"Great Britain" often is used to mean the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and _________ Ireland".
1841 the London Library in St. James Square was ________- a library of about 600,000 volumes, mainly devoted to the humanities and fine arts.
A daughter _______ succeeds to the throne becomes Queen Regnant and acquires the Crown’s powers as though she were king.
American colonists fought _____ their British colonists in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s.
Anglo-Russian relations covers the relationship ________ the countries of Russia and the United Kingdom and their predecessor states.
Animals and humans must have _______ between mainland Europe and Great Britain via a crossing.
As recently _________ 8,000 years ago Great Britain was joined to the continent.
Beefeater or the Queen's Guard are considered _______ be symbolic of Englishness.
Britain’s monarchy is the oldest, ________ back to the 9th century.
Coronation of the new Sovereign follows the accession _________ a convenient interval.
Dickens was a great lover of pubs and on this walk we follow ________ his footsteps around inns and taverns of old London.
Discover places ________ Dickens lived and worked.
During the Grand Embassy of Peter I in 1697-1698, Czar Peter I of Russia visited Britain ______ three months.
Each union sends a delegation _______ the party’s annual conference.
Elizabeth was _________ master of political science.
Explore another part of Dickens's London and discover the scenes __________ adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and a host of immortal characters.
From the time of the scientific revolution, England and Scotland, and thereafter the United Kingdom, have _______prominent in world scientific and technological development.
Great Britain is only the largest _______within the United Kingdom.
He is famous ________the father of classical mechanics, formulated as his three laws and as the co-inventor (with Gottfried Leibniz) of differential calculus.
He is most famous for _________ that the same force is responsible for movements of celestial and terrestrial bodies.
Historically, many of the UK's greatest scientists _______ been based at either Oxford or Cambridge University.
How long ________ the present British monarch reigned?
How _______ power does the Royal Family have?
How _________you characterize the inns and taverns of Dickens?
How __________ museums and libraries help to educate children?
In 1801, _________ a new Act of Union, this kingdom merged with the Kingdom of Ireland, over which the monarch of Great Britain had ruled.
In Cheddar Gorge the remains of animal species native to mainland Europe such as antelopes, brown bears, and wild horses _________ been found alongside a human skeleton, 'Cheddar Man', dated to about 7150 B.C.
In its beginnings, the United States consisted only of the Thirteen ______.
In subsequent centuries ______Vikings settled in several parts of the island.
Its Iron Age inhabitants are _________as the Britons, a group speaking a Celtic language.
Lancaster University has a global reputation _________ work in low temperature physics.
Let us start with the __________library in London, the Capitular Library of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Local authorities play _________important part in encouraging the arts.
London is one of the ________literary-minded cities in the world.
Members of the House of Lords, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and the leading citizens of the City of London _________ also invited.
Morris dancers or the costumes for the traditional English May dance are cited _______ some as examples of traditional English costume.
Most _______ the union members are affiliated through the union to the Labour Party.
Newton's Principia is one of _________ most influential works in the history of science.
Outside Parliament the party has more ________ a million individual members who pay annual subscriptions.
Oxford was first occupied in Saxon times, and was initially ________ as "Oxenaforda", meaning "Ford of the Ox".
Since the union of 1707, the entire island __________ one political unit.
Some evidence suggests that John Cabot ______ have reached what is presently New England in 1498.
Spanning nearly five centuries, it ________ often switched from a state of alliance to rivalry.
The arts in Britain are flourishing, and ___________ a varied and lively picture.
The automatic succession is summed up in the famous phrase «the King is dead; long ______ the King!».
The Conservative Party ________ formed by Robert Peel from what was left of the old Tory Party in the 1830s.
The current Union Flag dates _______ 1 January 1801 with the Act of Union 1800.
The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a synonym for the era which she dominated, was born in 1533 to _________ and Anne Boleyn.
The first ______ inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years.
The full royal title in Britain is: «Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the ___________».
The full royal title in Britain is: «Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the ___________, Defender of the Faith».
The island of Great Britain formed _______ the end of the Pleistocene ice age when sea levels rose due to depression of the crust and the melting of glaciers.
The island was first inhabited by people who ________over the land bridge from the European mainland.
The Kingdom of England and Tsardom of Russia established relations in 1553, when English navigator Richard Chancellor _________ in Archangelsk.
