brain test

1. Of whom do the British burn an effigy each year on November 5? 2. Name the 16th century English king who had six wives? 3. Which famous scientist sailed to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle? 4. Which film, with a soundtrack by Vangelis, takes its title from the William Blake poem beginning “And did those feet in ancient time”? 5. With which film would you associate the story of retrenched workers from Sheffield who become male strippers? 6. A “scouser” is someone from which British city? 7. What is typically cooked with Yorkshire pudding to make the English dish toad-in-the-hole? 8. Name the British physicist who theorised gravity, co-invented calculus and described three laws of force, inertia and mass? 9. Who played the role of Blackadder in the British comedy series of that name? 10. Which of the following artists is not British? A) Barbara Hepworth; B) Georgia O’Keeffe; C) John Constable; D) JMW Turner 11. What is the tallest mountain in Great Britain? 12. If a Scotsman talks of a “claymore”, to what is he referring? 13. William the Conqueror beat Harold II at which famous battle? 14. Which of the following ’80s groups is not British: A) The Boomtown Rats; B) Duran Duran; C) Bananarama; D) Eurythmics 15. What band takes its name from a British unemployment form? 16. Name the 19th century English naturalist whose influential work resulted in his name being given to species of courser, sandgrouse, starling, coucal and zebra? 17. Name the British figure-skating pair who won the World Championship Ice Dance competition for four years in the early ’80s, as well as the 1984 Olympic gold medal for ice dance? 18. Which British soccer team is based at St James’s Park? A) Everton; B) Fulham; C) Newcastle; D) Tottenham Hotspur 19. Which British author and television comedy writer wrote the book High Society ? 20. Name the English author and one-time South African resident whose works include The Barchester Chronicles and The Prime Minister ?