• 1. 
    Formed 50 to 60 million years ago, which structure resulted from successive flows of lava inching toward the coast and cooling when they contacted the sea?

  • Colchester Causeway
  • Rough Island Causeway
  • Giant’s Causeway
  • Passage du Gois
  • 2. 
    Which Welsh county is famous for its castle, which, along with other fortifications built by Edward I, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986?

  • Dryslwyn
  • Gwynedd
  • Carmarthenshire
  • Llansteffan
  • 3. 
    On which site did the Romans found Aquae Sulis, a settlement dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva, an amalgamation of Celtic (Sul) and Roman (Minerva) deities?

  • Basildon
  • Bath
  • Blackpool
  • St. Ives
  • 4. 
    Which natural defensive site was chosen by William the Conqueror as a fortress and bulwark against the Scots?

  • Ely Castle
  • Wells Castle
  • Exeter Castle
  • Durham Castle
  • 5. 
    Which area in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th-century cotton mills?

  • St. Nectan’s Glen
  • Little Langdale Valley
  • Heddon Valley
  • Derwent Valley
  • 6. 
    Which group of more than 70 islands and islets includes Skara Brae, an underground village on the west coast of the island of Mainland?

  • Orkney Islands
  • Isles of Scilly
  • Shetland Islands
  • Hebrides
  • 7. 
    Located in Wiltshire, England, which is one of the largest and best-known prehistoric European sites of the late Neolithic Period?

  • Grime’s Graves
  • Abbotsbury
  • Chichester
  • Avebury
  • 8. 
    Which royal water garden just southwest of Ripon contains the ruins of Fountains Abbey?

  • Buscot Park
  • Studley
  • Wrest Park
  • Chatsworth
  • 9. 
    Prehistoric peoples were active on the chalk uplands of what is now which county, which is a good place to find Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous fossils?

  • Dorset
  • Anglesey
  • Wiltshire
  • Cornwall
  • 10. 
    What palace in Oxfordshire, England, was built by the British Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough?

  • Hampton Court Palace
  • Kew Palace
  • Kensington Palace
  • Blenheim Palace
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