Life in the UK test practice question · True or false
Florence Nightingale became famous as a nurse in the First World War.
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Answer: False
She lived from 1820 to 1910. Her fame came from the Crimean War of the 1850s, when she cared for soldiers at Scutari, in today's Istanbul. In 1860 she opened a school for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital, London.
Checked 8 November 2026