Life in uk society test

official church of scotland

Church of scotland, has moderator that is selected for 1 year

Religious makeup of uk

59% christian 4.8% muslim 1.5% hindu 0.8 % sikh <0.5% jewish 25% atheist

Patron saints days

March 1 (david) march 17 (patrick) april 23 (george) november 30 (andrew)

patron saints holidays

only in northern Ireland and Scotland are these days holidays

New years scotland

Dec 31st called hogmanay and january 2 is also holiday

Two stadiums in UK

Wembley london and principality cardiff

Who helped people to take part in paralympic games in 2012

Dr guttman

Roger bannister

First man who ran a mile under 4 minutes

Jackie stewart

Won the formula 1 championships 3 times

Bobby moore

Captained england team to world cup victory

Ian botham

Captained england cricket team

Jayne torvil and Christopher dean

Won olympic gold medals for ice dancing

Steve redgrave

Won gold in five olympic games for rowing

Tanni thompson

Won 16 paralympic gold medals

Kelly holmes

Won two running gold medals in 2004

ellen macarthur

Fastest person to sail around world single handed

Chris hoy

Scottish cyclist won 11 world championships

David weir

Wheelchair person won london marathon six times

Mo farah

First briton to win gold in 10000 metres run

Jessica ennis hill

Won gold in 2012 heptathlon

Andy murray

Won us open in 2012 and first to win grandslam in years

Ellie simmonds

Youngest member of british team in 2008 won gold in swimming in 2008, 2012 and 2016 paralympic games

Turner prize 1984

An award that Celebrates art shown at Tate Britain

Thomas gainsborough

Famous painter painted people in gardens

David allen

Scottish portrait painter famous work “"Origin of painting”

Josepth turner

Made landscape painting popular

Joseph constable

Lanscape painter. Dedham of vale most famous work

Pre-raphaelites

Group of painters in 19th century that painted religious themes (hunt, millais, rosetti)

John lovery

N Irish painter painted royal family

Henry moore

English bronze sculptor

John petts

Welsh artist known for stained glass paintings

Lucian freud

German born, known for portraits

David hockney

Contributed to the rise of pop art in the 60’s

Robert browning poetry

Talks about england

Lord byron poetry

Describes woman

William wandsworth

Talks about golden daffodils

William blake poetry

talks about tyger

Wilfred Owen poetry

talks about cattle

jane austen

Wrote books about relationships (pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility)

Charles dickens

Wrote books such as Oliver twist and great expectations (mr mcuaber and scrooge)

Robert stevenson

Wrote treasure island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyl and Hyde

Thomas hardy

Wrote about rural life. (Far from the madding crowd and Jude the obscure)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Scottish doctor who wrote sherlock holmes

Evelyn Waugh

Wrote satire novels like Brideshead revisited and Decline, fall and scoop

Kingley Amis

Wrote more than 20 novel. Lucky Jim is his most well known book.

Graham Green

Wrote books based on religious beliefs (Our man in Havana)

JK Rowling

Wrote harry potter books