Poll: UK Citizenship Quiz
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10/24, and I still lived in Liverpool for 2 years.
Yeah, seems I won't become British anytime soon.
Yeah, seems I won't become British anytime soon.
Maybe you should make your own thread and see if Americans can actually do better than us Brits...you've sort of missed the point.TheVioletBandit said:
One day they're going to mix up the test papers and no-one will be able to tell the difference. Although the concept of being tested on The Simpsons to enter a country is cool, I bet most people here would do better on that than this.Flatfrog said:
12 out of a possible 24
I say, old chap, that was quite a hard test, was it not? Almost dropped my invisible monocle halfway through!
Clearly, statistics and historic titbits you wouldn't even hear in a British history class are the most important things if you want to be a UK citizen...
I hear the Canadian is much easier. They shove you in the waiting area and if you say "I'm sorry" you're in.
Learned that one from How I Met Your Mother.
I say, old chap, that was quite a hard test, was it not? Almost dropped my invisible monocle halfway through!
Clearly, statistics and historic titbits you wouldn't even hear in a British history class are the most important things if you want to be a UK citizen...
I hear the Canadian is much easier. They shove you in the waiting area and if you say "I'm sorry" you're in.
Learned that one from How I Met Your Mother.
second point, my school skipped over the change from Catholicism to Protestantism. we just sort of jumped from Mary Queen of Scots to the Jacobites.Jamash said:
and i wasnt calling British history bullshit, i was calling the questions bullshit. as in, they have no real use in average life. evidence: i got 8 right and have lived here for all my life. also, pretty hard for me to study British history when i have too much work learning about Russian history.
about the first point: Lowland Scots is a dialect, not a language. It's a form of english. for example:
"I went to the shops." English
"Ah wenty the shoaps." Scots
"Chuaigh mé go dtí na siopaí." Irish Gaelic
and Scottish Gaelic is a similar language. It isnt called Ulster Scots though. It's Gaelic.
and the connection would be the Celts.
9 out of 24 - UK citizen.
This test is ridiculous, I have no idea how they can think this is a fair way of checking to see if someone's fit to enter the country, in my opinion, if they can work, and can speak enough English to hold a conversation, they are fine.
This test is ridiculous, I have no idea how they can think this is a fair way of checking to see if someone's fit to enter the country, in my opinion, if they can work, and can speak enough English to hold a conversation, they are fine.
8... well, obviously the test is broken, lol. As a British citizen, if they want us to know crap about recruitment centres in the West Indies decades ago, might I humbly suggest they add them to the history lesson syllabus? I mean, it's not like it comes up in conversation.
Also, "quango"? I thought that was just some bullshit term like the US's "Tsar" that just suddenly starts appearing in papers without any explanation and everyone doesn't ask what it means cos they don't want to look foolish (still got it right though
This is definitely the way it should be - how can you integrate with the British if you don't understand us? All that bullshit trivia, obtuse general knowledge and statistics are pointless if what you want are people who respect/understand what it means to be British, soggy and stoical!
Also, "quango"? I thought that was just some bullshit term like the US's "Tsar" that just suddenly starts appearing in papers without any explanation and everyone doesn't ask what it means cos they don't want to look foolish (still got it right though
Because it's too good not to keep being quotedThe_root_of_all_evil said:
This is definitely the way it should be - how can you integrate with the British if you don't understand us? All that bullshit trivia, obtuse general knowledge and statistics are pointless if what you want are people who respect/understand what it means to be British, soggy and stoical!
Failed with 14/24 and I'm from the UK.
I was not expecting a strange and irrelevant history test, with some oddly specific general knowledge questions thrown in. I don't see how anyone would pass that without having known the specific subjects of the questions before hand.
I was not expecting a strange and irrelevant history test, with some oddly specific general knowledge questions thrown in. I don't see how anyone would pass that without having known the specific subjects of the questions before hand.
12/24
Some of those questions are kind of obtuse though.
7) Yay! I admit to being a slave to answer d). Therefore I am the perfect Brit!
But don't drink tea... Therefore I am a failure as a Brit.
BUT! I do know how to queue. And I know how to do it with style while always knowing where my towel is! Therefore.... I'm not sure...
Some of those questions are kind of obtuse though.
4) Are any newspapers in any country ever been classed as quality?The_root_of_all_evil said:
7) Yay! I admit to being a slave to answer d). Therefore I am the perfect Brit!
But don't drink tea... Therefore I am a failure as a Brit.
BUT! I do know how to queue. And I know how to do it with style while always knowing where my towel is! Therefore.... I'm not sure...
"A language is merely a dialect with an army and navy" - Max WeinreichTrilbyWill said:
I'm not a student of languages or their history, but my understanding is that Scots did not develop from English, they are similar languages that evolved in parallel.
And Ulster Scots has nothing to do with Gaelic.
14 out of 24. Failed, but proud.
That test is even more moronic than the American one. What the fuck does trick or treating have to do with citizenship, for one?
I scored 8 out of 24 and I've never been to the UK. Of course it was (mostly) guesswork.
I scored 8 out of 24 and I've never been to the UK. Of course it was (mostly) guesswork.