Society Flashcards
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What percentage of the population has a pairent or grandparent born outside the UK?
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10%
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What is the longest distance in the UK?
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John O groats to Lands end - 870 miles.
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What are two major sporting stadiums?
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wembley in London and Millennium staudium in cardiff
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Which famous sports began in britain?
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cricket, football, tennis, golf and rugby
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When were the olympics hosted in london?
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1908, 1948 and 2012
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Who was Sir Ludwig Guttman?
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Helped to originate the Paralympic games in Buckinhamshire.
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Who is Sir Roger Bannister?
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First man to run a mile in under 4 minutes in 1954.
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Who is sir Jackie STewart?
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Won Formula 1 three times
9
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Who is Bobby Moore?
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Captain when England won the world cup in 1966.
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Who is Sir Ian Botham?
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Cricket player
11
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Who are Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
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Won gold medals for ice dancing
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Who is Sir Steve Redgrave?
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Won gold medals in rowing for five Olympic games consecutively.
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Who is Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson?
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Amazing Paralympic Athlete who won the Marathon 6 times and broke 30 world records.
14
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Who is Dame Kelly Holmes?
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Won running medals in 2004 Olympic games
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Who is Dame Ellen MacArthur?
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sailed around the world in 2004
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Who is sir Chris Hoy?
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Scottish Cyclist
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How is David Weir?
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Paralympic athlete who has won the marathon 6 times and six gold medals.
18
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Who is Bradley Wiggins?
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Won the Tour de France and several Olympic medals.
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Who is Mo Farah?
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Won distance gold medals in 2012
20
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Who is Jessica Ennis?
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Won heptathalon in 2012
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Who is Andy Murray?
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Scottish tennis player.
22
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Who is Ellie Simmonds?
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Paralympic swimmer and youngest member of British team.
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What are the Ashes?
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Famous cricket competition between England and Australia.
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When did football first come about?
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19th century
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What is the English Premier League?
Best English football league
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What is the UEFA Champions league?
Union of European Football Associations
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What is FIFA world cup?
The big world cup game. England won in 1966
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What is UEFA Championship?
European football tournament. England never won.
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What are the two different rugby legues?
union and league
30
In rugby, who does Northern Ireland play with?
The Irish republic
31
Who is involved in the six nations championship?
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy
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What is the Super League?
the most well known rugby league competition.
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How old is horse racing in Britain?
Roman times
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Where are there famous horse raceourses?
Royal Ascot, Grand National (liverpool), Scottish Grand National (Ayr).
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Where is there a national horseracing museum?
Suffolk
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How old is golf?
15 century scotland
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Where is the home of golf?
St Andrews
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What is the open championship?
Major golf tournament. It moves around.
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When did tennis come about?
19th century
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Where was the first tennis club?
Lemington Spa in 1872
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Where is Wimbledon held?
All ENgland Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
42
Who was Sir Francis Chichester?
Sailed around the world singlehandedly in 1966.
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Who was Robin Knox-Johnston?
Sailed around the world without stopping.
44
What is Cowes?
Major Sailing Event at the Isle of Wight
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When did motor car racing start in Britain?
1902
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Who are Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button?
Won formula one world championships
47
What are the Proms?
8 week season of classical music organised by the bbc since 1927.
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Who was Henry Purcell?
organist at Westminster abbey and influential composer. late 1600s
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Who is George Frederick Handel?
German composer who became a British citizen. late 1600 early 1700a. Wrote Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Messiah.
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Who is Gustav Holst?
late 1800s early 1900s. Wrote the Planets and adapted I vow to thee my country.
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Who is sir Edward Elgar?
late 1800s early 1900s. Wrote Pomp and Circumstance and Land of Hope and Glory.
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Who is Ralph Vaughan Williams
late 1800s mid 1900s. Wrote music inflenced by folk music.
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Who is William Walton?
early 1900s. Wrote Facade and Belshazzar's Feast
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Who is Benjamin Britten?
Early 1900s to late 1900s. Wrote operas like Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. Also a younge person's guide to the orchestra. Founded Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk.
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Where are large venues for music?
Wembley, 02, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow.
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What are popular festivals?
Glastonbury, Isle of WIght and V.
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What is the National Eisteddfod of Wales?
Welsh cultural festival, including welsh poetry.
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What is the Mercury Music Prize?
Best album from UK and Ireland
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What are the Brit Awards?
awards in a variety of categories
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How long has the Mousetrap been running in the West End?
since 1952. It is by Agetha Christie
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What has Andrew Lloyd Webber written?
The music for Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ superstar and Evita
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What are the Laurence Olivier Awards?
Awards for theatre categories.
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When did British artists become well known?
From 18th c onwards
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WHat are well known galleries?
National Gallery, the two Tates, National museum in Cardiff and national museum in Edinburgh
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What is the Turner Prize
Established in 1984 celebrates contemporary art
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Where are the Turner prize shortlisted entries shown?
Tate Britain
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Who has won the Turner Prize?
Damien Hurst and Richard Wright
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Who is Thomas Gainsborough?
late 1700s portrait painter of country people
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Who is David Allen?
late 1700s Scottish portrait painter. 'The Origin of Painting'
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Who is Joseph Turner?
late 1700 - mid 1800s landscape painter who used a modern style
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Who is John Constable?
late 1700-early 1800s landscape painter particularly of the East of England (Dedham Vale)
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Who were the pre-Raphaelites?
late 1800s. Holman Hunt, Gabriel Rosseti and Sir John Millais
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Who is Sir John Lavery?
late 1800s early 1900s Northern Irish painter who painted royal family
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Who is Henry Moore?
