Q 01/05

England covers roughly what share of the island of Great Britain?

A) 68%

B) 75%

C) 62%

D) 88%

Answer · why

C) 62%

It also includes more than 100 smaller adjacent islands, among them the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly.

Q 02/05

England's name comes from which Germanic 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

What was England's population at the 2021 census?

A) About 56.5 million

B) About 48 million

C) About 63 million

D) About 70 million

Answer · why

A) About 56.5 million

That is 84 percent of the United Kingdom's total, with nine million in its largest city alone.

Q 04/05

On what date did the Kingdom of England cease to be a separate sovereign state?

A) 24 March 1603

B) 1 January 1801

C) 29 May 1660

D) 1 May 1707

Answer · why

D) 1 May 1707

The Acts of Union merged it with Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain; there has been no English government since.

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

It dates to 1096; Cambridge followed in 1209.