The Library was refounded after the Fire and the collection was ______ up again by gift and purchase during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The most famous of all English scientists, Isaac Newton, is considered by historians of science to ________ crowned and ended the scientific revolution with the 1687 publication of his Principia Mathematica.
The MPs _______ expected to observe discipline and to vote with the party.
The Muscovy Company held a monopoly over trade between England and Russia ______ 1698.
The name Britain is derived from the _________ name Britannia.
The new design added the red saltire cross of St Patrick's Flag for _____________.
The new Sovereign is proclaimed at an Accession Council to which all members of the Privy Council __________ summoned.
The origin of the library dates _________ to the seventh century.
The Party gives emphasis __________ the importance of law and order.
The party is highly disciplined, and its leader is accepted as the director of _________policies.
The party’s Central Office is responsible ________ the leader.
The persecution of continental Protestants forced Elizabeth _______ war, a situation which she desperately tried to avoid.
The present monarch, ___________, is directly descended from Saxon king Egbert, who united England under his rule in 829.
The situation with Mary Queen of Scots was ________vexing to Elizabeth.
The sons of the Sovereign and their descendants have precedence over daughters in _______ to the throne.
The south-east of Scotland was colonised _______ the Angles and formed, until 1018, a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
The southeastern part of Great Britain ________ still connected by a strip of low marsh to the European mainland in what is now northeastern France.
The spread of musical interest in Britain owes _________ to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The Union Flag, also known as the ________, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is one of _________ constitutional monarchies within Europe.
The United States ranges from the Atlantic Ocean on the nation's _____ coast to the Pacific Ocean bordering the west.
The University of Oxford is first __________ in 12th century records.
The USA is located in the middle of _____ North American continent with Canada to the north and the United Mexican States to the south.
There are _______ 900 museums and art galleries in Britain.
These colleges were established ________ a time when Europeans were starting to translate the writings of Greek philosophers.
Throughout Britain there are festivals and centres of _________ activity.
To speakers of Germanic languages, the Britons ________ called Welsh.
Traces of early humans have ______ found in Great Britain from some 700,000 years ago and modern humans from about 30,000 years ago.
Up until about 9,000 years ago, Great Britain ______ joined to Ireland.
Visit the Old Curiosity shop and the office _______ Charles worked at the age of fifteen.
What are the criticisms of ___________ British monarchy?
What books _______ Dickens have you read?
What charity work __________ performed by the Royal Family?
What do you know about ______ British monarchy?
What happens ________ the coronation ceremony?
What is the second journey through Dickens's London famous _________?
What is _________by the separation of powers?
What King is Queen Elizabeth II directly descended _________?
What places in _________City of London inspired Shakespeare?
What _______ more modern ceremonies and customs?
What _________ known about the English Act of Settlement (1701)?
When the flag ________introduced in 1606, it was known simply as "the British flag" or "the flag of Britain".
Why is Dickens regarded _________ a London writer?
Why ________ so many people who visit London today try to write Sherlock Holmes letters?
You know much about Sherlock Holmes's investigations, ___________ you?
You will also discover the 16th century riverside ______ inspired Shakespeare.
_____ the end of the tour you can visit the Dickens House museum.
_______ has been mentioned, the form of the Labour Party’s annual conference reflects the origins of the party as the political arm of the trade unions.
_______British Museum Library contains about six million books.
________ artists, writers, musicians and architects exert a powerful influence abroad.
________ can one follow in Dickens's footsteps?
________ English won the naval battle handily, aided by some fortuitous inclement English Channel weather, and emerged as the world's strongest naval power.
________ most important function of an association is to choose the party’s candidate for the next election.
_________ books by Dickens have you read?
_________ characters of Dickens's famous novels is this City Walk connected with?
__________ constitutional monarchies are there in the world?
__________ the Constitution give any special rank to the husband of a Queen Regnant?
___________ reign was one of the more constructive periods in English history.
Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, is credited as _____ the first European to reach modern-day U.S. territory
_______ Norman Conquest introduced a French ruling élite who also became assimilated.
What museums _________ the most famous and important in London?
The most original Sherlock Holmes _________ in London takes you straight to the heart of the Victorian Underworld.
Which museum _________ the finest English paintings and those of other countries in the world?
So join Holmes and Watson on _______ exciting journey from 221 В Baker Street through the byways of London.
What library _________ the largest municipal public library building of London?
What library______ destroyed in Great Fire of London?