Could you be British?

[Stavros]

The Guardian has printed the questions asked in the citizenship test for the UK. I got 10 out of 10 first go, not because I am a genius but because its so easy!

[Prospero]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/quiz/2012/jul/05/uk-citizenship-test

and yes isn't it easy...

[SammiValentine]

howd you hit 10/10 when theres 15 questions?

Just wondering :)

[Prospero]

Good point Sammi... one of the tests was obviously can you count. You passed and he failed.

[GroobySteven]

12/15 : failed on Population of Black Death (I was close enough I think!), what skilled workers did NOT come to GB and who over-saw the Health Service.

I'm pretty impressed with myself ... all those National Trust visits paid off!

[Stavros]

Weird...the quiz I did had only 10 questions!


1. Which landmark is a prehistoric monument which still stands in the English county of Wiltshire?

Stonehenge
Hadrian’s Wall
Offa’s Dyke
Fountains Abbey


2. What is the name of the admiral who died in a sea battle in 1805 and has a monument in Trafalgar Square, London?

Cook
Drake
Nelson
Raleigh


3. In 1801, a new version of the official flag of the United Kingdom was created. What is it often called?

British standard
Royal banner
St George cross
Union jack


4. Who is the patron saint of Scotland?

St Andrew
St David
St George
St Patrick


5. What flower is traditionally worn by people on Remembrance Day?

Poppy
Lily
Daffodil
Iris


6. Which of these sporting events was hosted in London in 2012?

Commonwealth Games
Cricket World Cup
European Football Championship
Paralympic Games


7. At her jubilee in 2012, how many years as queen did Queen Elizabeth II celebrate?

25
40
50
60


8. The second largest party in the House of Commons is usually known by what name?

Senate
Opposition
Lords
The other side


9. From what age can you be asked to serve on a jury?

16
18
21
25


10. What is the title given to the person who chairs the debates in the House of Commons?

Chairman
Speaker
Leader of the House
Prime minister

[Prospero]

That's a different quiz... how odd.. and even easier than the one i added (assuming it was the one you were talking about).

[GroobySteven]

Weird...the quiz I did had only 10 questions!



Hahahaha - that's the baby one.



1. Which countries make up 'Great Britain'?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Science/pix/2007/07/19/uk_south_4.jpg

England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Wales and England
England, Scotland and Wales

2. Which tribal leader fought against the Roman conquest of Britain?


Hadrian
Boudicca
King Canute
Churchill

3. Which king defeated the Vikings at the end of the 9th Century?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/01/28/Viking_Night_140.jpg

King Alfred the Great
King Canute
King William
King John

4. When did the English first impose English laws on Wales and the Welsh?


The start of the 13th Century
The first half of the 14th Century
The first half of the 15th Century
The first half of the 16th Century

5. Which famous document eventually led to the formation of Parliament in England?


The Domesday Book
The Magna Carta
The Minor Carta
The Carta Majorum

6. Under the feudal system, what were people who worked the land called?


Slaves
Troglodytes
Serfs
Yeomen

7. What proportion of the population of the UK were killed by the Black Death?


A quarter
A third
Half
Three quarters

8. Which kinds of skilled workers did not come to England in large numbers from Europe in the Middle Ages?


Canal builders
Weavers
Carpenters
Engineers

9. Which monarch established the Church of England?


King Henry VII
Elizabeth I
Edward I
King Henry VIII

10. Which monarch was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/11/13/oliver84.jpg

Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I
Henry VII

11. Who was the first Prime Minister?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/3/1338715663274/Jubilee-Decorated-Number--003.jpg

William Wilberforce
Robert Walpole
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone

12. When did potato famine in Ireland lead to great numbers of deaths owing to starvation and disease?


The mid-19th century
The early-17th century
The mid-18th century
The early-20th century

13. Which were the first colonies granted independence by the Labour Party in 1947?


The United States of America
India, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Australia, New Zealand and Singapore
India, Pakistan and Assam (now Sri Lanka)

14. Which British Prime Minister oversaw the introduction of the National Health Service?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/1/10/1326205527741/A-NHS-nurse-with-a-stetho-003.jpg

Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Clement Attlee
Harold MacMillan

15. What does NATO stand for?


North American Treaty Organisation
National Assault and Tactical Organisation
Nations Against Terrorism Organisation
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

[Stavros]

Hmmm..The original link that I provided was to the quiz in today's Guardian, this was removed and replaced by the link in Prospero's post which is from July 2012...curious!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/quiz/2013/jan/27/british-citizenship-test-quiz-new?INTCMP=SRCH

[Merkurie]

I got 9 out of 10 and I'm not even British.

[Prospero]

Actually I deleted our original thread because you posted it twice - but that was after I'd already added the link with questions to this thread (not seeing you'd then added them to your other thread).Oh well.

[Stavros]

Seanchai that is an hypothetical list of questions, which goes to show that when the govt did make a decision, it made it pretty easy. I admit I don't know the answer to No 8 in the alternative list.

[Stavros]

Actually I deleted our original thread because you posted it twice - but that was after I'd already added the link with questions to this thread (not seeing you'd then added them to your other thread).Oh well.

Sorry didn't notice that. Entertaining half hour before the football anyway...!

[Stavros]

I got 9 out of 10 and I'm not even British.

No problem, mate, your passport is on its way...

[Prospero]

Number four in the one Seanchai did was the one that i didn't know.

[flabbybody]

Bronx born. Got 10 of 15. Minor Carta? anyone who chose that should be deported.

