22 short questions and answers on society, based on the official handbook. Read them, then test yourself with the free mock tests.
St David (Wales) 1 March. St Patrick (Northern Ireland) 17 March. St George (England) 23 April. St Andrew (Scotland) 30 November.
11 November. People remember those who died in wars, wear red poppies and keep a two-minute silence at 11am.
Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night), with fireworks. It marks the failure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
Scotland's New Year's Eve celebration on 31 December. 2 January is also a public holiday in Scotland.
Christmas (25 Dec), Boxing Day (26 Dec), Easter, Valentine's Day (14 Feb), April Fool's Day (1 Apr), Mothering Sunday and Halloween (31 Oct).
The Hindu and Sikh festival of light, in October or November. Leicester has a famous celebration.
The Muslim celebration at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.
A playwright and poet (1564–1616). Plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
A novelist (1775–1817). She wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
A Victorian novelist. Books include Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish doctor and writer.
Scotland's national poet. He wrote Auld Lang Syne, sung at New Year.
Describing gravity and the laws of motion.
The theory of evolution by natural selection, in On the Origin of Species (1859).
Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, in 1928.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It went live in 1990/91.
Alan Turing (early computers), John Logie Baird (television), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), Francis Crick (DNA structure).
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt. Jet engine: Sir Frank Whittle. Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell. Cash machine (ATM): James Goodfellow. MRI scanner: Sir Peter Mansfield. First IVF 'test-tube baby' (1978): Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe. Dolly the sheep (1996): the first cloned mammal. Concorde was built with France.
1966, at home in England. It is England's only World Cup win.
Sir Roger Bannister, in 1954.
A rower who won gold medals at five Olympic Games in a row.
1908, 1948 and 2012.