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Quiz about This Sceptred Isle This England
Quiz about This Sceptred Isle This England

This Sceptred Isle.... This England! Quiz


This is the first team quiz by 'The Full English' and covers a few aspects of this great nation of ours. We hope you enjoy playing it!

A multiple-choice quiz by Team The Full English. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
351,728
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
1466
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 176 (5/10), Guest 86 (5/10), Guest 86 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Team member SisterSeagull asks... As you travel across England to visit long lost relatives, you decide to take a break. You pull over and stop at the nearest 'greasy spoon' cafe and are intrigued by the mention of the 'Full English' on the menu. Of the following, which item would you NOT expect to be served as a part of your breakfast? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Team member Lil_Miss_Fickle says... Our team members are all from England and a couple of us are from the town of Bury, Lancashire. In the centre of Bury stands a statue of Sir Robert Peel who was born in the town in February 1788. Which of the following statements about Robert Peel is NOT true? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Devon dialect - If SisterSeagull referred to you as 'chubbleheaded', he would be telling you that you are which of the following? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. SisterSeagull would like to know if you can identify the Victorian poet and novelist who gave us the following literary works: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and 'Jude the Obscure'? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Team Leader, Superhooppete, would put money on the fact that you don't know which player of Spanish nationality, scored the first goal of the 2012/13 English Premier League season and against which team he scored it against, when the season 'kicked off' on the 18th of August 2012? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. SisterSeagull would like to point out that we Englishmen, and women, love our pubs and many of them have unusual, historical and, just occasionally, quite gruesome names. Just a short drive from Hayle in Cornwall lies the village of Phillack which has one such establishment. It is the only pub in England to bear this name... but what name? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. This quiz title, "This Sceptred Isle...This England", is taken from an historical work by William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright, but SisterSeagull would like to know if you can identify the correct one? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This question is posed by another team member. The rock band Oasis named themselves after a leisure centre in which English town? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Superhooppete asks...There is a work of abstract art mounted 33 feet high at the top of the Mayflower Steps on Plymouth's Barbican. It depicts a fantastic sea creature, but after which crustacean is this artwork better known locally? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Coronation Street is England's longest-running television soap opera and Lil_Miss_Fickle is a big fan, but England is also the home of a RADIO soap opera which, since 2009, has held the title for the longest running soap opera in the world. Can you tell her what this show is called? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Team member SisterSeagull asks... As you travel across England to visit long lost relatives, you decide to take a break. You pull over and stop at the nearest 'greasy spoon' cafe and are intrigued by the mention of the 'Full English' on the menu. Of the following, which item would you NOT expect to be served as a part of your breakfast?

Answer: Fried Okra

There will, most certainly, be variations on the basic breakfast in different areas of England. However, if you ordered a full english breakfast in most cafes/restaurants, you should expect to receive sausages, bacon, fried/poached or scrambled eggs, mushrooms, baked beans and/or grilled tomatoes, fried bread or toast and, if the cafe is up to scratch, a nice big mug of steaming hot tea, but most definitely NOT a portion of okra. I don't think that there are many countries in the world where you can go into a cafe at three o'clock in the afternoon and order a full cooked breakfast!

The 'Full English' is brimming with goodness!
2. Team member Lil_Miss_Fickle says... Our team members are all from England and a couple of us are from the town of Bury, Lancashire. In the centre of Bury stands a statue of Sir Robert Peel who was born in the town in February 1788. Which of the following statements about Robert Peel is NOT true?

Answer: He invented the 'flying shuttle' making weaving looms faster

Bury was originally a mill town built on the backs of the weavers and spinners, but the flying shuttle was invented by another Bury man named John Kay in 1733, fifty five years before Robert Peel's birth.

Sir Robert Peel served two terms as Prime Minister of England from 1834-1835, and from 1841-1846 as part of the Tory Party.
3. Devon dialect - If SisterSeagull referred to you as 'chubbleheaded', he would be telling you that you are which of the following?

Answer: Stupid

Some of us here in deepest Devon, feel sad when 'furriners' describe us as yokels or laugh at our accent. However, there must be some basis in fact as we ourselves have literally dozens of words that describe the less intelligent amongst us! 'Addle-aid', 'bacon-aid', 'daw-bake', 'stunpile' and 'gappermouth' are all words used, albeit, not so commonly these days, as mild insults toward the stupid. An arrogant person may be described as 'Biggetty', if you were a good looking man (or woman) you might be 'anzum' and a spotty youth may be described as 'amper', 'bragety' or 'burly-vaced'.
4. SisterSeagull would like to know if you can identify the Victorian poet and novelist who gave us the following literary works: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and 'Jude the Obscure'?

