Life in the UK Test — Exam 4 of 24

The Department for Education expects all schools to promote the fundamental British values — democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance — as part of pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

The Peak District was designated in 1951, becoming the first National Park in the UK.

Millicent Fawcett led the Suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who campaigned peacefully, and Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, whose members became known as the Suffragettes. Florence Nightingale was famous for reforming the care of wounded soldiers, and Nancy Astor was the first woman MP to take her seat, in 1919 — a politician, not a leader of the votes campaign.

Wesak is a Buddhist festival celebrating events in the life of the Buddha, so it is not Christian. Good Friday and Easter Sunday are central to the Christian story of Jesus's death and resurrection, and Christmas Day celebrates his birth.

Juries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have 12 members; in Scotland a jury has 15 members.

The shamrock, a three-leaved plant linked with St Patrick, is the symbol associated with Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's national flower.

In the Clearances, Highland landlords removed tenant farmers, many of whom emigrated, to replace small farms with more profitable large sheep runs.

The Cornish pasty comes from Cornwall, and the Eden Project, whose giant domes house rainforest and Mediterranean plants, stands near St Austell in Cornwall. Cheddar cheese is named after a village in Somerset, and the Glastonbury Festival is also held in Somerset.

FGM is a criminal offence in the UK, and it is also illegal to take a girl abroad for the procedure.

Following the Royalist defeat at Worcester in 1651, Charles hid in an oak tree at Boscobel while Parliamentarian troops searched below - an episode remembered in the many 'Royal Oak' pub names.

Working in Cambridge, James Watson and Francis Crick established in 1953 that DNA forms a double helix, drawing on research data produced in London by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins' team.

Civil servants are appointed on merit, serve governments of any party and must remain politically neutral in their work.

The Fenians were Irish republicans who wanted Ireland to become an independent republic; some were prepared to use violence, while others campaigned politically.

Nick Park created Wallace and Gromit at Aardman Animations, using stop-motion clay models. His Wallace and Gromit films have won Academy Awards (Oscars).

The Senedd, the Welsh Parliament, meets in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The Senedd has 60 members, who are elected every four years using a form of proportional representation. (The Senedd expanded to 96 members at the 2026 election.)

Skara Brae on Orkney, off Scotland's north coast, is a remarkably well-preserved Stone Age village that shows how people lived near the end of that period.

Ian Fleming, a former naval intelligence officer, published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953.

Forcing someone to marry — by pressure, threats or deception — is a criminal offence in the UK, and protection orders can be made to keep people safe.

William Caxton introduced printing to England, setting up the country's first printing press at Westminster in about 1476.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the Web while working at CERN in 1989 and gave the technology away freely, which helped it spread worldwide.

In England and Wales you can be summoned for jury service if you are aged between 18 and 70 and on the electoral register. (The upper age limit has since risen to 75, but 18 to 70 is the range the test is based on.)

The Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church, governed through courts of ministers and elders rather than by bishops.

Unlike most countries, the UK has no single written constitution. Its rules come from Acts of Parliament, court judgments and long-established conventions.

Most citizens of the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth aged 18 or over can stand for public office, including as an MP.