Quiz Questions about British History

1) What is the full, correct title for Britain?
2) Name the earliest known tribe of Homo sapiens to populate Britain.
3) Which group of tribes originated from northern Europe, bringing cultural traits which are still a part of British life today?
4) Which invading people, who arrived some time around 43 AD, drove the Picts into Scotland and the Celts into Wales?
5) In the 8th Century, the Benedictine monk known as the Venerable Bede wrote that his contemporaries were the mostly decendents of which three invading peoples?
6) Where did the Angles and Saxon come from?
7) Which group of people invaded Britain in 1066?
8) Between 1455 and 1485, which English counties warred against each other?
9) The conflict which raged between the kings of England and France is known as which war? 
10) Which war ended with the Battle of Worcester in 1651?

Now look for the answers:
1.The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2.Picts.
3.Celts.
4.Romans.
5.Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
6.The Angles and Saxons came from Germany, and the Jutes came from Denmark.
7.Normans.
8.Lancashire and York.
9.The One Hundred Years war.
10.English Civil War.