Today’s English Lunchers (17.01.24) will tackle these questions on famous Britons!!
The answers are given below (no peaking!).
1. Who is often regarded as the “Father of English Literature” and wrote “The Canterbury Tales”?
- a) William Wordsworth
- b) Geoffrey Chaucer
- c) Charles Dickens
- d) Jane Austen
2. Which monarch is known as the “Virgin Queen”?
- a) Queen Anne
- b) Queen Victoria
- c) Queen Mary
- d) Queen Elizabeth I
3. Who is the legendary detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
- a) Hercule Poirot
- b) Philip Marlowe
- c) Sam Spade
- d) Sherlock Holmes
4. Which English scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
- a) Charles Darwin
- b) Isaac Newton
- c) Stephen Hawking
- d) Michael Faraday
5. Who authored the allegorical novella “Animal Farm”?
- a) Aldous Huxley
- b) George Orwell
- c) H.G. Wells
- d) J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Which famous English nurse is known as the founder of modern nursing?
- a) Florence Nightingale
- b) Mary Seacole
- c) Clara Barton
- d) Edith Cavell
7. Who is considered the “Bard of Avon”?
- a) William Wordsworth
- b) William Blake
- c) William Shakespeare
- d) John Milton
8. Which English naturalist and biologist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
- a) Charles Darwin
- b) Alfred Russel Wallace
- c) Richard Dawkins
- d) Gregor Mendel
9. Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United Kingdom and a leading suffragette?
- a) Emmeline Pankhurst
- b) Millicent Fawcett
- c) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- d) Mary Wollstonecraft
10. Which English author wrote the classic children’s book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?
- a) J.M. Barrie
- b) Beatrix Potter
- c) Lewis Carroll
- d) A.A. Milne
11. Who was the English composer known for his “Enigma Variations” and “Pomp and Circumstance Marches”?
- a) Benjamin Britten
- b) Edward Elgar
- c) Ralph Vaughan Williams
- d) William Walton
12. Which English playwright and poet is known for his works like “Doctor Faustus” and “Tamburlaine”?
- a) Christopher Marlowe
- b) Ben Jonson
- c) William Shakespeare
- d) John Webster
13. Who was the English physicist credited with the discovery of the electron and the development of the atomic model?
- a) J.J. Thomson
- b) Ernest Rutherford
- c) Niels Bohr
- d) James Clerk Maxwell
14. Which English actress is known for her roles in films like “Titanic” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”?
- a) Emma Watson
- b) Keira Knightley
- c) Kate Winslet
- d) Helen Mirren
15. Who is the English fashion designer known for his punk rock-inspired designs and the creation of the iconic Union Jack dress?
- a) Vivienne Westwood
- b) Stella McCartney
- c) Alexander McQueen
- d) Burberry
16. Which English philosopher is known for his political treatise “Leviathan” and the concept of the social contract?
- a) Thomas Hobbes
- b) John Locke
- c) David Hume
- d) Jeremy Bentham
17. Who is the English actor famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the BBC television series “Sherlock”?
- a) Martin Freeman
- b) Benedict Cumberbatch
- c) Tom Hiddleston
- d) David Tennant
18. Which English author wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice” and is known for her works on social commentary and romance?
- a) Charlotte Brontë
- b) Emily Brontë
- c) Jane Austen
- d) Virginia Woolf
19. Who was the English mathematician, logician, and computer scientist known for his work on artificial intelligence and the Turing machine?
- a) Alan Turing
- b) Charles Babbage
- c) Ada Lovelace
- d) George Boole
20. Which English singer-songwriter is known for hits like “Someone Like You” and “Rolling in the Deep”?
- a) Adele
- b) Ed Sheeran
- c) Sam Smith
- d) Ellie Goulding
And here are the answers!!
- b) Geoffrey Chaucer
- d) Queen Elizabeth I
- d) Sherlock Holmes
- b) Isaac Newton
- b) George Orwell
- a) Florence Nightingale
- c) William Shakespeare
- a) Charles Darwin
- c) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- c) Lewis Carroll
- b) Edward Elgar
- c) Christopher Marlowe
- a) J.J. Thomson
- c) Kate Winslet
- a) Vivienne Westwood
- a) Thomas Hobbes
- b) Benedict Cumberbatch
- c) Jane Austen
- a) Alan Turing
- a) Adele
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