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3. These are considered to be the “nationalities” of the United Kingdom

4. What are English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish?

5. This is generally considered to be the most noticeable and significant cleavage in Britain

6. What is social class?

7. Britain’s sense of insularity usually refers to their feeling of separation from this

8. What is Europe?

9. This term refers to the upper class’s willingness to fund the welfare state through progressive taxation

10. What is noblesse oblige?

11. This country is the original homeland of the largest segment of British ethnic minorities

12. What is India?

13. These are the names of the 2 houses parliament in Britain

14. What are the House of Commons and the House of Lords?

15. Cabinet ministers often make policy recommendations based on input from this

16. What is the bureaucracy?

17. This is the number of seats in Commons

18. What is 646?

19. The policy of devolution created these institutions

20. What are regional parliaments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?

21. This concept explains why courts rarely invoke any form of judicial review

22. What is parliamentary sovereignty?

23. This Conservative prime minister made a “U-Turn” in his economic policies

24. Who is Ted Heath?

25. This event led to the passage of the English Bill of Rights which created a stronger parliament

26. What is the Glorious Revolution?

27. Political pressures during the Industrial Revolution led to the expansion of this to working class males

28. What are voting rights?

29. These are two policies that were enacted during the Collectivist Consensus

30. What are the NHS, unemployment benefits, pensions, payment of tuition

31. This Conservative prime minister succeeded Margaret Thatcher

32. Who is John Major?

33. Most projections have this man taking over as Britain’s next prime minister

34. Who is David Cameron?

35. Britain has yet to join this institution which would make the Euro their official currency

36. What is the European Monetary Union?

37. While terrorism now focuses on combatting al-Qaeda, it used to focus on

38. Who is the IRA?

39. Britain recently added a Supreme Court to replace this institution

40. Who are the Law Lords?

41. Nearly all political elites in Britain are recruited from these two schools

42. What are Oxford and Cambridge?

43. This British prime minister moved economic policy to the right from 1979 to 1991

44. Who is Margaret Thatcher?

45. States which centralize power at the national level with little significant power reserved for local governments are called this

46. What is a unitary state?

47. This General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party was the first to begin instituting market reforms

48. Who is Deng Xiaoping?

49. This is the capital of Nigeria

50. What is Abuja?

51. This is the current Supreme Leader of Iran

52. Who is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?