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United Kingdom and Ireland: Sample quiz questions
The first answer is the correct one in each case.
Which novelist wrote Cakes and Ale?
- Somerset Maugham
- Laurie Lee
- Dylan Thomas
- Compton Mackenzie
Who created Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint'?
- Leslie Charteris
- Peter Ellis
- John Le Carré
- Sidney Bernstein
Which English king died at the Battle of Bosworth?
- Richard III
- Harold
- Henry III
- George I
In which English county is Cheddar Gorge?
- Somerset
- Devon
- North Yorkshire
- Derbyshire
Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955?
- Hugh Gaitskell
- Aneurin Bevan
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Neil Kinnock
Who wrote the words 'Man's inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn!'?
- Robert Burns
- William Wordsworth
- William Blake
- James Hogg
Whose last words allegedly were 'Die, my dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!'?
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- Winston Churchill
- Edward VII
- Benjamin Disraeli
Which Scottish city is nicknamed 'Granite City'?
- Aberdeen
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Motherwell
Which historic English city shares its name with the state capital of Nebraska?
- Lincoln
- Exeter
- Winchester
- Bath
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