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  1. Complete the sentence about Scots language with the correct year: From ______, the term Scottis was increasingly used to refer to the Lowland vernacular and Erse, meaning "Irish", was used as a name f…
  2. Complete the sentence about Scots language with the correct year: The name Modern Scots is used to describe the Scots language after ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Welsh language with the correct year: Since ______, the number of children attending Welsh-medium schools has increased, while the number going to Welsh bilingual and dual…
  4. Complete the sentence about Welsh language with the correct year: Late Modern Welsh, which is still the form spoken today started with William Morgan's ______ translation of the Bible, and is still re…
  5. Complete the sentence about British cuisine with the correct year: After the Norman Conquest in ______, the Normans reintroduced many spices and continental influences that had been lost after the dep…
  6. Complete the sentence about Fish and chips with the correct year: In ______, Harry Ramsden opened his first fish and chip shop in Guiseley, West Yorkshire.
  7. Complete the sentence about Full English breakfast with the correct year: In ______, the English Breakfast Society was established as a learned society.
  8. Complete the sentence about Yorkshire pudding with the correct year: Similar instructions were published during ______ in the book The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse, with the nam…
  9. Complete the sentence about Yorkshire pudding with the correct year: National Yorkshire Pudding Day has been celebrated on the first Sunday in February in Britain since ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Haggis with the correct year: Although the name "hagws" or "hagese" was first recorded in England c. ______, the dish is considered traditionally of Scottish origin.
  11. Complete the sentence about Haggis with the correct year: An early printed recipe for haggis appears in ______ in The English Huswife by Gervase Markham.
  12. Complete the sentence about Cornish pasty with the correct year: In ______, Le Ménagier de Paris contains recipes for pasté with venison, veal, beef or mutton.
  13. Complete the sentence about Scottish whisky with the correct year: The first known written mention of Scotch whisky is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland of ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Scottish whisky with the correct year: The earliest record of distillation in Scotland is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland for ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Hamlet with the correct year: A reasonably faithful version of Saxo's story was translated into French in ______ by François de Belleforest, in his Histoires tragiques.
  16. Complete the sentence about Hamlet with the correct year: Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or by Shakespeare, the Ur-Hamlet would have existed by ______, and would have incorporated a ghost.
  17. Complete the sentence about Hamlet with the correct year: In ______ Andrew Cairncross suggested that, until more becomes known, it may be assumed that Shakespeare wrote the Ur-Hamlet.
  18. Complete the sentence about Hamlet with the correct year: Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in ______ at age e…
  19. Complete the sentence about Hamlet with the correct year: The earliest date estimate relies on Hamlet's frequent allusions to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, itself dated to mid-______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Charles Dickens with the correct year: In January ______ John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia.
  21. Complete the sentence about Jane Austen with the correct year: The first Austen biography was her brother Henry Thomas Austen's ______ "Biographical Notice".
  22. Complete the sentence about Jane Austen with the correct year: Jane Austen was born on 16 December ______ in Steventon, Hampshire.
  23. Complete the sentence about Jane Austen with the correct year: In ______, at the age of fifteen, George's sister Philadelphia was apprenticed to a milliner in Covent Garden.
  24. Complete the sentence about Brontë family with the correct year: Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, he was ordained on 10 August ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Brontë family with the correct year: In ______ Patrick was appointed minister at Hartshead-cum-Clifton.
  26. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he met and married 29-year-old Maria Branwell at Guiseley.
  27. Complete the sentence about Brontë family with the correct year: On the death of his wife in ______, his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Branwell, came from Penzance, Cornwall, to help him bring up the child…
  28. Complete the sentence about Thomas Hardy with the correct year: While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until ____…
  29. Complete the sentence about Thomas Hardy with the correct year: In ______ he moved to London, where he enrolled as a student at King's College London.
  30. Complete the sentence about George Orwell with the correct year: In ______, Ida settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
  31. Complete the sentence about George Orwell with the correct year: Arriving in September ______, he boarded for the next five years, returning home only for holidays.
  32. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In May ______ a place became available as a King's Scholar at Eton.
