Leisure, landmarks and British inventions

This quiz covers two parts of the Life in the UK syllabus that none of the other materials in this category reach: the scientists and inventors the country is proud of, and the places people visit in their free time.

The first five questions are about discoveries. Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park and laid the foundations of computing. Alexander Fleming found penicillin in 1928. Francis Crick and James Watson worked out the double helix of DNA at Cambridge in 1953, building on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. John Logie Baird demonstrated television in the 1920s. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The distractors are real British inventions too, among them the jet engine, the hovercraft, the cash machine and radar, and the explanations say who was behind each one. By the end you know a dozen inventions, not five.

The second part is about leisure and landmarks across the four nations. It covers the National Trust, a charity rather than a government body; what a national park is, with people living and farming inside it; the Eden Project's domes of plants in Cornwall; Eryri, the national park of north Wales that now officially uses its Welsh name; Loch Lomond in Scotland, the largest lake on the island of Great Britain; the Giant's Causeway and its volcanic columns on the Northern Ireland coast; and Big Ben, which is strictly the bell, while the tower has been the Elizabeth Tower since 2012. A last question on food puts Welsh cakes beside haggis, the Ulster fry and Yorkshire pudding, one dish for each nation.

The material is a quiz of thirteen questions, each with an explanation. It covers part of one chapter and is not a mock test of the whole syllabus. The questions and explanations are Zestly's own and no handbook text is reproduced.

• Say what Turing, Fleming, Crick and Watson, Baird and Berners-Lee are known for
• Name other British inventions and their inventors from the explanations
• Explain what the National Trust and the national parks are
• Place the Eden Project, Eryri, Loch Lomond and the Giant's Causeway in the right nation
• Say what 'Big Ben' strictly refers to and name a traditional dish of each nation

Practice material written by Zestly from publicly known facts about British science, inventions and landmarks. No text is taken from the Life in the UK handbook.