Pass The Life in UK Test 6

Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the ‘Tour de France’.

The English language has many accents and dialects.

In the UK, you have to be 18 to go into betting shops or gambling clubs.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually for the best fiction novel written by an author from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe. It has been awarded since 1968. Past winners include Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel and Julian Barnes.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has 90 elected members, known as MLAs (members of the Legislative Assembly). They are elected with a form of proportional representation.

You can contact MPs by letter or telephone at their constituency office, or at their office in the House of Commons: The House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A OAA, telephone 0207729 3000.

The Bill of Rights, 1689, confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power. Parliament took control of who could be monarch and declared that the king or queen must be a Protestant.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The British constitution is not written down in any single document, and therefore it is described as ‘unwritten’. This is mainly because the UK, unlike America or France, has never had a revolution which led permanently to a totally new system of government.

During the Victorian period, the British Empire grew to cover all of India, Australia and large parts of Africa. It became the largest empire the world has ever seen, with an estimated population of more than 400 million people..

Bulgaria formed part of the Central Powers during the First World War.

The UK has hosted the Olympic games on three occasions: 1908, 1948 and 2012.

Films were first shown publicly in the UK in 1896 and film screenings very quickly became popular.

Elected members of the Welsh government meet at the Senedd in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.

Southampton is located in England.

The First World War ended at 11.00 am on 11th November 1918 with victory for Britain and its allies.

Florence Nightingale is often regarded as the founder of modern nursing.

In 1833 the Emancipation Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. The Royal Navy stopped slave ships from other countries, freed the slaves and punished the slave traders.

Diwali normally falls in October or November and lasts for five days.

When Queen Anne died in 1714, Parliament chose a German, George I, to be the next king, because he was Anne’s nearest Protestant relative.

The population of the UK in 2005 was just under 60 million people.

The Habeas Corpus Act became law in 1679.

Alexander Fleming was researching influenza (the ‘flu’) in 1928 when he discovered penicillin.