Bonfires, Wimbledon, and chicken tikka masala

Some questions are gifts. They ask 'when is Christmas?' Twenty-fifth of December. Boxing Day is the twenty-sixth. Both public holidays.

March or April. Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays. Many people give chocolate eggs. Christian festival of the resurrection.

Diwali, Hindu and Sikh festival of lights. Hanukkah, Jewish festival of lights. Eid al-Fitr, end of Ramadan for Muslims. Eid ul-Adha. Vaisakhi for Sikhs. They are widely celebrated in the UK.

Fifth of November. Commemorates the failure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes and others tried to blow up Parliament. Britain has been celebrating its survival with fireworks ever since.

Eleventh of November. Already mentioned in history. Honours those who have died serving the country. People wear poppies in the run-up to it.

Football. Always football. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland each have their own national team. Cricket is closely associated with England and was developed there. Tennis, Wimbledon, held in London each summer, oldest tennis tournament in the world.

Both Rugby Union and Rugby League. Golf originated in modern form in Scotland. Horse racing, motor racing, all popular.

William Shakespeare. 1564 to 1616. Greatest writer in English. Hamlet. Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet. Twelfth Night. The test will mention him.

Jane Austen. Charles Dickens. Brontë sisters. Thomas Hardy. J.R.R. Tolkien. J.K. Rowling. For poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer. John Milton. William Wordsworth. Robert Burns of Scotland. Dylan Thomas of Wales.

The Beatles. Rolling Stones. Queen. Adele. Ed Sheeran. Among the classical composers, Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten.

Traditional foods, Sunday roast, fish and chips, full English breakfast, shepherd's pie, afternoon tea with scones.

Always tea. Britain runs on tea. Each nation has specialities, haggis, shortbread and Scotch whisky in Scotland. Welsh cakes and Welsh lamb in Wales. Ulster fry in Northern Ireland. And then chicken tikka masala, a dish so adopted that some call it a British national dish in jest.

Public houses. Long-standing feature of British social life. To drink alcohol there or buy it, you must usually be 18 or over. Driving over the alcohol limit is a serious criminal offence, they may ask you that.