Practice Test 8

Question 1

Most shops in the uk are open

Answer 1

7 days a week with reduced hours on sunday

Question 2

How are MPs elected?

Answer 2

First past the post

Question 3

2 responsibilities of MPs

Answer 3

Representing everyone in their constituency and scrutinising and commenting on what the government is doing

Question 4

Do Northern Ireland and Scotland have their own banknotes?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Northern Ireland ‘individual registration’

Answer 5

Everyone entitled to vote must complete their own vote registration form

Question 6

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Answer 6

Famous engineer who built railway, bridges, tunnel, ships

Question 7

You need to pay tax on… (2)

Answer 7

Income, and property/savings/dividends

Question 8

By joining a political party, you might… 2

Answer 8

Handing out leaflets, knocking on people’s doors asking for support

Question 9

2 great Scottish thinkers of the enlightenment

Answer 9

Adam Smith, David Hume

Question 10

Longest serving prime minister of the 20th century

Answer 10

Margaret thatcher

Question 11

When did agriculture and manufacturing of goods become mechanised?

Answer 11

Industrial Revolution

Question 12

In 1999, what happened to hereditary peers in the House of Lords?

Answer 12

They lost their automatic right to attend the House of Lords

Question 13

A role of school governors?

Answer 13

Setting strategic direction of school

Question 14

British writers who won Nobel prize in literature?

Answer 14

William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter