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two interuptions

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?

The Empire Strikes Back

3. What disease does Stuart Hall refer to in his article on Cultural Studies?

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?

T.S. Eliot

5. What is the name of the three-wheeled vehicle for “the economically challenged” that Hobbs mentions?

Reliant Robin

6. What is the term for the reduction or removal of Parliamentary rule by Westminster over Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

The Sewel Convention

7. What is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the UK?

Palace of Westminster

8. What is the name of the lower house of the Parliament of the UK?

House of Commons

9. What is the name of the upper house of the Parliament of the UK?

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’?

Keywords

11. What does Raymond Williams compare culture to in his book Culture and Society?

A way of life

title of Matthew Arnold’s famous work

Culture and Anarchy

13. How does Matthew Arnold refer to the middle class?

Philistines

14. According to Roland Barthes, what can ideology be equalled with?

Mythmaking

15. What is Barthes’s most celebrated example of myth making?

A photo of a black soldier saluting a French flag

16. Give one of the many names the Cultural Studies is called.

Area studies

17. What structure of unknown purpose was built any time from 3000 BC to 2000 BC on Salisbury Plain?

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?

Hadrian’s Wall

19. Who was the only monarch in English history to be given the title of ‘Great’

Alfred The Great

20. What famous battle happened in 1066?

Hastings

21. What was the name of the king who died in the Battle of Hastings?

Harold II (Harold Godwinson)

22. What was the name of the Norman leader who was crowned the king of England in 1066?

William the Conqueror

23. What was the name of the three-decade conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York?

War of The Roses (1455 – 1487)

24. What flower symbolised the House of York?

White Rose

25. What flower symbolised the House of Lancaster?

Red Rose

26. What was the name of the monarch who established the Church of England? Henry VIII

26 What was the name of the monarch who established the Church of England? Henry VIII

27. How many wives did Henry VIII have?

Six

28. Name one of Henry VIII’s wives. Anne Boleyn

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?

Mary I / Elizabeth I

30. What was the term Elizabeth I was referred to (in connection with her purity)?

The Virgin Queen

31. What was the name of Elizabeth’s half-sister who was famous for her religious ardour?

Mary I

32. Who was referred to as the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth?

Oliver Cromwell

33. What event that effectively ended the epidemic of bubonic plague happened in 1666?

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?

Act of Union 1707

35. Who was the longest reigning monarch in British history?

Queen Victoria

36. What was Victoria’s husband’s name?

Prince Albert

37. Who wrote the play Look Back in Anger (1955)

John Osborne

38. Which media corporation proved to be a cultural pioneer from the 1940s onwards?

BBC

39. What event took place in 1951 to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition?

Festival of Britain

40. Name one of the changes introduced by the Clement Atlee cabinet between 1945 and 1951.

Nationalization of industry

41. Name one of the countries that were granted self-governments by the Atlee government.

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)?

Roy Jenkins

43. What happened in the Queen’s life in 1977?

Silver Jubilee

44. What is the title of the Sex Pistols song that mocks the Queen and refers to very dark future?

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?

Bloody Sunday

46. Name one artist whose song was inspired by the 1972 Derry shooting.

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?

The Troubles

48. What is the name of the Irish revolutionary military organisation established after the Easter Rising of 1916?

IRA

49. Who was referred to as the Iron Lady?

Margaret Tatcher

50. What was the name of the military conflict of 1982 between the UK and Argentina?

Falklands War

51. What is the name of the national health care organisation in the UK?

NHS

52. Name one of the significant events in British history or politics that happened in 1997.

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?

Yuppie

54. Who was the British Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher?

John Major

55. Who was the British Prime Minister after Tony Blair?

Gordon Brown

56. What is the address of every British Prime Minister?

10 Downing Street

57. Who is the incumbent British Prime Minister?

David Cameron

58. Who is the incumbent British Prime Minister’s deputy?

Nick Clegg

59. What is the name of the political party that is currently in the opposition in the UK?

Labour Party

60. Who is the incumbent First Minister of Scotland?

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?

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?

UK Trident programme

63. What is the name of the first in line to the British throne?

Prince Charles

64. What is the name of Prince Charles’s wife?

Camilla Rosemary

65. What is the name of Elizabeth II’s husband?

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

66. What is the title that was granted to Kate Middleton upon her marriage to Prince William?

Duchess of Cambridge

67. What is the capital of Wales?

Cardiff

68. What is the capital of Northern Ireland?

Belfast

69. What is the capital of The Republic of Ireland?

Dublin

70. What is the capital of Scotland?

Edinburgh

71. What is the Irish name of Ireland?

Éire

72. What is the name of British currency?

Pound sterling

73. What is the early Greek and Roman name for Great Britain that refers to white cliffs of Dover?

Albion

74. What is the name the Romans gave to their southern British province and the female embodiment of Britain?

Britannia

75. What is the name of the fictional character who is supposed to personify Englishness?

John Bull

76. What was the Roman name for Scotland?

Caledonia

77. What was the Roman name for Wales?

Cambria

78. What was the Roman name for Ireland?

Hibernia

79. What is the flag of England?

St George's Cross

80. What is the flag of Wales?

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

Saint Andrew's Cross

82. What is the flag of Ireland?

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?

