TEST 14

In 1815, the French Wars ended with the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellington was known as the Iron Duke and later became Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister (PM) is the leader of the political party in power. He or she appoints the members of the cabinet and has control over many important public appointments.

The World Wide Web, the Turing machine and the hovercraft are British inventions.

In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic.

County Courts deal with a wide range of civil disputes including family matters, breaches of contract and divorce.

Boxing Day is on the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day and is a public holiday.

Those identifying as Sikh also registered a small increase, up from 0.8 per cent (423,000) in 2011 to 0.9 per cent (524,000) in 2021, and Buddhists a similar hike from 0.4 per cent (249,000) to 0.5 per cent (273,000). People identifying as Jewish remained about the same at 0.5 per cent of the population.

In Scotland, serious criminal cases are heard in a Sheriff Court with either a sheriff or a sheriff with a jury. The most serious cases in Scotland, such as murder, are heard at a High Court with a judge and jury.

There are several British overseas territories in other parts of the world, such as St Helena and the Falkland Islands. They are also linked to the UK but are not part of it.

Fleming won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of the penicillin.

Sir Jackie Stewart is a Scottish former racing driver who won the Formula 1 world championship three times.

This statement is true.

The 1960s was a time of technological progress, when Britain and France developed the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner, Concorde.

The UN was set up after the Second World War and aims to prevent war and promote international peace and security.

Proceedings in Parliament are broadcast on television and published in official reports called Hansard. Written reports can be found in large libraries and at http://www.parliament.uk.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, if an accused person is aged 10 to 17, the case is normally heard in a Youth Court in front of up to three specially trained magistrates or a District Judge. The most serious cases will go the Crown Court.

You have to be 18 to go into betting shops or gambling clubs.

The cross of St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland, is a diagonal white cross on a blue ground.

Eid a-Fitr celebrates the end of Ramadan, when Muslims have fasted for a month.

Recent British actors to have won Oscars include Colin Firth, Sir Antony Hopkins, Dame Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Tilda Swinton.

The Great Western Railway was the first major railway built in Britain.

In 1485, Henry Tudor, the leader of the House of Lancaster, became King Henry VII after defeating King Richard III of the House of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

The Prime Minister appoints about 20 senior MPs to become ministers in charge of departments.

Mary Peters was a talented athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon in 1972.