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- 2. Why is the Westminster Palace
clock called „Big Ben‟?
After Sir Benjamin Hall, a large man
who was the chief commissioner in
1859.
- 3. In the 16th century King Henry VIII
hunted wild animals in this park.
Hyde Park
- 7. What group is responsible for the
so-called “pop revolution” in the
West?
The Beatles.
- 13. Who set up the first English
printing-press in Westminster?
William Caxton.
- 14. What is the largest museum in
G.B.?
The British Museum.
- 15. What book did Herbert Wells
choose to send to Leo Tolstoy?
The War of the Worlds”.
- 16. What are the principal characters
of Bernard Shaw‟s play
“Pygmalion?
Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins.
- 18. Who is the main hero of Rudyard
Kipling‟s “The Jungle Book”?
Mowgli.
- 19. Who is called by the British people
“Our National Bard”, “The Bard of
Avon”?
William Shakespeare.
- 20. What is the masterpiece of William
Makepeace Thackeray?
“Vanity Fair”.
- 21. Who was the greatest satirist of
the age of Enlightenment?
Jonathan Swift
- 22. What is the first of
Shakespeare‟s great tragedies?
“Romeo and Juliet”.
- 23. Who is the first English
humanist of the Renaissance?
Thomas More.
- 24. Who is the most popular hero of
the English ballads?
Robin Hood.
- 26. What was the first record or
register of all land-holdings called?
The Domesday Book.
- 27. What king was put on trial, found
guilty and executed?
Charles I.
- 28. What is the 1605 conspiracy to
blow up Parliament at the opening
session called?
The Gunpowder Plot.
- 33. Where was the battle fought in
which the Normans won?
Near the town of Hastings.