  33. Complete the sentence about J. R. R. Tolkien with the correct year: John Benjamin's brother Daniel Gottlieb Tolkien obtained British citizenship in ______, but John Benjamin Tolkien apparently never b…
  34. Complete the sentence about J. R. R. Tolkien with the correct year: Tolkien, live in northern Germany, but most of them are descendants of people who were evacuated from East Prussia in ______, at the…
  35. Complete the sentence about J. R. R. Tolkien with the correct year: Tolkien had one sibling, his younger brother, Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien, who was born on 17 February ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: According to Lewis's ______ memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptized in the Church of Ireland but lost his faith and became an atheist du…
  37. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: In ______ Lewis married the American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45.
  38. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: Lewis died on 22 November ______ of kidney failure, at age 64.
  39. Complete the sentence about J. K. Rowling with the correct year: Rowling conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about J. K. Rowling with the correct year: Following her ______ remarriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business.
  41. Complete the sentence about Arthur Conan Doyle with the correct year: Doyle was born on 22 May ______ at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  42. Complete the sentence about Arthur Conan Doyle with the correct year: In ______, the family scattered because of Charles's growing alcoholism.
  43. Complete the sentence about Arthur Conan Doyle with the correct year: In ______, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place.
  44. Complete the sentence about Arthur Conan Doyle with the correct year: Doyle's father died in ______, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness.
  45. Complete the sentence about Sherlock Holmes with the correct year: The character Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in ______'s A Study in Scarlet.
  46. Complete the sentence about Lewis Carroll with the correct year: In ______ a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
  47. Complete the sentence about Lewis Carroll with the correct year: Dodgson was born on 27 January ______ at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire, the oldest boy and the third oldest of 11 childre…
  48. Complete the sentence about Robert Burns with the correct year: In ______ he was chosen as the greatest Scot by the Scottish public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.
  49. Complete the sentence about Robert Burns with the correct year: On January 26, ______, the day after he was born, Robert Burns was baptised in the Auld Kirk of Ayr by minister William Dalrymple.
  50. Complete the sentence about Robert Burns with the correct year: Burns went on to live in the cottage until Easter ______, when he was seven years old.
  51. Complete the sentence about Robert Burns with the correct year: During the harvest of ______, he was assisted by Nelly Kilpatrick, who inspired his first attempt at poetry, "O, Once I Lov'd A Bonnie L…
  52. Complete the sentence about Robert Burns with the correct year: In ______, he was sent to finish his education with a tutor at Kirkoswald, where he met Peggy Thompson, to whom he wrote two songs, "Now…
  53. Complete the sentence about Dylan Thomas with the correct year: While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara; they married in ______ and had three children: Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm.
  54. Complete the sentence about Dylan Thomas with the correct year: During his fourth trip to New York in ______, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma.
  55. Complete the sentence about Dylan Thomas with the correct year: At the ______ census, Nancy and Dylan are noted as speaking both Welsh and English.
  56. Complete the sentence about Seamus Heaney with the correct year: Heaney was born on 13 April ______ at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, near Castledawson in County Londonderry; he was the first o…
  57. Complete the sentence about Seamus Heaney with the correct year: In ______, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home.
  58. Complete the sentence about Geoffrey Chaucer with the correct year: In ______, in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War, Edward invaded France.
  59. Complete the sentence about John Milton with the correct year: The Restoration of ______ and his loss of vision later deprived Milton of much of his public platform, but he used the period to develop…
  60. Complete the sentence about John Milton with the correct year: John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December ______, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey.
  61. Complete the sentence about William Wordsworth with the correct year: Wordsworth debuted as a writer in ______ when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine.
  62. Complete the sentence about William Wordsworth with the correct year: In ______, he went on a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively and visited nearby areas of France, Sw…
  63. Complete the sentence about Lord Byron with the correct year: Amelia herself died in ______ almost exactly a year after the birth of their third child, the poet's half-sister Augusta Mary.
  64. Complete the sentence about Lord Byron with the correct year: Jack then married Catherine Gordon of Gight on 13 May ______, by all accounts only for her fortune.
  65. Complete the sentence about Percy Bysshe Shelley with the correct year: Shelley was born on 4 August ______ at Field Place, Warnham, Sussex, England.
