| Can you name... |
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Three novels by Charles Dickens? |
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Bleak House, Hard Times, The Workhouse |
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The Old Curiosity Shop, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit |
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Great Expectations, Vanity Fair, Our Mutual Friend |
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Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Daniel Deronda |
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Three tragedies by Shakespeare? |
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Timon of Athens, Hamlet, Coriolanus |
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Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Twelfth Night |
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Tamburlaine the Great, Othello, Macbeth |
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Romeo and Juliet, Duchess of Malfi, King Lear |
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John Milton's most famous poem? |
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Paradise Lost |
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Pilgrim's Progress |
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Divine Comedy |
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The Wasteland |
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| What were / are the following individuals best known for? |
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Sigmund Freud |
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Psychology |
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Modern art |
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Public relations |
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Cooking |
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Lucian Freud |
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Psychology |
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Public relations |
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Modern art |
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Cooking |
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Matthew Freud |
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Modern art |
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Psychology |
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Public relations |
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Cooking |
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| Which four are... |
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British prime ministers between 1900 and 1945? |
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Herbert Asquith, Robert Cecil, Winston Churchill, Bonar Law |
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Alec Baldwin, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, Sir Douglas Haig |
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Stanley Baldwin, Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, William Gladstone |
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Neville Chamberlain, Ramsay Macdonald, William McKinley, Arthur Ponsonby |
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Characters from Big Brother? |
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Anna, Caroline, Craig, Damien |
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Andrew, Darren, Nicholas, Sandra |
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Craig, Davina, Mel, Tom |
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Andrew, Anna, Claire, Nichola |
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| What were the following individuals best known for? |
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Douglas Bader |
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Terrorism in 1970s Germany |
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Writing poetry during the first world war |
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Founding the Boy Scouts |
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Being a pilot |
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Oliver Cromwell |
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Adviser to Henry VIII, key player in the Reformation |
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Leader of the Roundheads during the English civil war |
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Member of plot to blow up House of Commons |
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Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in the cathedral |
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David Livingstone |
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Exploring Africa |
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Failing to reach the South Pole |
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Being mayor of London |
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Discovering the North West Passage |
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Tom Paine |
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Writing Bonfire of the Vanities |
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Writing Utopia |
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Writing Arcadia |
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Writing The Rights of Man |
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| What do you most closely associate with...? |
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Magna Carta |
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The largest type of champagne bottle |
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The earliest known map of England |
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A volcano |
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A 13th century legal document |
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Domesday Book |
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An astrological almanac |
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The last book of the Bible |
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A chronicle of Saxon kings |
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An English census |
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The Queen Vic |
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A West End theatre |
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Benjamin Disraeli's dog |
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Sir Walter Raleigh's ship |
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The pub in EastEnders |
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AltaVista |
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An internet search engine |
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A salsa band |
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A Paraguayan mountain range |
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A space shuttle |
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| Who is...? |
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The current Poet Laureate |
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John Betjeman |
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Andrew Motion |
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WH Auden |
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Ted Hughes |
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The current husband of Anthea Turner? |
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Bruno Brookes |
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Hunter from Gladiators |
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Grant Bovey |
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Tim Westwood |
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Eminem |
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A French novelist |
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A Teletubby |
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A rap star |
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A cult leader |
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| What was the main conflict which took place in ...? |
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1066 |
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The Battle of Bosworth Field |
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The Battle of Britain |
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The Battle of Agincourt |
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The Battle of Hastings |
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1815 |
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The Boer War |
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The Battle of Waterloo
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The Battle of Gettysburg |
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The French Revolution |
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1956 |
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The Vietnam war |
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The Cuban missile crisis |
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The Korean war |
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The Suez crisis |
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| Who were the opposing sides... |
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In the English civil war? |
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Tudors and Stuarts |
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Roundheads and Cavaliers |
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Nobles and peasants |
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Whigs and Tories |
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In the Euro 2000 final? |
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Germany and Italy |
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Netherlands and Germany |
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France and Netherlands |
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Italy and France |
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| What is the missing element? |
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Troilus and... |
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Cymbeline |
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Cupid |
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Cressida |
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Coriolanus |
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Posh and... |
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Becks |
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Bud |
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Decker |
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Posher |
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TS... |
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Eliot |
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Lewis |
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Naipaul |
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Tolkien |
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Fatboy... |
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George |
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Wonder |
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Slim |
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And the Pies |
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| What were/are the following individuals best known for? |
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Alexander Fleming |
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Inventing the light bulb |
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Being the Scarlet Pimpernel |
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Discovering penicillin |
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Writing the James Bond novels |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
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Designing St Paul's Cathedral |
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Excavating dinosaurs |
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Being William Pitt's foreign minister |
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Inventing the telephone |
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Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Poetry |
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Showjumping |
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Women's rights |
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Genetics |
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Virginia Woolf |
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Writing |
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Boatbuilding |
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Tennis |
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Politics |
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JK Rowling |
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First woman in space |
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Tony Blair's parliamentary secretary |
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Fashion design |
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The Harry Potter books |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Lover of Elizabeth I |
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Former home secretary |
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Australian fast bowler |
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Author of the Canterbury Tales |
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Seamus Heaney |
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Newspaper magnate |
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Member of Boyzone |
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Landscape gardener |
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Poet |
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William Caxton |
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Shakespeare's favourite actor |
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Printer |
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One of Robin Hood's Merry Men |
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Author of The Knights of the Round Table |
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Lara Croft |
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Television gardener |
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Author of The Female Eunuch |
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Supermodel |
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Computer game character |
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Henry Purcell |
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Playwright |
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Controversial sculptor |
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Composer |
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Tate Modern architect
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