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What British author became famous for writing tales of Victorian Era poverty and excess such as Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities?
Charles Dickens
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lord Byron
William Shakespeare
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What accomplished British actor became world-famous for performing in films like the Hammer horror series Dracula and Frankenstein?
Laurence Olivier
Alec Guinness
Peter Cushing
Robert Gould
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Enigma Variations and Pomp and Circumstance were two of the most notable works written by what British classical composer?
Richard Wagner
Dimitri Shostakovich
Edward Elgar
Edvard Grieg
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John Constable was a painter best known for capturing images of wide rural spaces. What is the term for such a painting?
Orinocos
Dadaisms
Portraits
Landscapes
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A. A. Milne was a British writer known for composing stories about what stuffed bear who lived in the Hundred Acre Wood?
Winnie the Pooh
Corduroy
Paddington
Rupert the Bear
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"A Vision of the Last Judgment," "Auguries of Innocence," and "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion" were all famous works by what British poet?
Lord Byron
Robert Howard
Francis Meyer
William Blake
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Arsenic and Old Lace, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest are all movies starring what British actor?
John Witherspoon
Cary Grant
James Stewart
Gregory Peck
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What is the name of the English musician responsible for the iconic World War Two songs "The White Cliffs of Dover" and "We'll Meet Again"?
Joan Baez
Claudia Fernese
Vera Lynn
Ethel Merman
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Charlotte Bronte wrote what famous story about an orphaned young woman who fell in with the mysterious but debonaire Mr. Rochester?
Sarah Plain and Tall
Jane Eyre
Pippy Longstocking
Wuthering Heights
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Dr. Faustus was one of the most iconic plays written by what British dramatic composers?
Christopher Marlowe
Jonathan Bacon
E. E. Cummings
William Shakespeare
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What British performer became one of the most legendary comedic actors after appearing in works like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, and The Great Dictator?
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
George Hardwell
Marcel Marceau
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"The Naming of Cats" and "The Wasteland" are two of the most prolific poems by what central British Modernist?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Rudyard Kipling
T.S. Eliot
Henry Purcell
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Geoffrey Chaucer is most famous for writing what collection of short stories?
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Leatherstocking Tales
The Spoon River Anthology
The Canterbury Tales
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What partial frontman of The Beatles sang hits like "I Am the Walrus," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and later the song "Imagine" as a solo artist?
John Lennon
George Harrison
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is an example of Francis Bacon's specialty painting three folding panels. What is the term for this type of three-paneled painting?
Triptych
Eisel
Tricorn
Trescartes
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What British film director helped popularize the suspense genre thanks to works like Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo?
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Lean
Stephen King
John Carpenter
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What British actress became a global superstar for portraying Scarlet O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind?
Grace Kelly
Donna Reed
Betty Davis
Vivien Leigh
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The Planets was an influential symphony written by what British composer?
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Gustav Holst
Edvard Grieg
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J.R.R. Tolkien built the modern fantasy genre when he wrote what famous trilogy?
The Wheel of Time
The Wind in the Willows
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lord of the Rings
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The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago were all movies directed by what iconic British filmmaker?
David Lean
Mike Hutchmore
Cecil B. DeMille
Graham Chapman
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What British Baroque composer wrote the operas The Fairy Queen, Dido and Aeneas, and King Arthur?
Sandro Botticelli
Edward Elgar
Henry Purcell
Benjamin Britten
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What deep-voiced British actor starred as the titular monsters in the Hammer horror franchises Dracula and Frankenstein as well as playing the main villain in the 1957 version of A Tale of Two Cities?
Charlton Heston
Christopher Lee
Ian McKellen
Sean Connery
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What famous Shakespeare play opens with the lines, "Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene . . . Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."?
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
The Twelfth Night
Rome and Juliet
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"The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Ulysses" are two of the most famous works by what central British poet?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What British artist and sculptor of the mid-1900s is known for drawing Londoners taking shelter from the Blitz as well as for his sculptures of blobby humanoid forms reclining?
Alan Moore
Henry Moore
Thomas Moore
Rudy Ray Moore
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Mary Shelley is probably best known for writing what classic horror story that was subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"?
Dracula
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein
The Picture of Dorian Grey
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Rebecca (1940), Hamlet (1948), and Spartacus (1960) were movies that starred what British actor who is often considered one of the greatest big-screen performers?
Laurence Olivier
Orson Welles
Richard Burton
Clark Gable
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What famous British mystery writer invented the famous detective known as Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Conan Doyle
G. K. Chesterton
C. S. Lewis
George Bernard Shaw
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Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility were all Regency romances penned by what British author?
Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
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What bassist and co-lead singer of The Beatles provided vocals on the legendary tracks "We Can Work It Out," "Yesterday," and "Eleanor Rigby"?
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
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