27. What’s the capital of Northern Ireland?

Belfast  is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. Most of Belfast, including the city centre, is in County Antrim, but parts of East and South Belfast are in County Down. It is on the flood plain of the River Lagan.

28. When did widespread changes in the uk”s cultural life occur?

Widespread changes in culture of Great Britain happened after 1945. As the most remarkable models of these changes transformation of Liverpool, and then and London, in the centers of world pop culture in the 1960th years can serve. "Beatles" were only very first and the most known of the British rock groups which conquered the world. The British fashion designers of clothes became famous for the vanguard style, and the bright clothes from shops on Karnabi Street and Kingz Road became known far outside London.

29. Which two cities became world centers of popular culture in the uk?

 London became the world's capital of popular culture.

30. What does it mean “Trooping of the Color”?

Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed by regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies. 

31. When do the British Celebrate Mother’s and Father’s Day?

Mother’s day is celebrated on second Sunday in May

Father’s day – second Sunday in June 32. Up to what age does the British educational system offer free of charge compulsory full-time education?

The education system is divided into early years (ages 3–5), primary education (ages 5–11), secondary education (ages 11–18) andtertiary education (ages 18+).

34. Has the educational system been unified throughout the UK?

41. What are the official duties and functions of the monarch?

The British monarchy is one of the older established monarchies in the world, and although it has changed quite a bit in the intervening centuries, the British monarch is still one of the most recognizable world figures. As of 2013, Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of State in Great Britain, and the country’s face. She has the authority over the courts, is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and is the head of the Church of England. As a result, Queen Elizabeth appoints ministers, judges, diplomats, bishops, governors and some officers in the armed forces. She is head of the executive branch of government in Great Britain and must officially assent to a Bill from Parliament in order for it to become a law

42.When was the Labour party actually born? What was it established by?

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. It grew out of the trade union movement and socialist political parties of the nineteenth century and has been described as a broad church; the party contains a diversity of ideological trends from strongly socialist, to more moderately social democratic.

Founded in 1900, the Labour Party overtook the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s and formed minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–31. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clement Attlee. Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan.

43.How did the origins of the Labour party affect its programme and policy?

The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement of the late 19th century, and surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives in the early 1920s. While beginning as a working class movement, it today is largely middle class. In the 1930s and 1940s it stressed national planning, using nationalization of industry as a tool, but it never favoured worker control of industry. Labour has had several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–31. MacDonald and half his cabinet split with the mainstream of the Party and were denounced as traitors. Labour was a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940–1945. After the famous 1945 landslide under Clement Attlee (1945–51) it set up the welfare state with the National Health Service, nationalised a fifth of the economy, joined NATO and opposed the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Under Harold Wilson in 1964–70 it promoted economic modernisation. Labour was in government again in 1974–79, under Wilson and then James Callaghan. Escalating economic crises (the "Winter of Discontent") and battles with labour unions, together with an unpopular anti-nuclear foreign policy, doomed it to Opposition status during the Thatcher years, 1979-1997.

Labour returned with a landslide 179 seat majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair. The party's large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 general election and more substantially reduced to 66 in 2005. Under Gordon Brown it was defeated in the 2010 general election and now forms the Opposition to a Conservative/Liberal-Democrat coalition.

44. What is the role of the Labour party today with regard to changes in British society?

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. It grew out of the trade union movement andsocialist political parties of the nineteenth century and has been described as a broad church; the party contains a diversity of ideological trends from strongly socialist, to more moderately social democratic.

Founded in 1900, the Labour Party overtook the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s and formed minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–31. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clement Attlee. Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan.

The Labour Party was last in national government between 1997 and 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, beginning with a landslide majority of 179, reduced to 167 in 2001 and 66 in 2005. Having won 258 seats in the2010 general election, the party currently forms the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Labour has a minority government in the Welsh Assembly, is the main opposition party in the Scottish Parliamentand has 20 MEPs in the European Parliament, sitting in the Socialists and Democrats group. The Labour Party is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and continues to hold observer status in the Socialist International. The current leader of the party is Ed Miliband.

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