Q 01/05

Which is England's largest offshore island?

A) Hayling Island

B) The Isle of Wight

C) The Isle of Sheppey

D) Lindisfarne

Answer · why

B) The Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, and Queen Victoria died there in 1901 at Osborne House, her seaside retreat.

Q 02/05

England's name comes from which tribe?

A) The Saxons

B) The Jutes

C) The Angles

D) The Frisians

Answer · why

C) The Angles

They came from Angeln in today's Schleswig-Holstein; 'Englaland' means 'land of the Angles'.

Q 03/05

At the 2021 census, England's 56.5 million people outnumbered the population of which country?

A) Brazil

B) Canada

C) Italy

D) Japan

Answer · why

B) Canada

Canada's own 2021 census counted about 37 million people, though Canada covers more than 70 times England's area.

Q 04/05

The Acts of Union of 1707 merged the Kingdom of England with which other kingdom?

A) Ireland

B) Wales

C) Scotland

D) Hanover

Answer · why

C) Scotland

Scotland accepted partly because its failed Darien colony in Panama had swallowed about a fifth of the nation's wealth, and the treaty paid compensati...

Q 05/05

Which is the oldest university in the English-speaking world?

A) Cambridge

B) Oxford

C) St Andrews

D) Durham

Answer · why

B) Oxford

Oxford has no known founding date, though there is evidence of teaching there by 1096; Cambridge began in 1209 when scholars fled Oxford after clashes...