UK Citizenship Test

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

Yay! I passed with 13/15 (I missed the medieval workers and English law in Wales).

I’ll have my new passport with fish and chips, please!

I think that, in addition to the test, there are exclusions for certain types. :laughing:

I missed the Black Death question, I thought they’d all died.

I got 10 out of 15 correct. I didn’t bother checking to see which questions I got wrong because I’m a US Citizen. Thank you very much. Thanks for the quiz.

Could you pass on British history?

Of course I could. And I’m sure countless of my British cousins have just as little interest in the subject, too. So is this, like, supposed to be a trick question, or something?

(I suppose it’s not too hard to guess that I took the test. Let’s just say I’m going to be poorer by 50 quid.)

I got 10 of 15 too. Thought I’d do better, cause I love history.

BTW, aren’t youse UK folks ‘subjects’?

We’re both ‘subjects’ and ‘citizens’.

Well, that’s all very convenient.

Yes it is.

I did not do well. Sprague is clearly Germanic and rhymes with Hague but the earliest records of my ancestors with that last name are from Whales. Hopefully I can blame it on my schooling and not some hereditary aversion to English domination.

Isn’t it a pod of whales? So blame it on your podding …

I love a good podding!
Here’s a recipe for a favorite;
http://britishfood.about.com/od/regionalenglishrecipes/r/Pudding.htm

That’s not a recipe for proper spotted dick. The photo says it all - that would be rejected, or maybe even not recognised, by any British schoolkid since time immemorial. That looks more like a roly-poly, only with currants instead of jam. To be spotted dick, it needs to be … well … spotted.

Here’s a better recipe. This one’s proper. :smiley:

There should be an essay question. Please explain your desire to be forever tied to those horrid British comedies on public TV.

Isn’t that the Black Death?

Y U B hate’n? :laughing:

This is good to know. I thought of your surname as being pronounced “sprog”. At least it’s not “spray-ghew”. Like “ague”. Which, BTW, I think ought properly to also rhyme with “Hague”.

It’s always worth a try.

6 of 15, slightly better than random and NATO is not really UK. I do not pride myself for ignorance, but in this case I’ll make an exception.

I wonder how many people outside the US can name what the Monitor fought.

Everyone knows the the Monitor went up against Theseus.
Heres a picture;