Practice test 21

Question 1Not answered

Which of these is a reason a person may not be treated unfairly under UK law?

1. Age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief
2. The type of clothes they choose to wear
3. Their favourite football team
4. The colour of the car they drive

Question 2Not answered

Where must a car be registered?

1. At the police station
2. At the local council
3. At the DVLA
4. At the Post Office

Question 3Not answered

Who became Prime Minister and Britain’s war leader in 1940?

1. Winston Churchill
2. Harold Macmillan
3. Neville Chamberlain
4. Clement Attlee

Question 4Not answered

What were most peasants in the Middle Ages?

1. Serfs, who could not move away
2. Free traders
3. Soldiers
4. Landowners

Question 5Not answered

Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector?

1. His son, Richard
2. Charles II
3. His brother, Henry
4. General Fairfax

Question 6Not answered

Which sport is played at Wimbledon?

1. Tennis
2. Cricket
3. Golf
4. Rugby

Question 7Not answered

Which of these is one of the major political parties named in the handbook?

1. The Green Party
2. The Reform Party
3. The Communist Party
4. The Liberal Democrats

Question 8Not answered

What is the role of the judiciary?

1. Interpreting the law and making sure trials are fair
2. Making all the laws for the country
3. Running all of the police forces
4. Collecting the taxes for the government

Question 9Not answered

At which two battles was the king's army defeated in the Civil War?

1. Marston Moor and Naseby
2. Hastings and Bosworth
3. Culloden and Killiecrankie
4. Trafalgar and Waterloo

Question 10Not answered

Where was the Boer War fought?

1. India
2. Egypt
3. South Africa
4. Australia

Question 11Not answered

By 1200, the English ruled an area of Ireland around Dublin known as what?

1. The Gentry
2. The Danelaw
3. The Ulster Plantation
4. The Pale

Question 12Not answered

Who was the evangelical Christian and MP who played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade?

1. William Wilberforce
2. Admiral Nelson
3. Lord Shaftesbury
4. The Duke of Wellington

Question 13Not answered

Who was in charge of the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar?

1. The Duke of Wellington
2. Captain James Cook
3. Admiral Nelson
4. Sir Francis Drake

Question 14Not answered

Which charity works with older people?

1. Crisis
2. NSPCC
3. Age UK
4. Shelter

Question 15Not answered

Which painter is famous for 'The Hay Wain'?

1. John Constable
2. J. M. W. Turner
3. Thomas Gainsborough
4. William Hogarth

Question 16Not answered

Which group set up the first formal anti-slavery groups in the late 1700s?

1. The Quakers
2. The Puritans
3. The Huguenots
4. The Chartists

Question 17Not answered

What was special about Dolly the sheep, born in Scotland in 1996?

1. She was the first sheep in space
2. She was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell
3. She was born from a frozen embryo
4. She was the first sheep with a human gene

Question 18Not answered

What did British scientists Ian Wilmot and Keith Campbell lead a team to achieve in 1996?

1. The first cloning of a mammal, Dolly the sheep
2. The discovery of DNA
3. The first heart transplant
4. The invention of the MRI

Question 19Not answered

How many men were rescued from the beaches around Dunkirk?

1. About 30,000
2. More than 300,000
3. About 3,000
4. About 3 million

Question 20Not answered

In which year did the English Civil War begin?

1. 1215
2. 1642
3. 1588
4. 1688

Question 21Not answered

How many people died in the Irish famine?

1. About ten thousand
2. About a hundred thousand
3. About ten million
4. About a million

Question 22Not answered

Which of these is illegal in the UK?

1. Arranged marriage with consent
2. Female genital mutilation
3. Wearing religious dress
4. Celebrating religious festivals

Question 23Not answered

What is the biggest stretch of water in the Lake District?

1. Loch Lomond
2. Wastwater
3. Ullswater
4. Windermere

Question 24Not answered

Which sport is the 'Six Nations' championship?

1. Cricket
2. Rugby union
3. Football
4. Hockey