Q.1
If you are coming to the UK from abroad, you will need to make sure that any 'mains' electrical equipment you bring will work all right with our plugs and supply. The pins are rectangular, and our electricity comes at 240 volts AC. What does the 'AC' stand for here?
  • Automatic charge
  • Always constant
  • Automatic current
  • Alternating current
Q.2
Someone who has given important and valuable service to the country might be awarded the OBE : what do these initials stand for, here?
  • Official Best Effort
  • Order of the British Empire
  • Oxford Business Expert
  • Original Brilliance Estimate
Q.3
One of the biggest national organisations is the TUC, which represents the interests of working people across a wide variety of jobs. What do the initials stand for?
  • Totally Universal Club
  • Trade University College
  • Trades Union Congress
  • Training and Upkeep Corporation
Q.4
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English. 'Britain has done more (and better) trade with her neighbouring nations since she became a member of the ... ... '
  • UK
  • US
  • UE
  • EU
Q.5
Meanwhile you go one evening to a public building, where a number of other meetings are being held in different rooms. One of the rooms is signposted, fairly discreetly, 'AA meeting'. What would that meeting be about?
  • Battery-driven equipment ('AA', 'AAA' etc.)
  • The Automobile Association (one of GB's major motorists' clubs)
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • The African Alliance
Q.6
If you see an official notice, or some graffiti, with four letters such as '[X]UFC', what is this likely to be about?
  • A friendly club
  • A furniture company
  • A football club
  • A free chocolate
Q.7
At a rather humbler level, many more British people achieve GCSE qualifications in their mid-teenage years. What do these initials stand for?
  • General Certificate of Secondary Education
  • General Certificate of Satisfactory Education
  • Government Certificate of Satisfactory Education
  • Government Certificate of Satisfied Expectation
Q.8
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English. If you see a PC walking and talking in the street, what does this abbreviation most likely stand for?
  • Personal Computer
  • Parish Church
  • Police Constable
  • Politically correct
Q.9
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English. 'There are so many phone companies in Britain now, but the one that used to be part of the Post Office is now called ... ... .'
  • BP
  • BT
  • TB
  • TGB
Q.10
Pick the best answer to complete the gap/s in clear, accurate and sensible English. If swimmers or boaters need to be rescued from a dangerous situation in the waters around the British Isles, the organisation that will come out to help them is the ...
  • RSPCA
  • RNLI
  • NSPCC
  • RoSPA
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