1900s. Abstract bronzes
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Who is John Petts?
1900s Welsh artist known for engravings and stained glass
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Who is Lucian Freud?
contemporary. Portraits
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Who is David Hockney?
contemporary pop artist
78
What are the cathedrals built during the middle ages?
Durham, Lincoln, canterbury and Salisbury
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What is an example or Norman architechture?
White tower in the tower of london built on orders of william the conqueror
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what is an example of a big country house?
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
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Who is Inigo Jones?
designed queen's house in greenwich and Banqueting hall in Whitehall
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Who is Christopher Wren?
Built st pauls cathedral
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Who is Robert Adam?
Scottish architect who designed dumfries house and bath royal crescent
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What is built in the midieval gothic style in the 1800s?
houses of parliament, st pancreas station and town halls in Manchester and Sheffield
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Who was Edwin Lutyens?
designed new delhi, cenotaph at whitehall
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Who are modern British architects?
Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid
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Who is Capabillity Brown?
Landscape designer
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Who is Gertrude Jekyll?
Worked with Edwin Lutyens
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Who is Thomas Chippendale?
furniture designer, 18 c
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Who is Clarice Cliff?
Art deco ceramics
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Who is Mary Quant?
fashion designer
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Who has won the nobel prize in literature?
William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter
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What is the Man Booker Prize?
best fiction author from Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe, since 1968?
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Who has won the Man Booker prize?
Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel and Julian Barnes
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What did Robert Louis Stevenson write?
Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde
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What did Thomas Hardy write?
Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure
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Who is Evelyn Waugh?
wrote decline and fall, scoop, and brideshead revisited
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Who is sir Kingsley Amis?
Wrote Lucky Jim
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Who is Graham Greene?
wrote, the heart of the matter, the honorary consul, brighton and rock and our man in Havana
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what did sir walter scott write about?
poems from scotland and scottish matters
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What did Wilfred Owen and SIgfired Sassoon write about?
WW1
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Who are modern British poets?
Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, John Betjeman and Ted Highes
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When were films first shown in the uk?
1896
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What is a British area of expertise in the film industry?
Special effects
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Who is Alexander Korda?
Famous British film director
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How did films help during world war 2?
Boosted morale
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Who were David lean and Ridley Scott?
Later British directors
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What was the highlight of the film industry in 1950-1960?
Comedies, passport to pimlico, the ladykillers and carry on films
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What is the oldest film studio?
Ealing studios
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Who is nick park?
Animator of Wallace and gromit
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Who are Laurence Oliver, David Niven, Rex Harrison and Richard burton?
Famous British actors
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Which British actors have won oscars!
Colin firth, Anthony Hopkins, judi dench, Kate winslet and tilda Swinton.
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What are the British academy film awards?
British oscars run by bafta.
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What did David lean direct?
Brief encounter and Lawrence of Arabia
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What did carol reed direct!
The third man
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What did frank launder direct?
St tribunals
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What did ken Russell direct!
Women in love
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What did Nicholas roeg direct!w
Don't look now
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What did Hugh Hudson direct?
Chariots of fire
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What did Roland Joffe direct
The killing fields
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What did mike newell direct?
Four weddings and a funeral
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What dud Kevin macdonald direct!
Touching the void
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What was the most famous satirical magazine?
Punch from 1840
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What is an important satirical show in 19602?
That was the week that was
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What is an important satirical show in the 1980s and 1990s?
Spitting Image
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If people have separate rental agreements, how do they pay for their TV licences?
Separately
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Who gets a free TV licence?
People over the age of 75
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Who gets a 50% discount on TV licences?
blind people
129
How are BBC radio stations and TV station funded?
TV licences
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How old do you have to be to buy alcohol in the pub?
18 or over. You can have beer or wine with a meal if you are 16 if they are with someone else who is 18.
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What time do pubs open?
11.00. 12 noon on Sundays
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How old do you have to be to gamble?
18 or over.
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How old do you have to be to participate in the Lottery?
16 or older.
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What do dog owners have to do?
Dogs have to have a collar with name and address of owner.
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When was the National Trust put together?
1895
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WHat is the real name of Big Ben?
Elizabeth Tower
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Who runs Edinburgh Castle?
Historic Scotland.
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What is the largest expanse of fresh water in Mainland Britain?
Loch Lomand
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Who gives Tours at the tower of london?
Yeoman Warders
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Where can you see the crown jewels?
Tower of London
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What is the biggest national park in England?
Lake DIstrict
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Where are serious cases heard?
Crown Court
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Where are serious cases heard in Scotland?
Sherriff court
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How many people are in a jury in England, Wales and Northern Ireland?
12
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How many people in a jury in scotland?
15
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What does the jury do in England, Wales and Northn Ireland?
'guilty' or 'not guilty'
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What is the third verdict in Scotland?
'not proven'
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Who decides the penalty?
judge
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How are young offenders dealt with in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Youth Court for those between 10 and 17. There are three special magistrates or District judge. Serious cases go to Crown Court. Parents are expected to attend hearing.
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What is the children's hearing system?
Scottish youth court