Answer: Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in the village of Upper Bockhampton in the county of Dorset, England on the 2nd of June 1840, the son of a stonemason. Many of Hardy's literary works were critical of the society in which he lived and, as a countryman, his work reflected the decline in rural life that was taking place at the time.

Although probably more famous for his novels, Hardy always considered himself, first and foremost, a poet even though his first poetry collection was not published until 1898. Hardy had moved to London in 1862 to attend Kings College, but returned to Dorset in 1867 to concentrate on his writing. Hardy married twice - firstly in 1874 and then again in 1914. Hardy was taken ill in December 1927 with pleurisy and died the following month on the 11th of January 1928.

His ashes were interred in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey but his heart was buried, where it belonged, in Stinsford, Dorset not far from the place of his birth.
5. Team Leader, Superhooppete, would put money on the fact that you don't know which player of Spanish nationality, scored the first goal of the 2012/13 English Premier League season and against which team he scored it against, when the season 'kicked off' on the 18th of August 2012?

Answer: Miguel Michu v QPR

Miguel Minchu scored the first goal of the season for Swansea against QPR in the 8th minute. Swansea went on to win the game 5-0 with Minchu scoring his second goal in the 53rd minute. Damien Duff scored for Fulham in the 26th minute against Norwich, the game finishing 5-0 to Fulham. Kevin Nolan scored for West Ham in the 40th minute against Aston Villa and that game finished 1-0 to West Ham. Zolton Gera scored for West Bromwich Albion in the 43rd minute against Liverpool, this game finishing 3-0 to West Bromwich Albion.
6. SisterSeagull would like to point out that we Englishmen, and women, love our pubs and many of them have unusual, historical and, just occasionally, quite gruesome names. Just a short drive from Hayle in Cornwall lies the village of Phillack which has one such establishment. It is the only pub in England to bear this name... but what name?

Answer: The Bucket of Blood

The Bucket of Blood is one of my favourite public houses. It gained its name through local legend. Early one morning, around 200 years ago, the landlord went to draw water from his well. When the pail reached the top he was horrified to see that the water was coloured bright red with blood! On further investigation the dismembered body of a revenue officer was discovered having been thrown down the well by his killers - the pub's own customers!

The building looks the same now as it did hundreds of years ago. Flagstones on the floor, an open fire for when the wind howls in from the sea, creaking doors and windows and low, low beams in the ceiling. Sometimes, on a winters evening, you can hear the screams of the victim as the locals butcher him alive and, of course, the establishment is now haunted by the spirit of the murdered victim.

The pub sign is enough to make your blood run cold as it sways and creaks in the wind...
7. This quiz title, "This Sceptred Isle...This England", is taken from an historical work by William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright, but SisterSeagull would like to know if you can identify the correct one?

Answer: Richard II

"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England".

"Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
8. This question is posed by another team member. The rock band Oasis named themselves after a leisure centre in which English town?

Answer: Swindon

Liam Gallagher saw the name Oasis Leisure Centre, Swindon, on a tour poster for the band Inspiral Carpets and said they should change their name from their original name The Rain.
9. Superhooppete asks...There is a work of abstract art mounted 33 feet high at the top of the Mayflower Steps on Plymouth's Barbican. It depicts a fantastic sea creature, but after which crustacean is this artwork better known locally?

Answer: Prawn

It was erected in 1996 with the offical name 'The Plymouth Sea Monster', but the locals have nicknamed it the The Barbican Prawn. It was designed by Derbyshire based artist Brian Fell, and represents the many types of fish and shellfish landed by local trawler men on Plymouth Barbican.
10. Coronation Street is England's longest-running television soap opera and Lil_Miss_Fickle is a big fan, but England is also the home of a RADIO soap opera which, since 2009, has held the title for the longest running soap opera in the world. Can you tell her what this show is called?

Answer: The Archers

The Archers is aired on Radio 4 and has been going since 1951. It is the ongoing story of the lives of a small farming community set in the fictional villages and county of Ambridge in Borsetshire. It is the most listened to non-news programme on Radio 4.
Source: Author SisterSeagull

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