Quiz answers

Hope you enjoyed the quiz and found out something new about England and its culture.

Here are the correst answers to the quiz questions:

1.

1. David Cameron  - Prime Minister

2. Nick Clegg – deputy PM, the leader of the Liberal Democrats

3. George Osborne – Chancellor of Exchequer

4 . John Bercow  - speaker of the House of Commons

5.  Frances Claire D’Souza (Baroness D’Souza ) – speaker of the House of Lords

6. Rowan Williams – Archbishop of  Canterbury

7. Ed Miliband  - leader of the Labour Party

2. 650 and 533

3. England 53 million, London  8,174,100 , population density 3rd place in the EU

4.  England 82,8%,    London  57,7%

5.1258 Provisions of Oxford

    1362  King Edward spoke English in Parliament

    1384  Chaucer „Canterbury Tales”

6. Meryl Streep  BAFTA award for  „The Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher

7.
     *  ” Romeo and Juliet”  - In the opening scene Samson and Gregory are trash-talking about what they’ll do to Montagues if they got the chance. „I’ll be civil with the maids I’ll cut off their heads (maidenheads)” the sentence indicates that forcible rape is intended. Nowadays it is not funny especially if we know about deliberate use of rape as a tool of genocide in Africa.

     * „Othello” -  Othello is a black beast, Desdemona debases herself with him.

     * „The Taming of the Shrew” - teaching submission to a woman.

     * „The Merchant of Venice” - Shylock is a Jew – Avaricious Jew Shylock embodies many antisemitic prejudices and at the end of the play Shylock is forced to „convert” to Christianity.

8. 

• „Remains of the Day” by K. Ishiguro 1989
• „Hotel du Lac”  by Anita Brookner  1984
• „Last Orders” by G. Swift  1996
• „ Possession” by A.S. Byatt  1990

9.
   1. David Farren
   2. Chris Forsey
   3. Michael Kidd
   4. Alan Tyers

10.

    1. St Paul’s Cathedral

    2.  Downing Street 10 - the PM’s official residence and
         the headquarters of the government
    3. Statue of Richard the Lionheart
    4. Globe Theatre
    5. The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace
    6. Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square
    7. Radcliffe Camera in Oxford  houses the Radcliffe Science
        Library

Hope to see you next year!