does Raymond Williams compare culture to in his book Culture and Society? start learning		A way of life
title of Matthew Arnold’s famous work start learning		Culture and Anarchy
13. How does Matthew Arnold refer to the middle class? start learning		Philistines
14. According to Roland Barthes, what can ideology be equalled with? start learning		Mythmaking
15. What is Barthes’s most celebrated example of myth making? start learning		A photo of a black soldier saluting a French flag
16. Give one of the many names the Cultural Studies is called. start learning		Area studies
17. What structure of unknown purpose was built any time from 3000 BC to 2000 BC on Salisbury Plain? start learning		Stonehenge
18. What was built by the Romans in the 2nd century to protect the northern border of Britannia from the attacks by Scots and Picts? start learning		Hadrian’s Wall
19. Who was the only monarch in English history to be given the title of ‘Great’ start learning		Alfred The Great
20. What famous battle happened in 1066? start learning		Hastings
21. What was the name of the king who died in the Battle of Hastings? start learning		Harold II (Harold Godwinson)
22. What was the name of the Norman leader who was crowned the king of England in 1066? start learning		William the Conqueror
23. What was the name of the three-decade conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York? start learning		War of The Roses (1455 – 1487)
24. What flower symbolised the House of York? start learning		White Rose
25. What flower symbolised the House of Lancaster? start learning		Red Rose
26. What was the name of the monarch who established the Church of England? Henry VIII start learning		26 What was the name of the monarch who established the Church of England? Henry VIII
27. How many wives did Henry VIII have? start learning		Six
28. Name one of Henry VIII’s wives. Anne Boleyn start learning		28 Name one of Henry VIII's wives. Anne Boleyn
29. What was the name of Henry VIII’s daughter who later became the queen of England? start learning		Mary I / Elizabeth I
30. What was the term Elizabeth I was referred to (in connection with her purity)? start learning		The Virgin Queen
31. What was the name of Elizabeth’s half-sister who was famous for her religious ardour? start learning		Mary I
32. Who was referred to as the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth? start learning		Oliver Cromwell
33. What event that effectively ended the epidemic of bubonic plague happened in 1666? start learning		The Great Fire of London
34. What was the name of the acts under which the United Kingdom of Great Britain was created in 1707? start learning		Act of Union 1707
35. Who was the longest reigning monarch in British history? start learning		Queen Victoria
36. What was Victoria’s husband’s name? start learning		Prince Albert
37. Who wrote the play Look Back in Anger (1955) start learning		John Osborne
38. Which media corporation proved to be a cultural pioneer from the 1940s onwards? start learning		BBC
39. What event took place in 1951 to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition? start learning		Festival of Britain
40. Name one of the changes introduced by the Clement Atlee cabinet between 1945 and 1951. start learning		Nationalization of industry
41. Name one of the countries that were granted self-governments by the Atlee government. start learning		India, Pakistan
42. What was the name of the Labour Home Secretary in the Harold Macmillan cabinet that is associated with pioneering social changes (such as decriminalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce)? start learning		Roy Jenkins
43. What happened in the Queen’s life in 1977? start learning		Silver Jubilee
44. What is the title of the Sex Pistols song that mocks the Queen and refers to very dark future? start learning		God Save the Queen
45. What is the name of the tragic event of 1972 in which 14 unarmed civilians were shot by the British army in Derry? start learning		Bloody Sunday
46. Name one artist whose song was inspired by the 1972 Derry shooting. start learning		U2, John Lennon
47. What is the general name for the ethno-nationalist conflict in Nothern Ireland that lasted since 1960s until the late 1990s? start learning		The Troubles
48. What is the name of the Irish revolutionary military organisation established after the Easter Rising of 1916? start learning		IRA
49. Who was referred to as the Iron Lady? start learning		Margaret Tatcher
50. What was the name of the military conflict of 1982 between the UK and Argentina? start learning		Falklands War
51. What is the name of the national health care organisation in the UK? start learning		NHS
52. Name one of the significant events in British history or politics that happened in 1997. start learning		The death of princess Diana
53. What was the name of the late 1980s social phenomenon of the money-making youth engaged in stock- broking, investment and merchant banking? start learning		Yuppie
54. Who was the British Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher? start learning		John Major
55. Who was the British Prime Minister after Tony Blair? start learning		Gordon Brown
56. What is the address of every British Prime Minister? start learning		10 Downing Street
57. Who is the incumbent British Prime Minister? start learning		David Cameron
58. Who is the incumbent British Prime Minister’s deputy? start learning		Nick Clegg
59. What is the name of the political party that is currently in the opposition in the UK? start learning		Labour Party
60. Who is the incumbent First Minister of Scotland? start learning		Alex Salmond
