영국 Life in the UK Test - 오답노트 40

• 1535 & 1542 - Henry VIII, Wales united w Eng by the Act for the Government of Wales. 
• Dame Kelly Holmes - 2 gold for running 2004 Olympic. 
• Population 2010 - over 62m
• British film studios flourished 1930s.

• Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) painted in country or garden scenery.
• The first verse of Anthem is ‘God save our gracious King!.

• When Queen Anne died in 1714, Parliament chose a German, George I, Protestant relative.
• Population 2005 - under 60m

• Domestic violence - solicitor or Citizens Advice Bureau. CAB
• David Lean - Brief Encounter (1945) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). DL = BE & LA
• Council of Europe - protection and promotion of human rights
• Eminent directors - Sir Alexander Korda and Sir Alfred Hitchcock AK & AH 

• Catherine of Aragon - First wife Henry VIII.
• Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910-99) / Hovercraft / 1950s. CCH
• George Frederick Handel wrote an oratorio, Messiah, Easter time Choir

• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) - Mike Newell.
• Emmeline Pankhurst, born in Manchester 1858. She set up the women’s Franchise League in 1889, and WSPU 1903
• Mousetrap, by Dame Agatha Christie, west end since 1952 and longest initial run of any show in history.
• Gilbert and Sullivan - SEARCH 

• Laurence Olivier Awards / annually London. Shakespeare plays award
• Population UK 1998 - 57M
• 1837, Queen Victoria queen 18.
• Killing Fields (1984) by Roland Joffé.
• The Wars of the Roses ended with the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

• Senedd-  education and training, health and social services, economic development and housing.
• Council of Europe - Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
• Brit Awards is an annual / music award
• Mercury prize?

• UN 190
• WWI - more than 2m British casualties.
• All the world’s a stage - WS As You Like It.
• Elizabeth I, colonised eastern coast of America.

• PM appoints the members of the cabinet
• 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a BOT in the South Atlantic.
• PM appoints 20 MPs 
• Mary Peters gold medal / pentathlon / 1972.

• Chariots of Fire (1981) - Hugh Hudson.

• A British sailor, Sir Francis Chichester, first to sail singlehanded around the world, in 1966/67.
• Council of Europe / x EU / 47 countries / responsible for the protection and promotion of human rights.
• Population UK 1901 40m.

• More serious civil cases – eg, when a large amount of compensation is being claimed – High Court of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland, Court of Session in Edinburgh.

• Christopher Cockerell, hovercraft 1950s.
• A British sailor, Sir Francis Chichester, was the first person to sail singlehanded around the world, in 1966/67. 2 years later, Sir Robin Knox- Johnston became the first person to do this without stopping.
• Visit Senedd you can contact the Senedd Booking Service or visit website for an online booking form.
• Bronze Age - metalworkers

• County Courts deal with a wide range of civil disputes. These include people trying to get back money that is owed to them, cases involving personal injury, family matters, breaches of contract, and divorce. In Scotland, most of these matters are dealt with in the Sheriff Court.
• statue of Boudicca, the queen of the Iceni, on Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament.

• Visit to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont. You can either contact the Education Service or contact an MLA.
• Defeated Germany in May 1945.
• Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park covers 720 sq miles (1,865 sq km)
• To visit the UK Parliament, you can write to your local MP in advance to ask for tickets or you can Queue on the day at the public entrance.

• The UN Security Council, which recommends action when there are international crises and threats to peace.

• Motor-car racing in the UK started in 1902.
• Apple & summer - Anglo-Saxon
• Local authorities funded by money from central government and by local taxes.
• Wales population 5%.
• Jessica Ennis (1986-) won the 2012 Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon, which includes 7 different track and field. 
• The Super League is the most well-known rugby league
• First tennis club - Leamington Spa 1872.
• Poems which survive from the Middle Ages include Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and a poem called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about one of the knights at the court of King Arthur.
• The UK 1st sign the Convention in 1950.
• The most famous rugby union competition is the Six Nations Championship.
• James I and his son Charles I both believed in the ‘Divine Right of Kings’: the idea that the king was directly appointed by God to rule.

• The settlements of Scottish and English Protestants in Ulster during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, who took over the land from Catholic landholders is known as: plantations
• Traditional characters of the pantomimes - Dame, a woman played by a man
• Many of the Viking invaders stayed in Britain – especially in the east and north of England in an area known as the Danelaw.
• York Minster is a famous example of stained glass used on the windows of some cathedrals during the middle ages.
• The burial place of one of the Anglo-Saxon kings was at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.
• Evelyn Waugh wrote satirical novels, including Decline and Fall and Scoop. He is perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited.

