London’s west end is also known as ‘Theatreland’.

The Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory is located in the South Atlantic.

During the Bronze Age people lived in roundhouses and buried their dead in tombs called round barrows.

The British attack of the Somme in July 1916, resulted in about 60,000 British casualties on the first day alone.

Proceedings in Parliament are broadcast on television and published in official reports called Hansard.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were the parents of Elizabeth I.

Europe’s longest dry ski slope is located near Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh Festival takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, every summer. It is a series of different arts and cultural festivals, with the biggest and most well-known being the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (‘the Fringe’).

The cross of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, is a diagonal red cross on a white ground.

British film studios flourished in the 1930s.

The people of the Iron Age made the first coins to be minted in Britain, some inscribed with the names of Iron Age kings.

The cabinet is a committee which usually meets weekly and makes important decisions about government policy.

Between 1870 and 1914, around 120,000 Russian and Polish Jews came to Britain to escape persecution.

The open championship is the only ‘Major’ tournament held outside the United States and it is hosted by a different golf course every year.

NATO stands for The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

This statement is TRUE.

According to the Citizenship Survey carried out in the UK in 2009, less than 0.5% of people identify themselves as Jewish.

Selling or buying drugs such as heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis is a criminal offence in the UK.

The Turing machine is a theoretical mathematical device invented by Alan Turing, a British mathematician, in the 1930s.

The Vikings came from Denmark and Norway.

The National Trust was founded in 1895 by three volunteers.

You will receive a fine up to £1,000 if you watch TV but do not have a TV licence.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually for the best fiction novel written by an author from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.

The official name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ‘Great Britain’ refers only to England, Scotland and Wales, not to Northern Ireland.