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Life in the UK: People and Numbers

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Number of questions in the Life in the UK test
24 multiple-choice questions.
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Time allowed
45 minutes.
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Pass mark
18 out of 24 (75 per cent).
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Test fee
£50 to book online.
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Number of MPs
650 in the House of Commons.
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Size of the House of Lords
About 800 members.
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Bishops in the Lords
26 Church of England bishops.
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Members of the Scottish Parliament
129 MSPs.
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Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
90 MLAs.
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Maximum time between general elections
Five years.
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Voting age (general election)
18, according to the handbook.
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Jury size in England and Wales
12 people.
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Jury size in Scotland
15 people.
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Age of criminal responsibility in England
10.
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Age of criminal responsibility in Scotland
12.
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Emergency number
999.
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Non-emergency NHS advice
111.
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Motorway speed limit for cars
70 mph.
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Built-up area limit for cars
30 mph.
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Age to drive a car
17.
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Age to buy alcohol
18.
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Age to leave full-time school
16.
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Population of the UK (handbook)
About 64 million.
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Highest mountain in the UK
Ben Nevis, Scotland.
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Highest mountain in Wales
Snowdon.
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Largest lake in the UK
Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland.
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Longest river in the UK
The Severn.
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St David's Day
1 March (Wales).
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St Patrick's Day
17 March (Ireland).
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St George's Day
23 April (England).
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St Andrew's Day
30 November (Scotland).
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Burns Night
25 January.
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Bonfire Night
5 November.
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Remembrance Day
11 November.
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister from 1940 who led Britain in the Second World War.
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Clement Attlee
Labour Prime Minister from 1945; the NHS was founded under him.
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Margaret Thatcher
First female Prime Minister, 1979.
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Sir Robert Walpole
Regarded as the first Prime Minister.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Suffragette leader.
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Florence Nightingale
Nurse in the Crimean War.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer of the Great Western Railway and SS Great Britain.
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin in 1928.
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William Wilberforce
Led the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade.
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Charles Darwin
Wrote On the Origin of Species, 1859.

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