British Citizenship Test 11

British overseas territories, such as St Helena and the Falkland Islands are linked to the UK but are not part of it.

The currency in the UK is the pound sterling (symbol £).

Diwali is often called the Festival of Lights.

The Enlightenment was a period during the 18th century when new ideas about politics, philosophy and science were developed.

Friends of the Earth is an environmental charity.

The Battle of Britain.

Margaret Thatcher was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK.

After the Norman Conquest, the king and his noblemen had spoken Norman French and the peasants had continued to speak Anglo-Saxon. Gradually these two languages combined to become one English language.

This statement is true.

In 1588 the English defeated the Spanish Armada (a large fleet of ships), which had been sent by Spain to conquer England and restore Catholicism.

The Cenotaph is a war memorial located in Whitehall.

False. The Northern Ireland Assembly has been suspended on a few occasions.

The Queen has important ceremonial roles, such as the opening of the new parliamentary session each year.

William the conqueror sent people all over England to draw up lists of all the towns and villages. The people who lived there, who owned the land and what animals they owned were also listed. This was called the Domesday Book, which gives a picture of society in England just after the Norman Conquest.

The Northern Ireland Assembly can make decisions on issues such as: education, agriculture, the environment health and social services, but it cannot make decisions on immigration or defence issues.

Anyone can make a complaint about the police by going to a police station and writing to the Chief Constable of the police force involved. Complaints can also be made to an independent body: the Independent Police Complaints Commission in England and Wales, the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland or the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

William Wordsworth wrote ‘The Daffodils’.

St Andrew’s day, patron of Scotland, is celebrated on the 30th of November.

Yes. The National Anthem is played at important national occasions and at events attended by the Queen or the Royal Family.

The people of the Iron Age made the first coins to be minted in Britain.

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She set up the women’s Franchise League in 1889, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women. In 1903 she helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). This was the first group whose members were called ‘suffragettes’.

From 1853 to 1856, Britain fought with Turkey and France against Russia in the Crimean War.

It is a criminal offence to sell alcohol to anyone who is under 18 or to buy alcohol for people who are under the age of 18. (There is one exception: people aged 16 or over can drink alcohol with a meal in a hotel or restaurant).