Irish tricolour – is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white, and orange.

84. What is the national plant of England?

rose

85. What are the national plants of Wales?

Daffodil, leek

86. What is the national plant of Scotland?

thistle

87. What is the national plant of Ireland?

shamrock

88. What is the national colour of England?

White and red

89. What is the national colour of Wales?

red

90. What is the national colour of Scotland?

Blue and white

91. What is the national colour of Ireland?

Blue and green

92. Who is the patron saint of England?

Saint George

93. Who is the patron saint of Wales?

Saint David

94. Who is the patron saint of Scotland?

Saint Andrew

95. Who is the patron saint of Ireland?

Saint Patrick

96. Who is the head of English Church?

Elizabeth II

97. The names with the prefices ‘Mac’ and ‘O’ are traditional for which country?

Ireland

98. What is the Scottish version of the name ‘John’?

Ian

99. What is the Iris version of the name ‘John’?

Sean

100. According to the 2006 poll, what is the estimated UK total population?

60 406 000

101. What is the name of the British flag?

Union Jack

102. What do Scottish people celebrate of the 25 January?

Burns supper

103. What is the name of the traditional Scottish dish made from sheep’s heart, lungs and liver?

haggis

104. What is the name of the traditional Scottish musical instrument incorrectly translated into Polish as ‘kobza’?

Bag pipes

105. What is the name of the Welsh national hero who established an independent Wales with its own parliament?

Owain Glyndŵr

106. Which breed of dog is customarily associated with the English?

British bulldog

107. What is the name of the most popular annual street festival in Europe?

Notting Hill Carnival

108. Who is the author of the steel sculpture The Angel of the North?

Antony Gormley

109. What is the name used to describe a strong London accent whose notable feature is rhyming slang?

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?

Pragmatics

111. What is the name of the approach to studying culture which underlies the general rules and codes operating in any given culture

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?

Deconstruction

113. What is the title of the emblematic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling?

"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?

Imperialism

115. What is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?

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?

Post-colonialism?

117. Name one of the novels in which India intrudes, according to C.C. Eldridge.

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.

Loss of American colonies

119. What is the economic theory and practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

Things Fall Apart

124. Which author does Achebe call “a thoroughgoing racist”?

Joseph Conrad

125. Which famous late 13th century traveller does Achebe mention in his essay?

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?

The Great Wall of China

127. Which island in the West Indies was part of Sir Thomas’s property in Jane Austen Mansfield Park?

Antigua

128. According to Edward Said, did John Stuart Mill support India’s independence?

“he always recommended that India not be given independence”

129. Who is the author of White Teeth?

Zadie Smith

130. Name one of the major themes of the novel.

racism

131. What is Samad’s surname? Iqbal

131 What is Samad's surname? Iqbal

132. What is Samad’s best friend’s name?

Archie

133. What is the name of Archie’s pen pal?

Horst Ibelgaufts

134. What does ‘Irie’ mean in Jamaican?

Ok, cool, peace

135. What is the nickname Alsana gives to Neena?

Niece of Shame

136. Who is Irie’s daughter’s father?

Either Millat or Magid

137. What is the acronymic name of the animal activist group Joshua joins?

FATE

138. What is Millat’s brother name?

Magid

139. Which of the twins is sent away?

Magid

140. What is the acronymic name of the Islamic group Millat belongs to?

KEVIN

141. What is the characteristic symptom of Dr Sick’s disease?

Crying with blood

142. What is the name of the project Marcus works on?

Future Mouse

143. What is Samad’s job?

He is a waiter

144. What is the name of the pub Archie frequents?

O'Connell's

145. What does Magit order in his father’s favourite pub?

Bacon sandwich

146. What is the name of Samad’s great grandfather?

Mangal Pande

147. During what natural phenomenon was Hortense born?

Earthquake

148. What is the name of Samad’s English mistress?

Poppy Burt-Jones

149. What crucial body part does Clara miss?

Upper teeth

150. How does Archie solve any dilemma?

Flipping a coin

151. What means of transport does Ryan Topps use?

Scooter

152. What is Irie’s grandmother’s religion?

Jehovah's Witness

153. What is Marcus’s wife’s name?

Joyce Chalfen

154. What is Irie’s job at the Chalfens’ She is studying there

154 What is Irie's job at the Chalfens' She is studying there

155. What is Alsana’s job?

She sews clothing

156. How does Alsana punish her husband after he sends one of the twins away?

She is not talking to him at all

157. What war do Samad and Archie fight in?

World War II

158. What happens to Irie at the hairdresser’s?

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?

