• Which important event took place on 4 July 1776?

  Ans :  Declaration of American Independence

• Where was Robert Burns born?

  Ans :  Alloway

• When did George Meredith die?

  Ans :  18-05-1909 12:00:00 AM

• Where was Jane Grey born?

  Ans :  Bradgate

• Where did William Somerset Maugham buy a villa in 1928?

  Ans :  Cape Ferrat

• What did Robert Hooke name the microscopic honeycomb cavities found in cork?

  Ans :  Cells

• Which city in Asia was part of the dowry given to Charles II?

  Ans :  Bombay

• Who was the first monarch consecrated in Westminster Abbey?

  Ans :  William the Conqueror

• When did George V die?

  Ans :  20-01-1936 12:00:00 AM

• When was The Colour of Magic published?

  Ans :  1983

• 1Who crowns the monarch of United Kingdom?

  Ans :  Archbishop of Canterbury

• When did James Black get Nobel Prize for Medicine?

  Ans :  1988

• Who was Catherine of Braganza’s mother?

  Ans :  Luisa of Guzman

• When was Clement Attlee born?

  Ans :  3 January 1883

• Which Ruth Rendell novel won Dagger of Daggers?

  Ans :  A Fatal Inversion

• Which ship did James Cook command in 1763-1768?

  Ans :  Grenville

• Which honour did John Boynton Priestley accept in 1977?

  Ans :  Order of Merit

• Which constituency elected Oliver Cromwell to Parliament in 1640?

  Ans :  Cambridge

• Who was Catherine Parr’s father?

  Ans :  Thomas Parr

• When was John Scott Haldane born?

  Ans :  2 May 1860

• Which constituency did Robert Clive represent in Parliament?

  Ans :  Shrewsbury

• When was John Boyd Orr director general of Food and Agriculture Organization?

  Ans :  1945-1948

• When was Edward IV crowned king of England?

  Ans :  28 June 1461

• Which school did Henry Rider Haggard attend?

  Ans :  Ipswich Grammar School

• What was Robert Clive’s designation when he joined East India Company?

  Ans :  Writer

• What was created by Statute of Westminster 1931?

  Ans :  British Commonwealth of Nations

• When was Michael Faraday born?

  Ans :  22 September 1791

• Jane Seymour was engaged to Henry VIII on 20 May 153Who was beheaded the previous day?

  Ans :  Anne Boleyn

• By how many years William Shakespeare‘s wife was older to William Shakespeare?

  Ans :  Eight

• Who persuaded George III to end his relationship with Sarah Lennox and marry Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz?

  Ans :  John Stuart

• When was Almayer’s Folly published?

  Ans :  1895

• Where did Robert Hooke die?

  Ans :  London

• When was Edwin Lutyens born?

  Ans :  28 March 1869

• Where was Christopher Lee born?

  Ans :  London

• Whom did Wallis Warfield marry in 1928?

  Ans :  Ernest Simpson

• George was the name of patron saint of England. What was Orwell?

  Ans :  Name of a river

• When was Charles John Canning born?

  Ans :  14 December 1812

• When did Siegfried Sassoon die?

  Ans :  01-09-1967 12:00:00 AM

• In which of the following films Christopher Lee played the title role?

  Ans :  Jinnah

• Who was a KGB agent, held an important position in MI6 and defected to USSR in 1963?

  Ans :  Kim Philby

• What did Henry Cavendish produce by dissolving alkalis in acids?

  Ans :  Carbon dioxide

• When was Richard Burdon Haldane born?

  Ans :  30 July 1856

• When was Henry Rider Haggard in South Africa?

  Ans :  1875-1882

• When did Neville Chamberlain die?

  Ans :  09-11-1940 12:00:00 AM

• Which university did James Black attend?

  Ans :  St. Andrews

• When did Archibald Joseph Cronin write The Citadel?

  Ans :  1937

• What did Gilbert Keith Chesterton study at Slade School?

  Ans :  Art

• Who forced Mary (Tudor) to be lady-in-waiting to infant Elizabeth?

  Ans :  Anne Boleyn

• When did John Scott Haldane die?

  Ans :  14/15 March 1936

• When did Edward VII become king of UK?

  Ans :  22-01-1901 12:00:00 AM