I. Explanations: London the British Isles Robin Hood the Anglo-Saxons the Vikings King Arthur King Harold The Easter Rising Loyalists or Unionists The Provisional IRA The Official IRA Sinn Fein “Home Rule” a “Civil Rights” movement the divine right of kings the civil war the “roundheads” Magna Carta the Great Council Charles I the Bill of Rights of 1689 the Constitution the functions of Parliament the roles of monarchy the House of Lords the House of Commons the importance of general elections the formation of the government vote of no confidence the electoral campaigns the Conservative party the Labour party the Liberal Democrats Margaret Thatcher John Major relative decline of the UK economy causes for the relative decline privatization in the 1980s main sectors of the UK economy the UK’s agriculture the UK’s manufacturing industry The City the aerospace industry Concorde William Shakespeare Elizabethan drama the Bronte sisters Charles Dickens Walter Scott Joseph Conrad The Canterbury Tales King Arthur Virginia Woolf D.H.Lawrence The Romantic Movement Modernism Postmodernism football in Britain the FA Cup tennis Wimbledon cricket golf horse racing the Royal Ascot “hunt saboteurs” Christmas the Christmas Pantomime Boxing Day Easter Ramadan Trooping the Colour Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night) William of Orange the Orange March St Patrick’s Day St Patrick first-footing the Burns Night Halloween the Eisteddfod comprehensive schools grammar schools independent schools Open University owner-occupation flats class system in British society Oxbridge Britain and the European Union Britain and the United States the Commonwealth NATO the British Broadcasting Corporation The Guardian quality paper The News of the World The Broadcasting Act The Official Secret Act 100. Tabloid