  66. Complete the sentence about Percy Bysshe Shelley with the correct year: In ______, he entered the Syon House Academy of Brentford, Middlesex, where his cousin Thomas Medwin was a pupil.
  67. Complete the sentence about Percy Bysshe Shelley with the correct year: In ______, Shelley entered Eton College, a period which he later recalled with loathing.
  68. Complete the sentence about Mary Shelley with the correct year: In ______, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married.
  69. Complete the sentence about Mary Shelley with the correct year: In ______, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio.
  70. Complete the sentence about Mary Shelley with the correct year: Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about J. M. W. Turner with the correct year: In ______ he bought a plot of land in Twickenham, where he built a house he named Sandycombe Lodge.
  72. Complete the sentence about John Constable with the correct year: In ______, Constable persuaded his father to let him pursue a career in art, and Golding granted him a small allowance.
  73. Complete the sentence about John Constable with the correct year: Constable together with fellow Farington protégé, Samuel Lane worked closely with Farington to develop their own styles until Faringto…
  74. Complete the sentence about John Constable with the correct year: In ______ Constable undertook a two-month tour of the Lake District.
  75. Complete the sentence about John Constable with the correct year: In ______ he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire s…
  76. Complete the sentence about John Constable with the correct year: In ______, he was commissioned by Major-General Francis Slater Rebow to paint his country home, Wivenhoe Park, Essex.
  77. Complete the sentence about David Hockney with the correct year: In ______ Hockney moved to Los Angeles, where he was inspired to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in the comparatively new…
  78. Complete the sentence about Banksy with the correct year: Banksy directed and starred in the documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop, which made its debut at the ______ Sundance Film Festival.
  79. Complete the sentence about Banksy with the correct year: In January ______, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
  80. Complete the sentence about Tate Modern with the correct year: In April ______ the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern.
  81. Complete the sentence about Tate Modern with the correct year: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the winning architects in January ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about National Gallery with the correct year: The Sainsbury Wing, a ______ extension to the west by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is a significant example of Postmoderni…
  83. Complete the sentence about Royal Academy of Arts with the correct year: The instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December ______, named 34 founder members and allowed for a total memb…
  84. Complete the sentence about Royal Academy of Arts with the correct year: William Hoare and Johann Zoffany were added to this list by the King in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Beatles with the correct year: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Beatles with the correct year: By early ______, the Beatles were international stars and had achieved unprecedented levels of critical and commercial success.
  87. Complete the sentence about Beatles with the correct year: A growing desire to refine their studio efforts, coupled with the challenging nature of their concert tours, led to the Beatles' retirement f…
  88. Complete the sentence about Beatles with the correct year: In ______, the Beatles founded Apple Corps, a multi-armed multimedia corporation that continues to oversee projects related to their legacy.
  89. Complete the sentence about Rolling Stones with the correct year: In ______, they had the double-sided hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on The…
  90. Complete the sentence about Rolling Stones with the correct year: Jones left the band a few weeks before his death in ______, and was replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor.
  91. Complete the sentence about Rolling Stones with the correct year: In ______, the band formed their own record label Rolling Stones Records, for which their famous tongue and lips logo was created.
  92. Complete the sentence about Rolling Stones with the correct year: Taylor left the band at the end of ______ and was replaced by Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood.
  93. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: Sheer Heart Attack later that year and A Night at the Opera in ______ brought them international success.
  95. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: The band's ______ album News of the World contained "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions", which have become anthems at sporting events…
  96. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: In August ______, Mercury gave his last performance with Queen at Knebworth, England.
  97. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: On 23 November ______, Mercury publicly revealed his AIDS diagnosis, and the next day died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS.
  98. Complete the sentence about Queen with the correct year: One more album was released featuring Mercury's vocals, ______'s Made in Heaven.
  99. Complete the sentence about Pink Floyd with the correct year: In ______, Gilmour, Mason and Wright reunited with Waters for a performance at the global awareness event Live 8.
  100. Complete the sentence about Pink Floyd with the correct year: In ______, they were awarded the Polar Music Prize for "their monumental contribution over the decades to the fusion of art and music in t…

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