61. What is the name of the agreement between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government, signed on 15 October 2012 at St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, on the terms for the Scottish independence referendum, 2014? start learning		Edinburgh Agreement
62. What is the name of the nuclear program that encompasses the development, procurement and operation of the current generation of British nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them? start learning		UK Trident programme
63. What is the name of the first in line to the British throne? start learning		Prince Charles
64. What is the name of Prince Charles’s wife? start learning		Camilla Rosemary
65. What is the name of Elizabeth II’s husband? start learning		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
66. What is the title that was granted to Kate Middleton upon her marriage to Prince William? start learning		Duchess of Cambridge
67. What is the capital of Wales? start learning		Cardiff
68. What is the capital of Northern Ireland? start learning		Belfast
69. What is the capital of The Republic of Ireland? start learning		Dublin
70. What is the capital of Scotland? start learning		Edinburgh
71. What is the Irish name of Ireland? start learning		Éire
72. What is the name of British currency? start learning		Pound sterling
73. What is the early Greek and Roman name for Great Britain that refers to white cliffs of Dover? start learning		Albion
74. What is the name the Romans gave to their southern British province and the female embodiment of Britain? start learning		Britannia
75. What is the name of the fictional character who is supposed to personify Englishness? start learning		John Bull
76. What was the Roman name for Scotland? start learning		Caledonia
77. What was the Roman name for Wales? start learning		Cambria
78. What was the Roman name for Ireland? start learning		Hibernia
79. What is the flag of England? start learning		St George's Cross
80. What is the flag of Wales? start learning		The flag incorporates the Red Dragon of Cadwaladr, King of Gwynedd, along with the Tudor colours of green and white
81. What is the flag of Scotland start learning		Saint Andrew's Cross
82. What is the flag of Ireland? start learning		Saint Patrick's Cross is a red saltire (X-shaped cross) on a white field,
83. What is the flag of The Republic of Ireland? start learning		Irish tricolour – is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white, and orange.
84. What is the national plant of England? start learning		rose
85. What are the national plants of Wales? start learning		Daffodil, leek
86. What is the national plant of Scotland? start learning		thistle
87. What is the national plant of Ireland? start learning		shamrock
88. What is the national colour of England? start learning		White and red
89. What is the national colour of Wales? start learning		red
90. What is the national colour of Scotland? start learning		Blue and white
91. What is the national colour of Ireland? start learning		Blue and green
92. Who is the patron saint of England? start learning		Saint George
93. Who is the patron saint of Wales? start learning		Saint David
94. Who is the patron saint of Scotland? start learning		Saint Andrew
95. Who is the patron saint of Ireland? start learning		Saint Patrick
96. Who is the head of English Church? start learning		Elizabeth II
97. The names with the prefices ‘Mac’ and ‘O’ are traditional for which country? start learning		Ireland
98. What is the Scottish version of the name ‘John’? start learning		Ian
99. What is the Iris version of the name ‘John’? start learning		Sean
100. According to the 2006 poll, what is the estimated UK total population? start learning		60 406 000
101. What is the name of the British flag? start learning		Union Jack
102. What do Scottish people celebrate of the 25 January? start learning		Burns supper
103. What is the name of the traditional Scottish dish made from sheep’s heart, lungs and liver? start learning		haggis
104. What is the name of the traditional Scottish musical instrument incorrectly translated into Polish as ‘kobza’? start learning		Bag pipes
105. What is the name of the Welsh national hero who established an independent Wales with its own parliament? start learning		Owain Glyndŵr
106. Which breed of dog is customarily associated with the English? start learning		British bulldog
107. What is the name of the most popular annual street festival in Europe? start learning		Notting Hill Carnival
108. Who is the author of the steel sculpture The Angel of the North? start learning		Antony Gormley
109. What is the name used to describe a strong London accent whose notable feature is rhyming slang? start learning		Cockney
110. What is the name of the approach to studying culture through decoding meanings and analysing how they are produced and used in daily life? start learning		Pragmatics
111. What is the name of the approach to studying culture which underlies the general rules and codes operating in any given culture start learning		Structuralism
112. What is the name of the approach to studying culture concerned with discursive practices of congealing meaning and ‘making it true’ by closing it and cutting it off from other perspectives? start learning		Deconstruction
113. What is the title of the emblematic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling? start learning		"The White Man's Burden"
114. What is an unequal human and territorial relationship, usually in the form of an empire, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another? start learning		Imperialism
