Quiz "Famous British people".

Can you recognize these famous English people? (Write their name and occupation)

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QUIZ

First do the quiz and then write the letter of the correct answer to the corresponding numbers in the crossword

1. Who was the longest serving British monarch?

b) Queen Elizabeth I

f) Queen Victoria

n) Queen Mary

2. Who wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’?

a) Charlotte Bronte

o) Emily Bronte

i) Anne Bronte

3. Who is the founder of the Theory of Evolution?

s) Charles Darwin

g) Isaac Newton

p) George Stevenson

4. Which of the following bands is not British?

j) The Rolling Stones

k) Pink Floyd

l) U2

5. Which of the following actors is not a Sir?

c) Charlie Chaplin

x) Peter Ustinov

b) Roger Moore

6. What did Isaac Newton discover?

e) the Theory of Relativity

a) the Law of Gravitation

u) the phenomenon of electromagnetism

7. Who wrote the ‘Lord of the Rings’?

h) J.R.R. Tolkien

v) J.K. Rowling

m) Lewis Carroll

8. Which actress played in ‘The Pirates of the Carribean’?

y) Cameron Diaz

z) Gwyneth Paltrow
w) Keira Knightley

9. Which of the following actors has not played the role of ‘James Bond’?

g) Roger Moore

q) Michael Caine

p) Daniel Craig

10. What was Florence Nightingale’s profession?

d) a doctor

m) a teacher

r) a nurse

11. Who is the ‘father’ of ‘Sherlock Holmes’?

d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

c) Agatha Christie

f) George Orwell

12. In which sport was Bobby Moore famous?

g) soccer

j) cricket

l) tennis

13. Who was the first to contact the Australian Aborigines?

i) Francis Drake

e) James Cook

w) Sir Walter Raleigh

14. In what age was Queen Elizabeth II crowned?

m) 25

n) 27

t) 30

15. Who said ‘To be or not to be’?

u) Lord Byron

o) Charles Dickens

y) William Shakespeare

16. Who is said to be a non-historical figure?

x) Robin Hood

c) King Arthur

h) Jack the Ripper

17. Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize of

r) medicine

a) peace

i) literature

18. How many of his wives did Henry VIII have executed?

k) 1

c) 2

p) 3

19. When did Prince Charles marry Diana?

z) 1980

j) 1981

q) 1982

20. When was John Lennon murdered?

m) 1980

n) 1985

s) 1978

21. Alexander Fleming received a Nobel Prize for discovering

t) the penicillin

p) the radio

u) the telephone

22. What was Mary Shelley to Percy Byshe Shelley?

v) his sister

u) his daughter

z) his wife

23. Who is known as ‘Mr Bean’?

g) Ben Kingsley

p) Rowan Atkinson

n) Colin Firth

24. Who starred in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?

u) Audrey Hepburn

v) Elizabeth Taylor

b) Julie Andrews

25. Who entered the Guinness Book for selling more than 1.6 million tickets in one day?

k) Elton John

d) David Bowie

v) Robbie Williams

26. Which team did David Beckam use to play for?

k) Manchester United

l) Liverpool

a) Aberdeen