Chapter 4: Modern Society — Set 1

Wimbledon, held in south-west London, is the oldest and most famous tennis tournament in the world.

St Andrews in Fife is known worldwide as the home of golf.

Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, solved with Dr Watson, began in the 1880s.

Its stone columns formed from volcanic lava cooling long ago — legend credits the giant Finn McCool instead.

You must be 18 to buy alcohol in a pub, bar or shop in the UK.

Mo Farah's double distance gold was one of the highlights of London 2012.

Diwali, the Festival of Lights, celebrates good over evil and light over darkness.

The Turner Prize is awarded annually to a British visual artist.

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most famous novel; Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë's, Great Expectations is Dickens's.

Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah are festivals in Judaism: Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days, usually in December, and Rosh Hashanah marks the Jewish New Year. Diwali is a Hindu and Sikh festival, and Wesak is a Buddhist festival celebrating events in the life of the Buddha.

Ben Nevis in Scotland, at 1,344 metres (the handbook figure), is the highest mountain in the UK.

Cricket developed in England, its rules were first formalised there in the 18th century, and it remains a traditional English summer sport.

The Premier League sits at the top of English football, and its leading clubs also represent England in European competitions such as the Champions League.

The Ashes is the historic Test cricket series played between England and Australia, dating back to the nineteenth century.

The Grand National, held at Aintree near Liverpool, is a steeplechase — horses jump a series of large fences over a long distance.

England and France are two of the Six Nations, along with Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy. Spain is not one of the competing countries, and Australia — England's opponents in the Ashes cricket series — is not part of the championship either.

Bobby Moore captained England to their World Cup victory in 1966, when the final was played at Wembley.

A heptathlon combines seven track and field events contested over two days, from hurdles and high jump to the 800 metres.

Andy Murray, from Scotland, became the first British man in decades to win a Grand Slam singles title and went on to win Wimbledon twice.

Silverstone in Northamptonshire hosts the British Grand Prix and also staged the very first Formula 1 World Championship race in 1950.

Dr Ludwig Guttmann organised sports for patients with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville in 1948, the seed from which the Paralympic movement grew.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is the central character of one of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

Scrooge is the central character of A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens and published in 1843.

Burns wrote the Scots-language poem Auld Lang Syne in 1788; it is now sung at New Year celebrations in many countries.