Multiple Choice Quiz - United Kingdom - No 2
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (to give its full name) refers to the political union between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The UK is a sovereign state, but the nations that make it up are also countries in their own right
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Q 1)   How is the Sunday market in London's Middlesex Street better known?  

   A)   Brick Lane Market
   B)   Camden Market
   C)   Petticoat Lane;
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Option C:-  Petticoat Lane.
Petticoat Lane Market was not formally recognised until an Act of Parliament in 1936, but its long history as an informal market makes it possibly one of the oldest surviving markets in Britain.
Q 2)  Which town north-west of Wells on the edge of the Mendip Hills gave its name to a famous cheese?

   A)   Cheddar
   B)   Cheshire
   C)   Coverdale
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Option A:-  Cheddar
Cheddar cheese is a relatively hard, off-white, sometimes sharp-tasting, natural cheese.
Q 3:-  Clovelly, with its famous cobbled high street, is in which county?   
   
   A)   Cornwall
   B)   Devon
   C)   Dorset
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Option B:-  Devon
   
Q 4:-  The city of Bath lies along which river?

   A)   River Avon
   B)   River Dart
   C)   River Severn
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Option A:-  River Avon
The Roman remains, especially the Temple of Sulis Minerva and the baths complex have remained at the heart of the City.
Q 5:-  In which city was Charles Dickens born?

   A)   Plymouth
   B)   Portsmouth
   C)   Salisbury 

 
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Option B:-  Portsmouth

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), the second of eight children of Elizabeth and John Dickens..
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House where he was born
Q 6:-   Great Ormond Street Hospital, off Russell Square, owns the copyright to what book?  The author gifted the rights to the hospital in 1929

   A)   Winnie the Poo
   B)   The Secret Garden
   C)   Peter Pan
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Option C:-  Peter Pan
JM Barrie (The author) was approached to take part in a Great Ormond Street Hospital committee to buy land for a badly needed new medical wing. Two months later, the hospital board discovered that the Scottish author had given over all rights to Peter Pan for Great Ormond Street’s use, so beginning the long association of the work with London’s most renowned children’s hospital.
Q 7:-  On which street is Selfridges in London?  

   A)   Oxford Street
   B)   Carnaby Street
   C)   Regent Street
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Option A:-  Oxford Street
Q 8:- What is the highest mountain in England?  
 
   A)   Sca Fell
   B)   Great Gable
   C)   Scafell Pike 
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Option C:-  Scafell Pike
79m higher than Great Gable
Q9:- The first traffic signal was invented by J P Knight, a railway signalling engineer. It was installed outside  {Where ?} in 1868. 

   A)   The houses of Parliament in London.
   B)   City Hall in Dublin
​   C)   Buckingham Palace
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Option A:-  Houses of Parliament
Unfortunately it exploded, killing a policeman.
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Q 10:- Aquae Sulis is the Roman name for which modern city?

   A)   Bathgate
   B)   Washington
   C)   Bath
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Option C:-  Bath

Q 11:- Which city in the UK is known as the Granite City? 

   A)   Aberchalder
   B)   Stonehaven
   C)   Aberdeen
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Option C:-  Aberdeen
Granite is one of the principal materials used in the architecture of Aberdeen, to the extent that it has become known as "The Granite City"
Q 12:-  Who wrote, 'when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'?? 

   A)   Samuel Johnson
   B)   Charles Dickens
   C)   William Shakespear
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Option A:-  Samuel Johnson

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