Chapter 4: Modern Society — Set 2

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all came from Liverpool, where the band formed before finding worldwide fame.

Andrew Lloyd Webber composed both musicals, among the longest-running shows in London's West End and on Broadway.

Gustav Holst wrote The Planets between 1914 and 1916; its Jupiter section also provided the tune for the hymn I Vow to Thee, My Country.

Benjamin Britten was one of the leading British composers of the twentieth century; Peter Grimes, set in a Suffolk fishing community, is his best-known opera.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe fills venues across the Scottish capital each August with thousands of theatre, comedy and music shows.

Most Proms concerts take place at the Royal Albert Hall, and many tickets are sold cheaply for standing places, as Henry Wood originally intended.

Ian Fleming, a former naval intelligence officer, published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953.

Charlie Chaplin, born in London, created the Tramp character and became one of the biggest stars of the silent film era.

Sir Christopher Wren designed the domed St Paul's that still dominates the City of London skyline, completed in the early eighteenth century.

Hockney, from Yorkshire, became a key figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s and remains one of Britain's best-known living artists.

Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould had killed bacteria in his laboratory — the chance observation behind penicillin.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the Web while working at CERN in 1989 and gave the technology away freely, which helped it spread worldwide.

Bonfire Night marks the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, in which Guy Fawkes and his fellow plotters tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

The national service of remembrance is held at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, close to 11 November, honouring those who died in war.

Eid al-Fitr celebrates the end of Ramadan, the month in which Muslims fast during daylight hours, and is marked with prayers, visits and shared meals.

Vaisakhi is the Sikh festival marking the new year and the founding of the Khalsa in 1699.

Most families sit down to roast turkey with stuffing, roast potatoes and vegetables, usually followed by Christmas pudding and mince pies.

Hogmanay is Scotland's famous New Year celebration, marked with parties, fireworks and the singing of Auld Lang Syne at midnight.

Haggis is Scotland's national dish, traditionally served with turnip (neeps) and potatoes (tatties), famously at a Burns Night supper in January.

Loch Ness stretches through the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands and holds more fresh water than all the lakes of England and Wales combined.

Snowdonia National Park covers a large area of north-west Wales and includes Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), the highest mountain in Wales.

You can apply for a licence and drive a car from the age of 17, having passed both a theory and a practical driving test.

Dogs in public must wear a collar with the owner's name and address on it, so that a lost or straying dog can be returned and identified.

The Church of England is England's established church, with the monarch as its Supreme Governor and bishops sitting in the House of Lords; the other UK nations have different arrangements.