Страноведческие тесты. Great Britain. Famous People

 Great Britain. Famous People

1.        What is the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered by four of the King’s knights?

2.        Who was the first to discover the “Dark Continent”?

3.        Who sailed round the world in 1577 – 80 and defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?

4.        Who helped to annex Newfoundland in 1583 and Virginia in 1584 and whose expedition returned with a strange new luxury called tobacco?

5.        Name the great English explorer who reached the South Pole after Amundsen?

6.        Who discovered penicillin?

7.        Who discovered electromagnetic induction?

8.        Who defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?

9.        What English poet was a philosopher and a painter?

10.    Who discovered Australia?

11.    Who was the first woman prime minister of Great Britain?

12.    Who is the author of the gravitation theory?

13.    With whose name is the revolution in natural science associated?

14.    What famous English architect planned and built St. Paul’s Cathedral?

(The answers to questions)

Great Britain. Famous People

1.        Thomas a Becket.

2.        David Livingstone.

3.        Sir Francis Drake.

4.        Sir Walter Raleigh.

5.        Captain Robert Scott.

6.        Sir Alexander Fleming.

7.        Michael Faraday.

8.        Admiral Nelson.

9.        William Blake.

10.    Captain James Cook.

11.    Margaret Thatcher.

12.    Isaac Newton.

13.    … that is the name of Charles Darwin.

14.    Christopher Wren.