Quiz 10. British Monarchy, Political Parties, Elections.
1. Can a monarch in Britain marry someone of Roman Catholic faith? (No)
2. How does the title to the throne pass in the Royal family? (on the male line in order of descent. If there are no sons to the daughter in order of descent)
3. Can anything that Parliament has decided become law until the Queen has agreed to it (signed it) formally. (Nothing)?
4. Are the members of the Royal family allowed to vote in Parliamentary election? (No)
5. Who can stand as a candidate to Parliament? (anyone over 21, except clergymen, civil servants, felons and bankrupts)
6. How are British citizens legally described (called)? (Subjects of her Majesty the Queen)
7. What practical role does the Queen play in the country? (represents the country + ceremonial duties)
8. What is the surname of the present-day Royal family? (the Windsors, the House of)
9. How often are general elections to Parliament held?(once at least every 5 years)
10. Who has the right to call elections before the 5-year term has expired? (the PM)
11. How old is Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother? (born 1900)
12. When did Queen Elizabeth II come to the throne? (1952)
13. What is the official title of the Queen’s husband? (duke of Edinburgh)
14. Name the 3 leading political parties in Great Britain.(Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democratic)
15. When (What decade) was the Conservative Party formed? What was its old name? (1830s, Tory)

Quiz 11. American Geography.
1. What place does the US take in the world both on terms of size and population? (the 4th)
2. What is the lowest area in the US? (Death Valley, CA 282 ft below sea level, 89m)
3. What are the Rocky Mountains famous for? (natural parks)
4. What kind of climate is characteristic of most of the country? (humid continental climate with hot summers and cold winters)
5. Do Protestants still make the majority of the population?(Yes, 53%)
6. What is the highest peak in the country and where is it situated? (Mount. McKinley, Alaska, 20320fett = 6194m)
7. What mineral resources are the Appalachian Mountains rich in? (mineral resources, coal and iron, easily accessible)
8. Name the 2 longest rivers in the US? (the Missouri, 3942km, the Mississippi, 3760km)
9. What kind of people constituted (made) the great majority of immigrants to the US in the middle of the 19th century? (wasp, white anglosaxon protestant)
10. Is birth rate in America higher than in Europe? (Yes, but lower than in most regions of the world)
11. Which is the smallest state within the US? (Rhode Island, 3100 sq.m.)
12. What two major parts are interior plains in the US divided into? (The central Plains east, the Great Plains west)
13. Which of the 5 Great Lakes is entirely on the US territory? (Michigan)
14. What proportion of the population do the native Americans (Indians) comprise today? (less than1%, 1,5mln
15. What is the most densely populated state within the US?374 people per sq. Km)
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Quiz 12. Human Geography and American History.
1. When and where was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded? (1607, Jamestown, Virginia)
2. When did the American War of Independence take place? (1775-1783)
3. Name at least 3 of the Founding Fathers. (Bejamin Framklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson)
4. Where and when did one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War take place? (Geltysburg, July 1863)
5. What was the basic policy the US intended to adopt during both WWI and WWII? (strict neutrality, isolationism)
6. When did the country enter the WWII? (7 Dec. 1941)
7. How long and when did the Vietnam War last? (20years 1955-1975)
8. What is understood under the term “racial discrimination”? (a different approach).
9. Which of the post-war American presidents used to call the Soviet Union “the evil empire”?
10. When did “Pilgrim Fathers” land at Cape New England? (Dec. 1620)
11. When was Treaty of Paris recognizing America’s independence from GB signed? (Sept. 1783)
12. What was the main cause of the (Civil) War of Secession (1861-1865)? (Contradiction between the North and the South on the issue of slavery)
13. Which two of the 50 states were the last to join the US in the 20th century? (Alaska and Hawaii 1959)
14. When did the Great Depression begin? (after the Wall-Street Crash in Oct. 1929)
15. How did Roosevelt’s “New Deals” improve the situation by late 1930s?(planning introduced onto the economy; measures to provide security against unemployment, old age, illness; helpfarmers to prevent depression from being repeated.)
16. What do you understand under the term “McCarthyism”? (a wide-spread method of discrediting people without proof, of accusing them of being pro-communist in the 1950s)
17. Name one of the outstanding leaders of protest movement of the blacks (civil rights movement period in the 1960s)? (the reverent Martin Luther King?)
18. What did the Marshall Plan of 1947 consist in? (US gave and loaned bielions of dollars to European countries (Germany in particular to reconstruct their economy)

Quiz 12. Human Geography and American History.
1. What was the name of the second permanent English settlement “Pilgrim Fathers” founded on New England? (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
2. When and where was the declaration of Independence signed?($ July, 1776, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
3. What state was the first to secede from the union its response to Lincoln’s election President? (South Carolina, 20 Dec. 1860)
4. Name at least 2 “captains” of American industry who were representative figures of the period of industrialization in the US. (Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie)
5. When did the country enter the WWI? (April 1917)
6. Why and when was the NATO formed?(April 1949, to counter the Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe)
7. What is understood under the term “racial segregation”.((isolation, separation and discrimination – different approaches)
8. When was the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed with the USSR? (SALT = ОСВ-1(рус) 1972)
9. When was the cold war officially pronounced to be over? (1989Malta Summit)

Quiz 13. The US Political System.
1. What 3 popular nicknames of the US national flag do you know? (The stars and stripes, old glory, star-spangled banner)
2. Where can you see the symbolic representation of the official national bird of the US (the bald eagle)?(dollar bills, 25-cent coins (quarter dollar), the coat of arms, the presidential seal)
3. The Constitution of 1791 contained 10 amendments allowing the freedom of religion, speech, the press, etc. What is their collective name? (the bill of rights)
4. What doctrine is the American constitution based upon? (the separation of power between the executive, legislative and judicial)
5. Name the 2 major political parties in the US and their symbols. (demokratic- donkey, republican – elephant)
6. Who can be elected President? (a natural-born citizen, over 34, for at least 14yers resident of US)
7. How long (How many terms) can the President stay in office at the most? (2 terms after Roosevelt’s 4 terms)
8. How are heads of different government departments in the Cabinet called? (secretary of State)
9. Why are the Lobbyists often called “the 3rd chamber of the US Congress”? (influence the process of law-making)
10. When was the Democratic Party founded? (1854)