Ten questions. Some of these surprise people. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. Alcohol is:
A) A stimulant that speeds you up
B) A depressant that slows your brain and reactions down
C) Not a drug
D) Only a drug if you drink spirits
2. From what age is it legal to drink alcohol at home with parental permission in the UK?
3. What do the UK's Chief Medical Officers advise about childhood drinking?
A) A little is good practice for adulthood
B) An alcohol-free childhood is healthiest, and under 15s should not drink at all
C) Only spirits should be avoided
D) They have no view
4. Why does the same drink affect a 13-year-old more than an adult?
A) It doesn't
B) Smaller body, developing brain, and no learned sense of pacing
C) Teenagers drink faster, that's all
D) Adults have special enzymes children lack entirely
5. Using a fake ID to buy alcohol is:
A) A clever workaround
B) Legal if it looks real
C) Fraud, on top of the alcohol offence
D) Only the shop's problem
6. Police see an under-18 drinking cider in the park. They can:
A) Do nothing, it's a public place
B) Confiscate the alcohol and take them home
C) Only watch
D) Arrest everyone present automatically
7. The "multiplication effect" means alcohol:
A) Makes drinks stronger over time
B) Multiplies whatever is already happening: arguments, risks, bad decisions
C) Doubles your money
D) Only affects some people
8. A friend passes out after drinking. The right move is:
A) Let them sleep it off somewhere quiet
B) Put them on their back to rest
C) Recovery position on their side, call 999, stay with them
D) Take a photo first
9. Why can someone get worse after they stop drinking?
A) They can't, the danger ends with the last drink
B) Alcohol already swallowed keeps absorbing into the blood
C) Only if they drink water
D) Because of the cold
10. How many people your age drink regularly?
A) Everyone
B) Most of them
C) A minority. Most are not drinking
D) All of them by Year 9
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. B. The party image sells alcohol as a stimulant; pharmacology says otherwise. The giggly stage is inhibition switching off, which is exactly why judgement goes early. 2. D. Five. Let the astonishment happen, then use it: the law is not a safety guide, which is why the CMO guidance exists. 3. B. Advice, not law, and a good discussion of why doctors and Parliament drew different lines. 4. B. All three factors matter, and the calibration point explains why teenage drinking so often ends on the ground rather than mildly merry. 5. C. Fraud, with real consequences for the shop too. 6. B. Confiscation powers are routine; pupils often believe the street is a legal grey zone, and it is not. 7. B. The single most useful concept in the lesson, and the one that transfers to every party they will ever attend. 8. C. Drill it until automatic. Add aloud: nobody gets in trouble for calling an ambulance for a friend. 9. B. The pharmacokinetic point behind every "we thought they were asleep" tragedy. 10. C. The normative fact again. The class needs to hear that sober is the majority position, because the loudest voices claim otherwise.