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1) Christians who believe that Pope is the head of Church, major opponents of which were Protestants, esp. in the 16thc. a) Evangelicals b) Catholics c) Lutherans 2) One of the tribes coming to England in the 5thc., later formed the kingdoms Essex, Sussex and Wessex. a) Angles b) Saxons c) Jutes 3) Head of the Protectorate in 1640-1660, the only period when England was a republic. a) James Stuart b) Robert Dudley c) Oliver Cromwell
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4) Elizabeth’s I. stepsister and preceding queen, being nicknamed “bloody” due to her Catholic hatred towards Protestants. a) Mary b) Jane c) Anne 5) William of Normandy, after winning the battle of Hastings in 1066, got a nickname William the..... a) Fearless b) Conqueror c) Lion Heart 6) A Roman emperor after whom a wall built as a protection against the Picts from the north was named. a) Claudius b) Caesar c) Hadrian
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7) The surname of the most admired Scottish hero, fighting for independence of Scotland at the end of the 13 th c. a) Wallace b) Bruce c) McDonald 8) The most famous work of the Anglo-Saxon literature, originally a story coming from Scandinavia, written probably in the 7 th century. a) King Arthur b) Conan the Barbarian c) Beowulf 9) Celtic poets were called: a) bards b) druids c) lunatics
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10) The surname of the famous admiral fighting against Napoleon (18/19th c). a) Churchill b) Sherman c) Nelson 11) The royal Scottish family, ruling England after Elizabeth I died without an heir, due to which the unification of England and Scotland took place. a) Stuarts b) Plantagenets c) Windsor 12) The British conservative female Prime Minister in 1970s, supporting private enterprise. a) Thatcher b) Merkel c) Albright
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml http://britannia.com/history/time1.html http://projectbritain.com/history.html
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