• Scottish architect Robert Adam designed Dumfries House in Scotland.
• The Normans used a system of land ownership known as feudalism.
• 1680 - 1720 refugees Huguenots came from France. Protestants and had been persecuted for their religion.
• Joseph Turner (1775-1851) was landscape painter in a modern style. 
• Bayeux Tapestry - 70M (230 feet) 
• Costa Rica is not a member of the Commonwealth.

• Anti slavery - Quakers
• Police and Crime Commissioners - They also appoint the local Chief Constable.
• In 1066, an invasion led by William, the Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold, the Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings. Harold was killed in the battle.
• BBC radio 1922 / first regular TV 1936.
• The National Citizen Service programme 16- and 17-year- Experience NCSP
• 1837, Queen Victoria - queen @18.

• George Frederick Handel wrote Music for King George I & George II.
• Slaves came from West Africa.

 

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• Millennium Stadium - Cardiff.
• Clans lost a lot of their power and influence after Culloden. 
• FREE PRESS - 1695
• Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were inspired to write First World War. WO & SS
• Driving while exceeding the alcohol limit you will be arrested.
• Nauru - Commonwealth.
• Anglo-Saxon kings = Cnut / Canute.
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene and Sir Kingsley Amis were British writers. - TRUE RLS & GG & KA
• 1929, ‘Great Depression’ shipbuilding were badly affected but new industries / automobile and aviation industries – developed.
• Bessemer - STEEL
• TEST13 - PASSED 2ND TIME
• Bronze Age / roundhouses / round barrows.
• 1853 - 1913, 13 m British citizens left the country.
• Brief Encounter (1945) - David Lean.
• 2011 Census, 59% Christian. Muslim (4.8%), Hindu (1.5%), Sikh (0.8%), Jewish or Buddhist (both less than 0.5%).
• Margaret Thatcher - Lincolnshire.
• Jenson Button-  Formula 1 driver.
• 1284 King Edward I - Statute of Rhuddlan, annexed Wales to the Crown of England.
• Brexit referendum - 23 June 2016.

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• The Houses of Parliament and St Pancras Station built in the 19th century, as were the town halls in cities such as Manchester and Sheffield.
• NATIONAL TRUST - 61,000 volunteers 
• POPULATION UK in 1851 - 20 M
• Vaisakhi is a Sikh festival which celebrates the founding of the Sikh community known as the Khalsa.
• Visit to the NI Assembly at Stormont. Contact Education Service or contact an MLA.
• 1932 Scotsman John Logie Baird made the first TV broadcast between LDN  and GLA.
• Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf tells of its hero’s battles against monsters 
• 39 Steps (1935) - Alfred Hitchcock.

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• 2011 census, 25% no religion.
• PM has a country house Chequers.
• Turing machine - Alan Turing (1912-54), in the 1930s. development of modern-day computer
• The day before Lent - Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day.
• ‘Concorde’ began carrying passengers in 1976.
• Loch Lomond is the largest expanse of fresh water in mainland Britain 
• Andrew Lloyd Webber has written the music for shows which have been popular throughout the world, including, in collaboration with Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and also Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.

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• Charles II was crowned king of Scotland and led a Scottish army into England. Cromwell defeated this army in the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester.
• Local elections for councillors are held in May every year.
• Rugby originated in early 19th century eng
• Long live our noble King! is the 2nd sentence of the National Anthem of the UK.
• UK laws ensure that people are not treated unfairly in any area of life or work because of their age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexuality or marital status.
• ‘To be or not to be’ WS Hamlet.
• Ernest Rutherford, working at Manchester and then Cambridge University, were the first to ‘split the atom’ and took part in the Manhattan Project in the United States, which developed the atomic bomb.
• Sir Walter Scott wrote poems inspired by Scotland and the traditional stories and songs from the area on the borders of Scotland and England

 
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• Julius Caesar led a Roman invasion in 55 BC. This was unsuccessful and for nearly 100 years Britain remained separate from the Roman Empire
• When Henry VIII took the title ‘King of Ireland’, English laws were introduced and local leaders were expected to follow the instructions of the Lord Lieutenants in Dublin.
• Northern Ireland, Battle of the Boyne is celebrated in July 
• Lincoln Cathedral built in the middle ages
• Queen Mary - Catholic and persecuted Protestants Bloody Mary
• ‘All the world’s a stage’ - WS As You Like It.
• The National Trust was founded in 1895 by 3 volunteers.
• Tennis evolved 19th cen
• Middle ages, several cathedrals had windows of stained glass, telling stories about the Bible and Christian saints.