115. What is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory? start learning		Colonialism
116. What is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism? start learning		Post-colonialism?
117. Name one of the novels in which India intrudes, according to C.C. Eldridge. start learning		Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
118. Name one of the blows that the British Empire suffered in the late 18th century according to C.C. Eldridge. start learning		Loss of American colonies
119. What is the economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that start learning		119 What is the economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century That
promoted governmental regulation of a nation’s economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers? start learning		Mercantilism
120. What is the economic practice in which transactions between private parties are free from government restrictions, tariffs, and subsidies, with only enough regulations to protect property rights? start learning		Laissez-faire
121. What was the name of the school of thought led by Cobden and Bright that viewed colonies as burden on the British exchequer start learning		Manchester Liberalism
122. Who is the author of Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) which predicted the starvation of populations which continued their geometrical growth? start learning		published in 1798 under the alias Joseph Johnson, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus
123. What is the title of Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel? start learning		Things Fall Apart
124. Which author does Achebe call “a thoroughgoing racist”? start learning		Joseph Conrad
125. Which famous late 13th century traveller does Achebe mention in his essay? start learning		Marco Polo
126. Which famous man-made construction was not mentioned in the Description of the World which Achebe interprets as symptomatic of a particular “blindness” of some travellers? start learning		The Great Wall of China
127. Which island in the West Indies was part of Sir Thomas’s property in Jane Austen Mansfield Park? start learning		Antigua
128. According to Edward Said, did John Stuart Mill support India’s independence? start learning		“he always recommended that India not be given independence”
129. Who is the author of White Teeth? start learning		Zadie Smith
130. Name one of the major themes of the novel. start learning		racism
131. What is Samad’s surname? Iqbal start learning		131 What is Samad's surname? Iqbal
132. What is Samad’s best friend’s name? start learning		Archie
133. What is the name of Archie’s pen pal? start learning		Horst Ibelgaufts
134. What does ‘Irie’ mean in Jamaican? start learning		Ok, cool, peace
135. What is the nickname Alsana gives to Neena? start learning		Niece of Shame
136. Who is Irie’s daughter’s father? start learning		Either Millat or Magid
137. What is the acronymic name of the animal activist group Joshua joins? start learning		FATE
138. What is Millat’s brother name? start learning		Magid
139. Which of the twins is sent away? start learning		Magid
140. What is the acronymic name of the Islamic group Millat belongs to? start learning		KEVIN
141. What is the characteristic symptom of Dr Sick’s disease? start learning		Crying with blood
142. What is the name of the project Marcus works on? start learning		Future Mouse
143. What is Samad’s job? start learning		He is a waiter
144. What is the name of the pub Archie frequents? start learning		O'Connell's
145. What does Magit order in his father’s favourite pub? start learning		Bacon sandwich
146. What is the name of Samad’s great grandfather? start learning		Mangal Pande
147. During what natural phenomenon was Hortense born? start learning		Earthquake
148. What is the name of Samad’s English mistress? start learning		Poppy Burt-Jones
149. What crucial body part does Clara miss? start learning		Upper teeth
150. How does Archie solve any dilemma? start learning		Flipping a coin
151. What means of transport does Ryan Topps use? start learning		Scooter
152. What is Irie’s grandmother’s religion? start learning		Jehovah's Witness
153. What is Marcus’s wife’s name? start learning		Joyce Chalfen
154. What is Irie’s job at the Chalfens’ She is studying there start learning		154 What is Irie's job at the Chalfens' She is studying there
155. What is Alsana’s job? start learning		She sews clothing
156. How does Alsana punish her husband after he sends one of the twins away? start learning		She is not talking to him at all
157. What war do Samad and Archie fight in? start learning		World War II
158. What happens to Irie at the hairdresser’s? start learning		They have to put ammonia on Irie’s head to straighten her hair. It causes chemical burns.
