The US and The UK final test

What is the capital of the UK?
Birmingham
Manchester
London
Edinburgh
London

What countries make up the UK?
1) England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
2) England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
3) England, Wales, Scotland

Which country is famous for it's Lochs?
3) England
1) Northern Ireland
2) Wales
4) Scotland

The Hebrides are a large group of Islands off the coast of which country?
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
England

What's the capital of the Republic of Ireland?
Cardiff
Dublin
London
Belfast

Where in Britain can you find Loch Ness?
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Scotland

What is the capital of Scotland?
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
Inverness
Edinburgh

What is the highest mountain in Britain?
Snowdon
Ben Nevis
Ben Macdhui
Scafell Pike
Ben Nevis

In which part of Britain can you find the Snowdonia National Park?
Wales Scotland
Northern Ireland
England
Wales

What is the flag of the UK called?
Tricolore
Union Jack
Stars and Stripes
United Kingdom
Union Jack

What countries are presented on the flag?
1) England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
2) England, Scotland, Ireland
3) England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
- St Patrick
St Andrew
- Scotland
St George - England

In which part of the UK is the Lake District?
England
Wales Scotland
Northern Ireland

1. London Bridge
2. Tower Bridge
3. Westminster Bridge
4. Waterloo Bridge
What is it?

1. Tower of London
2. Westminster Abby
3. St. Paul’s Cathedral
4. Buckingham Palace

3. London eye
1. London circle
2. London wheel

4. Buckingham Palace
2. St. James's Palace
3. Kensington Palace
1. Palace of Westminster

3. Trafalgar Square
1. Soho Square
4. Piccadilly Circus
2. Parliament Square

1. Trafalgar Square
2. Piccadilly Circus
3. Covent Garden
4. Leicester Square

1. Queen Victoria
2. Queen Elizabeth II
3. Queen Elizabeth I
4. Queen Alexandra

1. Tony Blair
2. Gordon Brown
3. David Cameron
What is he?
Current Prime Minister
was appointed on 11 May 2010

How many branches of power are existed?
executive
legislative
judicial

What power does he represent?
executive
legislative
judicial

1. The Palace of Westminster
2. The Houses of Parliament
3. Westminster Abby
4. St. Paul’s Cathedral

Legislative
Executive
Judicial
What power does it represent?

Structure of Parliament
The House of Lords
The House of Commons

What’s the name of this flag?
Flag of the United States
Stars and Stripes
Union Jack

How many stars are on the flag? What do they mean?
The fifty stars represent the 50 states

How many stripes are on the flag? What do they mean?
the 13 stripes represent the original thirteen colonies

What bird represents the USA?
The Bald Eagle
Andean Condor
Flamingo

What is it? Where is it? What works there?
The U.S. Capitol
Congress
in Washington, DC

What part does the Congress consist of?
Senators and Representatives
House of Commons and House of Lords
State Duma and Federation Council
Congress
Senators
Representatives
from 50 states
Create new laws

Main political parties?
1) Liberal party, Democratic, Republican
2) Democratic, Republican
3) Liberal party, Democratic

What symbol does Democrats have?
elephant
donkey

Who is the head of the state?
president

What is the country's supreme legal document?
Constitution
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence

What president
didn’t live here?
George Washington

Mount Rushmore
What is it?
Crazy Horse Memorial

What controls schools?
Government, local administration
State Government, school boards
Senate, Department of education

state governments
School Boards
control

What do school boards do?
School Boards
We are locally elected
We are responsible for school curricula, funding, teaching, and other policies

What is Department of Education responsible for?
1)Educational standards
4) standardized testing
5) school curricula
2) funding
3) teaching

What countries does the USA border?
1)Russia, Canada, Mexico
2) Canada, Cuba, Mexico
3) Canada, Mexico

What waters is the USA washed by?
Pacific ocean, Atlantic ocean, Arctic ocean
Pacific ocean, Atlantic ocean
Pacific ocean, Atlantic ocean, Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic ocean
Pacific ocean

What great rivers flow across the country?
1) Columbia R., Missouri R., Mississippi R., Colorado R., Hudson R., Potomac R., Ohio R., Arkansas R., Rio Grande R., Yukon R. St. Lawrence R.
2) Columbia R., Mississippi R., Colorado R.
3) Mississippi R., Colorado R., Hudson R., Potomac R.,

Rivers
Hudson R.
Potomac R.
Mississippi R.
Ohio R.
Missouri R.
Arkansas R.
Colorado R.
Columbia R.
Yukon R.
Rio Grande R.
St. Lawrence R.

What was one of the first important documents in the history of democratic government in America?
1) the Mayflower Compact
2) the Stamp Act
3) the Declaration of Independence

What colony was the first to establish?
1) Virginia
2) Plymouth
3) Connecticut

The Colonial period ended with the start of …
1) the Revolutionary War
2) the Civil war
3) the War of 1812

The Civil War …
1) war between North and South
2) war for independence
3) war with Amerindians

The first President of the USA was
1) George Washington
2) Abraham Lincoln
3) Thomas Jefferson