How many answers can you get right?

[gradus]

I passed. Got exactly18, so providing there weren't too many others on 18 to allow them all, I would just scrape in. Only guessed one (origin of shampooing - ). It's just a cramming test, nothing to do with how familiar applicants are with British life and culture (Trivial Pursuit questions would be just as informative): they just learn the answers to random questions.

Of course but it can serve as a basis for discussion of many aspects of life in the UK. Like most learning the role of the coach/teacher is important in broadening understanding of the subject, not just fact cramming.

[oddoneout]

There is a guaranteed point on question 26, as all four answers are correct.

And I'm sure you could find stained wood, limestone and brick in *York Minster (Q18)...
BTW, what is this Empireire to which answer 23 refers - is it what Rees-Smug feels at the thought of the loss of it or is it what the likes of India feel at having been part of it?

* and why 'the'
I hope the version candidates get has been proof read, unlike the i's version

[HighlandDougie]

Nor those of the Clydesdale Bank, presumably. I got that wrong too - having worked in Scotland for years. But the term 'valid' which they use is confusing. Does it mean 'legal currency' (I would have said True, but they are not 'legal 'tender')? I knew traders in England sometimes refused them, and were within their rights (they can accept or refuse whatever they like).

A subject which gets some of my fellow-Scots frothing at the mouth when someone in Engerland refuses a Scottish banknote (very rarely in my experience). FF is quite right - they are not "legal tender" (nor, indeed, are Bank of England notes) but, presumably along with notes issued by Northern Irish banks, they are legal currency. Not that I know the difference.