Life in the UK Practice Test 20
Free Life in the UK practice test 20 of 52: 24 questions in the real exam format, drawn from all five chapters of the official handbook. The real test has 24 questions, a 45-minute limit and a pass mark of 18 out of 24 (75%). Tap an answer to check it instantly and read the explanation.
Question 1 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The Bank of England no longer issues £1 notes, although a Scottish bank still does.
The Bank of England stopped issuing £1 notes in the 1980s when the £1 coin took over, although the Royal Bank of Scotland still issues its own £1 notes in Scotland.
Question 2 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The Severn Bore, a famous natural phenomenon in south-west England, is best described as what?
The Severn Bore is a tidal wave created when the rising tide is funnelled into the narrowing River Severn, sending a wave upstream as far as Gloucester and beyond. It is so predictable that surfers gather to ride it.
Question 3 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The River Thames begins its journey at Thames Head, a spring in which English county?
The traditional source of the Thames is Thames Head, near Kemble and Cirencester in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold Hills.
Question 4 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The River Severn, the UK's longest river, rises in which part of the United Kingdom?
The Severn rises on the slopes of Plynlimon in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales, before flowing through Shropshire and Worcestershire to the Bristol Channel.
Question 5 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, holds which distinction among Scotland's freshwater lochs?
At roughly 41 km (25 miles) end to end, Loch Awe is the longest freshwater loch in Scotland. Loch Lomond is larger by surface area, while Loch Ness holds more water.
Question 6 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Since 1859, Loch Katrine in the Trossachs has been famous as the main source of drinking water for which Scottish city?
Loch Katrine has supplied Glasgow with drinking water since 1859, when Queen Victoria opened the aqueduct scheme carrying its water some 25 miles to the city.
Question 7 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Derwentwater, one of the main lakes of the Lake District, lies immediately south of which Cumbrian town?
Derwentwater sits just south of Keswick in Cumbria, in the northern Lake District, and is both fed and drained by the River Derwent.
Question 8 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, are best known for their large colonies of which creatures?
The Farne Islands are a National Nature Reserve famous for tens of thousands of breeding puffins in summer and one of England's largest colonies of Atlantic grey seals.
Question 9 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, is particularly famous for having the largest colony of which bird in southern Britain?
Skomer's Atlantic puffin colony is the largest in southern Britain. The island also hosts around half of the world's breeding population of Manx shearwaters.
Question 10 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
On the Channel Island of Sark, cars are banned. How do people mainly get around the island?
Sark is one of the few places in the world where cars are banned from the roads. Only tractors, bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles are allowed, and the island also has no street lights.
Question 11 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The Queensferry Crossing, which opened to traffic in 2017, carries the M90 motorway over which stretch of water?
Opened in 2017, the Queensferry Crossing carries the M90 across the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, and North Queensferry in Fife. It is the third bridge across the Forth at Queensferry.
Question 12 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The motorway bridge carrying the M4 over the River Severn between England and Wales, previously called the Second Severn Crossing, was officially renamed in 2018. What is its current name?
The Second Severn Crossing, opened in 1996, was officially renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge in July 2018. It carries the M4 over the Severn Estuary between England and South Wales.
Question 13 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Bristol's famous Clifton Suspension Bridge, based on a design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, spans which steep-sided valley?
The Clifton Suspension Bridge crosses the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol with Leigh Woods in North Somerset. It was completed in 1864, after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him.
Question 14 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Newcastle upon Tyne's landmark Tyne Bridge, with its great steel arch, links the city with which town across the river?
The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928, carries the road across the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank and Gateshead on the south bank, and has become a symbol of Tyneside.
Question 15 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Cross Fell, rising to 893 metres in Cumbria, is the highest point of which range of hills?
Cross Fell is the highest point of the Pennines, the chain of hills running down the north of England, and the highest summit in England outside the Lake District.
Question 16 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
A tradition on British coins, dating back to the time of Charles II, means that each new monarch's portrait does what?
By tradition, each new monarch faces the opposite way on coins to their predecessor. Queen Elizabeth II faced right, so King Charles III faces left on his coins.
Question 17 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Which TWO of these are traditional national emblems of Wales?
Choose TWO answers — select both to see the result
The daffodil is the national flower of Wales and the leek is one of its oldest emblems; both are often worn on St David's Day. The shamrock is the symbol of Northern Ireland, and the thistle is the national flower of Scotland.
Question 18 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
All four countries of the United Kingdom share a single time zone.
The whole UK keeps the same time — Greenwich Mean Time in winter and British Summer Time in summer — with no time differences between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Question 19 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
In French, the English Channel is known as 'La Manche'. What does 'la manche' literally mean?
The French call the Channel 'La Manche', meaning 'the Sleeve', because of the way the sea narrows like a sleeve between England and France.
Question 20 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The capital of the Isle of Man is St Helier.
Douglas, on the island's east coast, is the capital of the Isle of Man and its largest town. St Helier is the capital of Jersey.
Question 21 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Which TWO of these are capitals of Crown Dependencies?
Choose TWO answers — select both to see the result
St Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey and St Helier is the capital of Jersey, and both islands are Crown Dependencies. Stanley is the capital of the Falkland Islands, which are a British Overseas Territory, and St Davids is a small city in Wales.
Question 22 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The harbour town of St Peter Port is the capital of which Crown Dependency?
St Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, and the island's main port.
Question 23 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
Stanley is the capital of which British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic?
Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and only town of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Question 24 · Chapter 2: What is the UK?
The remote island group of St Kilda, west of the Outer Hebrides, is remembered for something that happened in 1930. What was it?
In 1930 the final 36 islanders of St Kilda, living on the main island of Hirta, asked to be evacuated and were taken to the Scottish mainland, ending centuries of permanent settlement on Britain's most remote islands.
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