Question: What language do most historians agree upon where the Greek names for the British Isles came from?
Answer: native Celtic-language

Question: What did the ancient Greeks call the people that lived in the British Isles?
Answer: Πρεττανοί (Priteni or Pretani)

Question: What did name did Claudius Ptolemy (Greco-Egyptian scientist) use for Ireland?
Answer: little Britain (μικρής Βρεττανίας - mikris Brettanias)

Question: In later writings, what did Claudius Ptolemy called the British Isles?
Answer: Alwion, Iwernia, and Mona

Question: After the Romans conqured the British Isles what became the more common name for the country?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What is the earliest English usage of the term Brytish Illes?
Answer: a work by John Dee

Question: When was this Brytish Illes name used in the English language by John Dee?
Answer: 1577

Question: What is another name that is used for the British Isles?
Answer: Anglo-Celtic Isles

Question: What is the common term that the Government of Ireland uses when documents are written jointly with the British?
Answer: "these islands

Question: When did the Caledonian Orogeny occur?
Answer: c. 488–444 Ma and early Silurian period

Question: What formed after the craton Baltica and the terrane Avalonia collision?
Answer: mountains and hills

Question: What happened during the c. 488–444 Ma and early Silurian period?
Answer: craton Baltica collided with the terrane Avalonia

Question: What formed the hills of Munster and the southern part of Wales?
Answer: Variscan orogeny

Question: In which direction have the British Isles been drifting?
Answer: northwest

Question: What was the most recent glaciation that has shaped the British Isles?
Answer: Devensian

Question: What happened with the Devensian glaciation ended?
Answer: the English Channel flooded

Question: When did sea levels reach their current highth?
Answer: 4,000 to 5,000 years ago

Question: What covered the sea between Ireland and Great Britian during the last glacier?
Answer: a single ice sheet

Question: What is the longest river in Ireland?
Answer: the Shannon

Question: Where are other mountain areas in the British Isles?
Answer: Wales and parts of Ireland

Question: Where is the highest point in the British Isles?
Answer: Ben Nevis

Question: What is the lowest elevation in the British Isles?
Answer: Holme, Cambridgeshire at −2.75 m

Question: What is the weather like in the summer time in the British Isles?
Answer: mild and also wet

Question: Which continent has similar plant and animal life as the British Isles?
Answer: European continent

Question: In Ireland where does the native animal and plant species mostly come from?
Answer: Europe, and Great Britain

Question: When did the land bridge between Ireland and Britain disappear?
Answer: about 8,000 years ago

Question: When did the last Ice Age end in the British Isles?
Answer: about 12,000 years ago

Question: When did the clearing of swamp land and forests begin in the British Isles?
Answer: around 6000 BC

Question: When did the clearing of the swamp land and forest begain to rapidly increase?
Answer: medieval times

Question: Why was Britain able to keep its ancient forests longer than Europe?
Answer: due to a small population

Question: When did lumber shortages start to occur in Britain?
Answer: 17th century

Question: What are three of the most typical type of tress that can be found in Ireland?
Answer: oak, ash, wych elm

Question: Which two animals became extinct in the British Isles?
Answer: wolf, bear

Question: Which species of deer is protected in the British Isles?
Answer: red deer

Question: How many bird species does the British Isles have?
Answer: Over 200 species of bird

Question: What are three of the most common birds in the British Isles?
Answer: chaffinch, common blackbird, house sparrow

Question: What kinds of fish are abundent in the British Isles?
Answer: salmon, trout, perch and pike

Question: Which snakes are considered native to the British Isles but not Ireland?
Answer: European adder, the grass snake and the smooth snake

Question: What is the name of the slug that is native to both Britain and Ireland?
Answer: Kerry slug

Question: Is the grass nake or the smooth snake native to Ireland?
Answer: none are native to Ireland

Question: What type of wild life are not native to Ireland but are in Britain?
Answer: water voles, roe deer and common toads

Question: Which area in the British Isles is s the most populated?
Answer: England

Question: What percentage of the population does England have compared to the other areas in the British Isles?
Answer: 80%

Question: What is the most populated city in Ireland?
Answer: Greater Dublin Area (1.1 million)

Question: How many people live in the area of London?
Answer: 9 million

Question: What are two other major populated cities in England?
Answer: Greater Manchester Urban Area (2.4 million), West Midlands conurbation (2.4 million)

Question: Which two areas in the British Isles hasn't experienced a large population growth in the last one hundred years?
Answer: Scotland and Wales

Question: How does Ireland's population compare to the rest of the British Isles?
Answer: less than one tenth of the population of the British Isles

Question: How long did the Great Irish Famine cause a population decline in Ireland?
Answer: century-long population decline

Question: How large is the Irish diaspora that was caused by the Great Irish Famine?
Answer: fifteen times the current population of the island

Question: How many groups do these languages belong to?
Answer: six groups

Question: What are the three Insular Celtic languages?
Answer: Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic

Question: What are the remaining Cetic languages that are still used today?
Answer: Cornish, Welsh and Breton

Question: Which cant is often used by Irish Travellers?
Answer: Shelta

Question: What mainland was the British Isles once connected to?
Answer: European mainland

Question: When did the British Isles area become separated from the European continent?
Answer: two to four millennia

Question: When sea levels rose what occured in the British Isles area?
Answer: separating Ireland from Great Britain

Question: What happened to British Isles area when the ice melted after the last ice age?
Answer: sea levels rose

Question: Did Britain become populated with people again before or after the ice came to an end?
Answer: before the ice age ended

Question: The people that lived in the British Isles during the Roman Empire era spoke which language?
Answer: Celtic dialects of the Insular Celtic group

Question: What was the name of the wall that the Romans built to mark their northern territory in the British Isles in 122AD?
Answer: Hadrian's Wall

Question: During the Roman Empire occupation in the British Isles, what was the name of the people that lived in Ireland?
Answer: Hiberni

Question: The northern area of Great Britain was populated by what native people during the Roman Empire occupation?
Answer: Picts

Question: What was the name of the native people that lived in the southern parts of the British Isles during the Roman Empire occupation?
Answer: Britons

Question: Which people arrived in the British Isles when the Roman Empire's power was diminishing?
Answer: Anglo-Saxons

Question: What area did the Anglo-Saxons begin to dominate in the British Isles?
Answer: southern Great Britain

Question: What happened to the British Isles and Europe after the Roman Empire ended?
Answer: the Dark Ages

Question: What era did Ireland enter when the Roman Empire ended?
Answer: golden age

Question: What did the Irish build during the Golden Age?
Answer: monasteries and universities

Question: When did Viking invasions begin in the British Isles?
Answer: 9th century

Question: What is one area where the Vikings created a permanent settlement in the British Isles?
Answer: east coast of Ireland