Four sons

160. What is Archie’s first wife’s name?

Ophelia Diagilo

161. What is the phrase used to refer to African hair that some people see as “as bad and the N-word”?

Good hair

162. Who are the two main villains in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four?

Jonathan Small & Tonga

163. What drug is Holmes injecting himself with at the beginning of the novel?

Cocaine

164. Name one of the expressions connected with The Sign of the Four which have double meaning.

By injecting himself with cocaine he released sexual tension (sublimation)

165. What are the names of the Sholto brothers?

Thaddeus & Bartholomew

166. What is the name of the house in which one of the brothers is found dead?

Pondicherry Lodge

167. What is the preferred murder weapon of Tonga?

Poison darts

168. Where is Tonga from?

Andaman Islands

169. What is Tonga’s particular feeding habit?

Eating raw meat

170. How did Jonathan Small lose his leg?

It was bitten off by a crocodile

171. Name one of the eponymous four.

Jonathan Small

172. Which historical event of 1857 is mentioned by Small?

The Indian Rebellion of 1857

173. What was the name given by Holmes to a horde of homeless children that “invaded” his lodgings?

The Baker Street irregulars

174. What was the first name of Miss Morstan?

Mary

175. What is the name of the dog Holmes and Watson use to trace the killers?

Toby

176. What was the name of the launch Small hired?

The Aurora

177. Which part of the treasure does Miss Morstan receive?

The Chaplet

178. Who does Holmes dress like in order to trace Small?

An old sailor

179. How does Tonga die?

Tonga was fatally shot by Watson

180. To which animal is Holmes customarily compared?

A dog

181. How would George Bernard Shaw spell ‘fish’?

Ghoti

182. Give an example of linguistic cock-ups in English as mentioned by Harry Bingham.

hiccough

183. How many spellings were there of the word ‘she’ in the 14th and 15th century?

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?

the Masters of Chancery

185. Give an example of an English word that possesses a silent letter because of a false Latin etymological connection.

Debt

186. Give an example of an English word that possesses a silent letter because of Greek etymological origin.

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

Great Vowel Shift

188. How many ways are there to create the sh sound in English?

Thirteen

189. What was the name of the winner of the Shaw’s prize awarded to the creator of a new English alphabet?

Kinsley Read

190. Which English adjectives have two variations based on gender?

Blond, blonde

191. Which ruler is connected with lack of inflection in English?

William the Conqueror

192. Roughly how many new words enter the English language each year?

3000

193. What one name denotes something absolutely top-notch, canine testicles and this symbol “:—“?

Bollocks

194. Name one of the six assets of the people of the ‘Renewed Britannia’.

Located between N. America and Asia-> easy to make business with both parties

195. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘pardon’?

Lower/middle-middle

196. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘wha’

working class

197. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘serviette’?

Working class, lower/middle-middle

198. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘toilet’

Working class, lower/middle-middle

199. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘convenience’?

Lower/middle-middle

200. Representatives of which class use the expression ‘lavatory’?

Upper-middle class, upper class

201. Representatives of which class call the evening meal ‘tea’?

Working class

202. Representatives of which class call the evening meal ‘supper’?

Upper-middle class, upper class

203. Representatives of which class call their parents ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’?

Upper-middle, upper class

204. Name a typical working class sport.

Football

205. Name a typical middle class sport.

Tennis

206. Name a typical upper class sport.

Golf

207. Representatives of which class buy furniture in Marks and Spencer?

Middle-middle class

208. Representatives of which class buy only underwear in Marks and Spencer?

Middle class

209. ‘Matchy-matchy’ is typical of which class?

Lower-middle, middle-middle

210. Spotless, car-washed car is typical of which class?

Whole middle

211. ‘Nuffink’ [nothing] and ‘li’le’ [little] are typical pronunciations of which class?

Working

212. ‘Ltl’ [little] and using ‘one’ instead of ‘I’ is typical of which class?

Upper class

213. ‘Barthelona’ and ‘Ibitha’ pronunciations are typical of which class?

Lower/middle-middle

214. To which class does Kate Middleton belong?

Upper class

215. To which class does Hiacynth Bucket of Keeping Up Appearances belong to?

Lower-middle

216. To which class does Stephen Fry belong to?

Lower middle/working

217. Is contemporary art (or any art, for that matter) for everyone?

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?

Yes, but you didn’t.

219. Who is the author of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living?

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.

Young British Artists (YBA)

222. What is Antony Gormley’s piece entitled Bed (1980-1) made of?

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.

Elizabeth Price