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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. What is the capital city of Scotland?

DundeeAberdeenEdinburghGlasgow

2. In the metric system used across science and most of the world, what is the standard unit of length?

The mileThe gallonThe poundThe metre

3. What is the capital city of England?

LondonManchesterBirminghamLiverpool

4. Which people built long, straight roads across Britain and founded the settlement that became London?

RomansNormansVikingsSaxons

5. Which document, signed by King John in 1215, said that even the king had to obey the law?

the Bill of RightsMagna Cartathe Domesday Bookthe Treaty of Union

6. Which Tudor king had six wives and broke from the Catholic Church to found the Church of England?

Richard IIIEdward VIHenry VIIIHenry VII

7. Which is the longest river in the United Kingdom?

TrentSevernThamesMersey

8. William Shakespeare, one of the most famous writers in English, mainly wrote what?

Newspaper articlesCookbooksScience textbooksPlays and poems

9. In the SI system, at what temperature does water freeze, in degrees Celsius?

-1032100

10. In which English town was William Shakespeare born?

Stratford-upon-AvonBathOxfordCambridge

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