159. How many children do the Chalfens have? start learning		Four sons
160. What is Archie’s first wife’s name? start learning		Ophelia Diagilo
161. What is the phrase used to refer to African hair that some people see as “as bad and the N-word”? start learning		Good hair
162. Who are the two main villains in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four? start learning		Jonathan Small & Tonga
163. What drug is Holmes injecting himself with at the beginning of the novel? start learning		Cocaine
164. Name one of the expressions connected with The Sign of the Four which have double meaning. start learning		By injecting himself with cocaine he released sexual tension (sublimation)
165. What are the names of the Sholto brothers? start learning		Thaddeus & Bartholomew
166. What is the name of the house in which one of the brothers is found dead? start learning		Pondicherry Lodge
167. What is the preferred murder weapon of Tonga? start learning		Poison darts
168. Where is Tonga from? start learning		Andaman Islands
169. What is Tonga’s particular feeding habit? start learning		Eating raw meat
170. How did Jonathan Small lose his leg? start learning		It was bitten off by a crocodile
171. Name one of the eponymous four. start learning		Jonathan Small
172. Which historical event of 1857 is mentioned by Small? start learning		The Indian Rebellion of 1857
173. What was the name given by Holmes to a horde of homeless children that “invaded” his lodgings? start learning		The Baker Street irregulars
174. What was the first name of Miss Morstan? start learning		Mary
175. What is the name of the dog Holmes and Watson use to trace the killers? start learning		Toby
176. What was the name of the launch Small hired? start learning		The Aurora
177. Which part of the treasure does Miss Morstan receive? start learning		The Chaplet
178. Who does Holmes dress like in order to trace Small? start learning		An old sailor
179. How does Tonga die? start learning		Tonga was fatally shot by Watson
180. To which animal is Holmes customarily compared? start learning		A dog
181. How would George Bernard Shaw spell ‘fish’? start learning		Ghoti
182. Give an example of linguistic cock-ups in English as mentioned by Harry Bingham. start learning		hiccough
183. How many spellings were there of the word ‘she’ in the 14th and 15th century? start learning		Over 60
184. What is the name of the most senior London-based bureaucrats whose task was to order the rules of the 15th century English spelling? start learning		the Masters of Chancery
185. Give an example of an English word that possesses a silent letter because of a false Latin etymological connection. start learning		Debt
186. Give an example of an English word that possesses a silent letter because of Greek etymological origin. start learning		Island
187. What is the name of a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1700 start learning		Great Vowel Shift
188. How many ways are there to create the sh sound in English? start learning		Thirteen
189. What was the name of the winner of the Shaw’s prize awarded to the creator of a new English alphabet? start learning		Kinsley Read
190. Which English adjectives have two variations based on gender? start learning		Blond, blonde
191. Which ruler is connected with lack of inflection in English? start learning		William the Conqueror
192. Roughly how many new words enter the English language each year? start learning		3000
193. What one name denotes something absolutely top-notch, canine testicles and this symbol “:—“? start learning		Bollocks
194. Name one of the six assets of the people of the ‘Renewed Britannia’. start learning		Located between N. America and Asia-> easy to make business with both parties
195. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘pardon’? start learning		Lower/middle-middle
196. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘wha’ start learning		working class
197. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘serviette’? start learning		Working class, lower/middle-middle
198. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘toilet’ start learning		Working class, lower/middle-middle
199. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘convenience’? start learning		Lower/middle-middle
200. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘lavatory’? start learning		Upper-middle class, upper class
201. Representatives of which class call the evening meal ‘tea’? start learning		Working class
202. Representatives of which class call the evening meal ‘supper’? start learning		Upper-middle class, upper class
203. Representatives of which class call their parents ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’? start learning		Upper-middle, upper class
204. Name a typical working class sport. start learning		Football
205. Name a typical middle class sport. start learning		Tennis
206. Name a typical upper class sport. start learning		Golf
207. Representatives of which class buy furniture in Marks and Spencer? start learning		Middle-middle class
208. Representatives of which class buy only underwear in Marks and Spencer? start learning		Middle class
209. ‘Matchy-matchy’ is typical of which class? start learning		Lower-middle, middle-middle
210. Spotless, car-washed car is typical of which class? start learning		Whole middle
211. ‘Nuffink’ [nothing] and ‘li’le’ [little] are typical pronunciations of which class? start learning		Working
212. ‘Ltl’ [little] and using ‘one’ instead of ‘I’ is typical of which class? start learning		Upper class
213. ‘Barthelona’ and ‘Ibitha’ pronunciations are typical of which class? start learning		Lower/middle-middle
214. To which class does Kate Middleton belong? start learning		Upper class
215. To which class does Hiacynth Bucket of Keeping Up Appearances belong to? start learning		Lower-middle
216. To which class does Stephen Fry belong to? start learning		Lower middle/working
217. Is contemporary art (or any art, for that matter) for everyone? start learning		No
218. The contemporary art can be summed up in two sentences. The first one is “I could do that!” What is the second one? start learning		Yes, but you didn’t.
219. Who is the author of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living? start learning		Damien Hirst
220. What is the name given to a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London, in 1988? The representatives of the group include Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. start learning		Young British Artists (YBA)
222. What is Antony Gormley’s piece entitled Bed (1980-1) made of? start learning		Bread and parafin wax on aluminium panel 224. Who is the director of the films Hunger, Shame, and more recently, 12 Years a Slave?
225. Name one Turner Prize winner. start learning		Elizabeth Price

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