[Prospero]

Well the British Prime Minister didn't know what magna Carta stood for when he was quizzed on a chat show a few months back.

[Stavros]

In which city and which century did an Italian become Mayor of a major English city?

[GroobySteven]

In which English city did they hang a shipwrecked French spy ... which was actually the ship's pet monkey?

[Jericho]

In which English city did they hang a shipwrecked French spy ... which was actually the ship's pet monkey?


Heh, Hartlepool...Fukkin monkey hangers!

[Quiet Reflections]

13/15

[Michelle.]

11/15 what is the earliest that the NHS will cover SRS/BA/FFS etc?
I'm also legally blind. How much are the benefits? When do I get my council house?

[Stavros]

Cristoforo Ambrosio liked Southampton so much he married a local woman, changed his name to Christopher Ambrose and became Mayor in 1498. I thought you would all like to know that fact.

[Ecstatic]

8 out of 10 on this one; I hit 10 out of 15 on the other one.

[GroobySteven]

Cristoforo Ambrosio liked Southampton so much he married a local woman, changed his name to Christopher Ambrose and became Mayor in 1498. I thought you would all like to know that fact.


Which town was Chubby Brown the mayor of?

[martin48]

I got 9 out of 10 and I'm not even British.

You are all missing the point. If you get a high mark then clearly you are not fit to be allowed to come to Britain - we don't like smart arses

[surf4490]

Most of Newcastle would fail that test:banana:

[bubbski]

8 out of 15...but I have an excuse, I attended British School.

[steviedresses]

9 out of 15. Had no idea on the which monarch did what. Not bad for an American.

[flabbybody]

most of us Yanks did good. I'm stepping outside for a fag

[Willie Escalade]

most of us Yanks did good. I'm stepping outside for a fag
Dammit I'm not a Yankee...I'm a Dodger.

[irvin66]

"You scored 6 out of a possible 15". hmmmmm...... Ok, I guess I'm not British! :geek:

[JenniferParisHusband]

You scored 14 out of a possible 15

Congratulations! If this was the real British citizenship test you would have passed the 75% mark. Well done you! Feel free to keep your passport.

Woo Hoo!!!

[Prospero]

Smartarse Flabby with his little joke about stepping outside for a fag... but does he know that, in the UK, there are two other meanings to faggots beyond the insulting one ? Firewood and meatballs? See THAT is the kind of stuff you need to know to pass as a spy.

(A frozen food company once, knowingly, advertised their faggots as "great balls of pleasure" A gay German friend of mine almost peed himself in merriment at that).

[Bribi]

I'm pretty sure more than half of the UK people wouldn't do good at these questions.
Come one, who cares what is the name of the tribal leader who did this or that 800 years ago?!

[GroobySteven]

I'm pretty sure more than half of the UK people wouldn't do good at these questions.
Come one, who cares what is the name of the tribal leader who did this or that 800 years ago?!

I guess if I was French I wouldn't give a shit about my history either.:joke:

After all Bodacia did at least try and fight off invading forces.

[Prospero]

C'mon Bribi... tell us all about those real life resistance heroes Asterix and Obelix!

[Odelay]

I'm a bit of an anglophile which is probably how I got 10/15 with a couple of wild guesses thrown in.

[Prospero]

Id love to see a comparable list for the US - with ten or 15 questions that immigrants would need to know for US citizenship.

If it were the republicans devising the list i guess it would be things like "Who won the world series in 1956?" etc....

[GroobySteven]

Id love to see a comparable list for the US - with ten or 15 questions that immigrants would need to know for US citizenship.

If it were the republicans devising the list i guess it would be things like "Who won the world series in 1956?" etc....

Actually the US do one - and it's not particularly easy at all. It is multiple choice though of four answers and you do need 25% right to get citizenship.

[Prospero]

Probably most western nations facing a sizeable immigrant influx have some sort of hurldles in place.

[Stavros]

Which town was Chubby Brown the mayor of?

Although I am tempted to say Cuckoo's Knob (in Wiltshire) Brown is from somewhere up north so I am guessing
Slack Bottom, near Hebden Bridge in Yarksheer.

[Jericho]

Royston Vasey?

[SammiValentine]

i got 10/10 on the baby one.

12/15 on the bigger one hahah bit of luck in there though i think, fuck knows exact centuries.. lmao

[GroobySteven]

Royston Vasey?

Win!!!

[GroobySteven]

How about where was Frederick Bumble the mayor?

[martin48]

http://realcitizenshiptest.co.uk/quiz.php?n=1

Try the real British test here!

[SammiValentine]

hahahahh x

[irvin66]

Shit I fucked the drawbar again! :pissed:

[Prospero]

I got nine out of ten on that one Martin. I think it was the ant and dec one that got me.

[Stavros]

How about where was Frederick Bumble the mayor?
Fircombe, in Carry on Girls, so it isn't a real town, and Frederick Bumble isn't a real person.

[Stavros]

http://realcitizenshiptest.co.uk/quiz.php?n=1

Try the real British test here!

I got 8/10 -I can't tell the difference between Ant and Dec, whoever they are, and I don't know what DFS is without googling it.

[SammiValentine]

I got 8/10 -I can't tell the difference between Ant and Dec, whoever they are, and I don't know what DFS is without googling it.


hahaha i struggle with which is which., DFS is deffo sofas though, that twatty advert thatd be on every xmas when your sat round the telly with family....x