10 short questions and answers on songs & poems, based on the official handbook. Read them, then test yourself with the free mock tests.
It is the national anthem, played at national occasions, royal events and major sporting events. The words were written in the 1700s.
At midnight on New Year's Eve, especially at Hogmanay in Scotland, with people holding hands in a circle. Robert Burns wrote the words.
'Land of Hope and Glory' (music by Edward Elgar, from his Pomp and Circumstance Marches), 'Rule, Britannia!' (music by Thomas Arne) and 'Jerusalem'. The audience waves flags and sings along.
A poem by William Blake, set to music by Hubert Parry. It begins 'And did those feet in ancient time'. It is sung at the Last Night of the Proms and at sporting and national events, and is sometimes called England's unofficial anthem.
Lines from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon (1914) are read: 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old'. A bugler plays the Last Post, and there is a two-minute silence at 11am. The poppy symbol was inspired by the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae.
Handel's 'Zadok the Priest', written for the coronation of George II in 1727 and sung at every coronation since.
Yes. Wales sings 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' ('Land of My Fathers') at national and rugby events. Scotland sings 'Flower of Scotland' at sporting events.
'Abide with Me', a tradition since 1927.
25 January, Robert Burns's birthday. People in Scotland and around the world hold Burns suppers with haggis and read his poem 'Address to a Haggis'.
Christmas carols are sung in churches, at concerts and by carol singers going from door to door. Many people go to church on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.