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KONKURS<br />
Brygida Gwiazda-Rzepecka<br />
Wrocław<br />
I Konkurs Wiedzy o Wielkiej Brytanii 1)<br />
Ö<br />
Etap szkolny<br />
I. Name numbered parts of the map. (11 points)<br />
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8 – . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
1 + 2 + 3 – . . . . . . . . .<br />
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 – . . . . . . . .<br />
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 –<br />
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II. Mark on the map and name the capital of each<br />
country. (10 points)<br />
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2 – . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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3 – . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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4 – . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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5 – . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
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III. Match the name with the proper date.<br />
(10 points)<br />
1. The Act of Supremacy – . . . A) 1588<br />
2. The Act of Union – . . . . . B) 1215<br />
3. The Armada – . . . . . . . . C) 1666<br />
4. Magna Carta – . . . . . . . . D) 21 October 1805<br />
5. The Golden Age – . . . . . . E) 1664-1665<br />
6. The Great Fire – . . . . . . . F) the mid-17th century<br />
7. The Battle of Trafalgar – . . G) 1534<br />
8. The Great Plague – . . . . . H) 6 June 1944<br />
9. The English Civil War – . . . I) 1707<br />
10. D-day – . . . . . . . . . . . J) from 1558 to 1603<br />
IV. Circle the correct answer. (10 points)<br />
1. King Edward VIII abdicated in ..... to marry<br />
an American divorcee, Mrs Wallis Simpson.<br />
a) 1936 b) 1972 c) 1938 d) 1949<br />
2. The British Empire was at its greatest in<br />
about 1920, when it included approximately<br />
..... of the world’s population.<br />
a) 20% b) 15% c) 50% d) 25%<br />
3. The Commonwealth is the free association<br />
of ..... countries that were mostly at one<br />
time part of the British Empire.<br />
a) 70 b) 50 c) 100 d) 20<br />
4. The Glencoe Massacre took place in 1692<br />
in a valley in ..... .<br />
a) west Scotland b) East Anglia c) Lake District<br />
d) Ireland<br />
5. The Bloody Tower is the tower in ..... built<br />
in the 14 th century.<br />
a) the Edinburgh Castle b) the Tower of London<br />
c) the White Tower d) Belfast<br />
6. The records of a survey of land of England<br />
made by order of William the Conqueror<br />
in .... is called the Domesday Book.<br />
a) 1080 b) 1280 c) 1286 d) 1086<br />
7. The special throne called Coronation Chair<br />
on which the sovereign sits during the Coronation<br />
ceremony is in ..... .<br />
a) Buckingham Palace b) Westminster Abbey<br />
c) St Paul’s d) the Tower of London<br />
8. Armistice Day is on ..... .<br />
a) 06/06/1944 b) 05/11/1605 c) 11/11/1918<br />
d) 15/09/1940<br />
9. Anne Hathaway’s Cottage is the old house<br />
near ..... in which Shakespeare’s wife was<br />
born.<br />
a) London b) Oxford c) Cardiff<br />
d) Stratford-upon-Avon<br />
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Sprawozdanie z konkursu jest zamieszczone na s. 108 (red).<br />
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